Chapter 109: The Audience in a Dilemma

Wireless put "Dragon Babu" on the air, and after Qiu Degen learned the news, he also asked ATV to advance the broadcast date of "The Peerless Double Pride", but when he arrived at Lin Xi, he refused on the grounds of violating the contract.

Considering that a direct refusal might refute Qiu Degen's face, Lin Xi also deliberately gave a reason of "first arrogant and then frustrated", and then explained the matter smoothly.

"Dragon Babu" started broadcasting a week earlier than "The Peerless Twins", and the ratings have steadily stood at 50%, and the momentum of continuing to rise is very strong.

The current ratings of "Tianlong Babu" are a little not embarrassing, and one step further can catch up with the ratings record set by "Chu Liuxiang", even if it is just a temporary catch-up, but "The Peerless Double Pride" was broadcast at this time, not to mention the ratings of this TV series, just doing so is enough to make wireless feel uncomfortable.

If you are far away from catching up, wireless may not be very disappointed, but when the goal is about to be achieved, it is suddenly stirred up, and this feeling is the worst.

Lin Xi's side definitely didn't mean it, because if the wireless side didn't raise "Dragon Babu", the broadcast time of the two TV series would actually be about the same, but the wireless side would not think so, and all the high-level executives agreed that Lin Xi was deliberate, and this was done to make wireless unhappy.

If the ratings of "Dragon Babu" are surpassed by "The Peerless Double Pride", then this wireless will really be disgraced.

In order to prevent such a thing from happening, Shao Yifu personally made the decision to change the number of episodes broadcast by "Dragon Babu" every day from two episodes to three episodes, and moved the broadcast time back half an hour.

This trick is a bit like when Li's TV broadcast some scattered unit dramas at 8 to 9 o'clock in the evening, so she arranged for "Silkworm Transformation" to be broadcast continuously every day from Monday to Friday, and the ratings were on fire, forcing Wireless to re-arrange.

Now, this trick has been reversed to the ATV.

After the broadcast time is advanced, those viewers who have already started to watch "Dragon Babu" may not go to watch "The Peerless Twins" on the other side, and the viewers who are waiting to watch "The Peerless Twins" may also change the channel to the wireless side if they turn on the TV in advance.

As a result, ATV was completely cornered.

Qiu Degen, who heard the news, was furious and smashed the cup directly in the desk.

"It's just too deceitful!"

Looking at the broken porcelain teacups on the floor, Xu Xiaoming's eyelids sitting on the sofa couldn't help but tremble, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Lin Xi who was sitting next to him, and saw that he still had a breezy expression, so he was a little settled.

"Uncle Gen, you dissipate your anger first, Wireless is doing this just to kill us, but we can't just be slaughtered by others, they can advance the broadcast time of the TV series, we can do the same, they can broadcast three episodes in a row, we can also broadcast three episodes in a row......"

Before Xu Xiaoming finished speaking, Lin Xi next to him interrupted and said: "Manager Xu, I don't agree with what you say, the current audience is basically familiar with the habit of watching TV series at eight o'clock, how many people will really turn on the TV in advance because of watching a TV series?" They don't work, they don't eat, they don't do anything else?

Again, both TV series are filmed and broadcast at the same time, I don't know how the filming progress of "Dragon Babu" is now, but three episodes a day will definitely put a lot of pressure on the crew, either because there is not enough time to shoot, or it is shoddy in order to be in a hurry, no matter what the result is not a good thing for the TV series itself. Doing this looks like a big threat to us, but it's actually a stupid move, and it would be really stupid for us to follow them if we didn't care about it. ”

The expression on Qiu Degen's face was uncertain, and he couldn't tell what he was thinking.

Seeing that Qiu Degen didn't speak, Xu Xiaoming had no choice but to ask Lin Xi again: "Then we just watch and don't have to do anything?" ”

Lin Xi's answer was very simple: "It's not that you don't have to do it, but you can't do it!" ”

This time, Qiu Degen finally couldn't help it, and directly asked Lin Xi why.

"It's very simple, I just said that this is a stupid trick of wireless, but in fact, it may also be a trap set by the other party for us, when we adjust the broadcast time and the number of episodes to be consistent with wireless, what should we do if we advance the time and increase the number of episodes? If you stubbornly fight each other to the end, ATV's current family background will definitely not be able to fight wireless, and the final loser will only be us. ”

Qiu Degen understood as soon as he heard this.

"What does Lin Sheng mean to respond to all changes with the same?"

Lin Xi shrugged his shoulders and said that only this is the most beneficial for ATV now.

Qiu Degen thought about it for a while, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, then according to what Lin Sheng said, it's the same!" ”

ATV and wireless each set their own strategies, but left the problem to the audience in front of the TV, the broadcast time of the two TV series completely overlapped, and now the average family has only one TV, if you want to watch this one, you can't watch the other, and the opinions of many families are very difficult to unify.

In order to protest the actions of the two television stations, many viewers have written to the Hong Kong Government Communications Department to complain, asking the two television stations to stagger the broadcast time of the TV series.

Due to the large number of protest complaints received, the Communications Department of the Hong Kong Government had no choice but to call representatives of the two television stations to negotiate, but both TVB and ATV directly refused, saying that this was a normal business arrangement of the TV stations, and there was no illegal operation, and the Communications Department had no reason to intervene.

When mediation failed, the Communications Office had no other recourse and could only ignore further complaint letters.

The media has mixed reviews about this matter, and on the premise of knowing that this kind of thing will never be changed, everyone is obviously more concerned about who will win after the two TV series collide so hard.

After all, before the filming of the two TV series started, all kinds of gambling games and handicaps had been opened, and now it was time to find out.

Seeing that a ratings war is coming, even the news that a number of cultural figures, including Jin Yong and Lin Shu, organized a group to visit the mainland has not attracted too much attention.

When seeing off at the airport, Lin Shudu also asked if Lin Xi was sure to win this game, and it happened that Jin Yong was also present at the time, Lin Xi just smiled and did not answer directly.

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