However, after Xu Guanwu became the head of TVB, this behavior was corrected. First of all, the first step was to raise the wages of employees, first to eliminate their worries, and then to criticize the behavior of rushing to the show, and set up a special person to strictly investigate this kind of thing.

As a result, after two years have passed, TVB has rarely caught up with the phenomenon of dramas, and of course there is still the phenomenon of overtime. But things like the kind of things like not being able to sleep for days and nights, and making people tired and sick for filming, have disappeared.

Xu Guanwu's good deed has been unanimously praised by his employees, after all, the money he earned has not decreased, but his health has been preserved, which is a good thing for everyone.

However, in the eyes of Mr. Lee Hau-wo, Sir Shaw Yifu, and Mak Dang-hung, Hui Guanwu is a bit kind of womanly in doing so. Although they are not opposed to treating employees well, they also do not want to use salary increases and overtime reductions like Xu Guanwu.

Raising wages for employees means increasing costs, while reducing overtime means reducing the number of products, and positive and negative means declining profits. And no boss wants his profits to decay, not even a big boss like Sir Shao, who is worth hundreds of millions, not to mention Li's parent company, the reflection of Li's who is in business difficulties.

In fact, Xu Guanwu is not unfond of money, but he knows that money is endless, and with the memory of the next forty years he has, it is enough to ensure that he will eat and drink in this life, and even in the next life, and live a life of wealth and rival country. So there's no need to make any more money.

What's more, his purpose in controlling the TV station is not to make money, but to have his own mouthpiece. Have your own voice. The importance of public opinion will become more and more important in the future. People who have the right to speak are often able to manipulate public opinion. So as to obtain great economic benefits.

For example, the world's media tycoon Murdoch owns well-known media such as The Times, The Sun, The Wall Street Journal, Fox Television Network, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Star Media, and other well-known media in the world. That's why he became friends with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and broke through the restrictions of British law one after another, acquiring and merging other media outlets. And he also has many friends in the American political arena to escort his business in the United States.

Murdoch's Fox News Network is a right-wing media outlet that is the fourth-largest public news network in the United States and has a very large audience. And its program views are also very biased. They often chase and beat politicians of hostile parties, which greatly tarnishes their reputation.

In the United States, elections are actually just public opinion propaganda, and anyone who wants to win the election must first win the public opinion war. And Murdoch, who has a great voice in the United States, is undoubtedly equivalent to choking the throat of politicians and forcing them to compromise with themselves. Therefore, Murdoch can easily escape the punishment of the law without bearing any responsibility after committing crimes such as wiretapping.

However, Murdoch is not without rivals in the United States, and his opponent is Lei Shidong, who also has a city of media tycoons. Lei Shidong's media empire is also huge, with not only a prestigious studio like Paramount, but also MTV TV. United Paramount TV, National Entertainment Cinema. The Bescard video rental chain, etc., etc., etc.

And his Comedy Central cable channel has a talk show, "The Daily Show", which often makes fun of Fox News. With his witty and humorous language and extremely appropriate body movements, he criticized the Fox News Network news as worthless and full of loopholes. It has received very high ratings, has been nominated for 14 Emmy Awards, and has been recognized by 7 awards.

Murdoch has been rooted in Britain for many years, and since the 70s, he has never missed a bet on the choice of prime minister, and all the candidates he supports have been elected, which makes him the third force in Britain after the Labour Party and the Conservative Party.

Although Xu Guanwu's purpose in owning the media may not be to control the political arena, owning a media of his own can at least give him the ability to protect himself. Purely working hard economically, Xu Guanwu is not afraid of anyone. To be honest, with these precious memories in his mind, it is more than enough to casually mix with the richest man in the world.

However, the economy often comes with politics, and this politics refers not only to the British authorities in Hong Kong, nor only to the mainland government, but to almost all governments in the world, and it is possible that in the future, because of the political problems caused by the economy, Xu Guanwu will bring unnecessary trouble.

There is an ancient Chinese saying that the tree is a big move, and there is a saying that people are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong. Like Bill. Gates is also under investigation for Microsoft's monopoly issues, but Murdoch, who is suspected of monopoly like him, no one dares to touch his tiger ass. Because Microsoft only has money but no mouthpiece of its own, like Murdoch, he can use his media to pull the pigtails of politicians one by one.

Except for a politician who is stronger and can wipe out the entire Murdoch media empire at once, otherwise he can only be shunned before that. In fact, Murdoch's strength is feared even by the British Prime Minister. Although Blair was the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the selection, his political views were very similar to those of the Conservative Party, just to avoid touching Murdoch's countermeasures.

Xu Guanwu will make a lot of money in the future, who knows if there will be any unlucky one in Lu Dao, seeing that he is a fat sheep and is easy to bully and cut it? Therefore, it is advisable to be prepared in advance.

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After the filming of the first half of "Crocodile Tears" and "The World is Messing", a total of 40 episodes, the directors of the two TV stations watched it and felt that this drama was very well filmed. Whether it is the storyline, the actors' acting skills, or the picture effect, they can all be called superb. So both TV stations want to get the premiere rights of this TV series first.

Since both families want this TV series, they must follow the previously agreed plan and use bidding to fight for it. However, in order to avoid unnecessary competition, the auction did not use the method of bidding, but the method of concealed bidding. The two companies work together to write their own suitable reserve price. And then announce it together. Those who naturally bid high will get the right to first broadcast. The replay right is only half the cost of the first broadcast right. As for the distribution of rebroadcast rights and even takeaway copyrights, etc. There is also a plan in the contract for a long time, and there will be no backtracking.

Li's TV station is determined to win this drama, unlike TVB, even if they don't jointly invest in the filming of TV dramas, they still have a lot of money to invest in filming. And during the filming of "Crocodile Tears", TVB has never stopped making self-made TV series, and the cost of their self-made TV series is very high, although it may be worse than "Crocodile Tears". But it is also equivalent to double the cost of Li's TV series before.

And these TV series with high investment costs are also very watchable, and they all have very high ratings. On the other hand, Li's TV station was worried that the copyright would not be sold, so although it also filmed some self-made dramas later, the cost was overwhelmingly low. And because the cost is lower, the picture looks a little fake.

Like Xu's costume martial arts films, you can shoot directly on the Huada set. This set was originally owned by a Nanyang film company, but later Xu Guanwu bought it directly when he had money, and spent money to more than double the Huada studio, which was already not small. It has become a large studio covering an area of 160,000 square feet.

Although after the seventies. The big-studio system like Shaw Brothers has gradually become obsolete, but for film companies. Having your own set is like taking root. As long as the set is not lost, the film company can make a comeback at any time. It seems that although Shaw Brothers announced the discontinuation of production in the 80s, more than a year later, it immediately borrowed the corpse of Metropolitan Film Company to resurrect the soul. After Golden Harvest lost the Busan Road studio, and the Tseung Kwan O studio that was originally promised to it was rebuilt into a TV city by six companies including Shaw Brothers, it has been in a slump since then, and there is no chance to turn over.

With a set of films, film companies can have more freedom to shoot. For example, Golden Harvest's Busan Road Studio and Shaw Brothers' Clear Water Bay Cinema all have huge buildings and studios covering an area, which can basically meet the basic needs of filming. In this way, film companies do not have to constantly apply to the government for filming venues, and secondly, they can save a lot of extra capital.

For example, when a film company shoots a location outside, especially when shooting a movie with an urban theme, when it needs to use streets, supermarkets, buildings and other facilities, it has to pay a compensation to the surrounding stores, and when to apply for shooting, it must be finished when it is filmed. This brings a lot of mental and material pressure to filmmakers.

And when filming movies outside, there will be a lot of unexpected situations, such as the crowd of onlookers interfering with the shooting, such as the local Black X Society members picking quarrels and provoking trouble...... It's a very headache. But if you are filming on your own set, it is different, and these things can be waived.

And if the studio is well managed, it can actually develop tourism part-time, such as Shaw Brothers Cinemas, which has millions of people who come to visit every year. Even if you only charge 10 yuan per visitor, you can still earn tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. If you buy some movie props, celebrity posters, videos/DVDs, etc., then the income will be even more.

So after Xu Guanwu had money, he was the first to buy the Huada studio, and now whether it is shooting movies, or TVB TV borrowing places to shoot TV series, or even small film companies coming here to rent studios to shoot movies, they can make the best use of everything and create a steady stream of profits for Xu Guanwu.

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Like Xu's has a Huada studio, TVB can also film again, there are so many complexes, ancient, Republican, modern, everything. Live shooting, which makes people look comfortable. But like Li's TV station, there is no such condition, the cost of investment is not even enough to rent the studio, and you can only use the set board to fill the number, making the TV series like a drama on the stage, although the actors act very hard, but the feeling brought to the audience is very different.

It is naturally difficult for such a shoddy TV series to have good ratings, and not only the audience will not buy it, but even advertisers will not buy it. They spend money to buy advertisements in this period, mainly because if the ratings of the TV series are good, the advertising effect will be good. But if TV stations are showing such shoddy TV dramas, how can the ratings be good? And if the ratings are not good, won't the advertising money be in vain?!

So the advertiser scared the TV station of Leigh the most terrible ultimatum, either you will reduce the advertising fee, or just spit out the money. Either you will show TV series with relatively high ratings, or not to mention that the advertising fee will not give you a penny, and you may not cooperate with you again in the future.

The so-called customer is God, and the advertiser is undoubtedly the father and mother of the TV station. If they're all gone, they'll still be able to get it, so this "Crocodile Tears", Li's must get it. (To be continued......)