The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 406 Christmas schedule

However, after Xu Guanwu took over the wireless TV station, he corrected this behavior.First of all, the first step is to increase the wages of the employees, first to relieve their worries, and then to criticize the behavior of catching up with the show, and set up a special person to strictly investigate such things.

As a result, after two years have passed, TVB has seldom had the phenomenon of catching up with the show, and of course there is still the phenomenon of working overtime.But things like being unable to sleep for several days and nights and making people sick because of filming have disappeared.

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

However, in the eyes of Mr. Li Xiaohe, Sir Shao Yifu, and the producer McDonald, Xu Guanwu's doing so is a bit of a woman's benevolence.Although they don't object to treating employees well, they don't want to increase wages and reduce overtime like Xu Guanwu did.

Raising wages for employees means an increase in costs, and reducing overtime means a reduction in the number of products, and both positive and negative means profit decay.And no boss wants his profits to decline, even a billionaire boss like Sir Shao doesn't want to, let alone Li's parent company, Li's Yingsheng, which is in business difficulties.

In fact, it is not that Xu Guanwu does not love money, but he knows that money is endless. With the memory he has for the next 40 years, it is enough to ensure that he will have no worries about food and drink in this life, and even in the next life, and live a life that is incomparably rich. day.So there is no need to make these ignorant money.

What's more, his purpose of controlling the TV station is not to make money, but to have his own mouthpiece and the right to speak.The importance of public opinion will become more and more important in the future, and those who have the advantage of the right to speak are often able to manipulate public opinion, thereby obtaining great economic benefits.

For example, the world media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, his News Corporation owns such world-renowned newspapers as "The Times", "The Sun", "Wall Street Journal", Fox Television Network, "New York Post", "Wall Street Journal", Star Media, etc. media.That's why he became friends with British Prime Minister Blair, and successively broke through the restrictions of British law, acquiring and merging other media.And he also has many friends in the American political arena, escorting his business in the United States.

Murdoch's Fox News is a right-wing media. It 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, often chasing down politicians from rival parties, which greatly damages their reputation.

In the U.S. elections, the fight is actually public opinion propaganda. Anyone who wants to win the election must first win the public opinion war.And Murdoch, who has great discourse power in the United States, is undoubtedly equivalent to choking politicians by the throat, forcing them to compromise with themselves.That's why Murdoch can easily evade legal punishment after committing crimes such as wiretapping, without having to bear any responsibility.

However, Murdoch is not without opponents in the United States. His opponent is Redstone, who also has a city of media tycoons.The media empire owned by Redstone is also huge. It not only owns a famous film company like Paramount, but also MTV TV, United Paramount TV, National Entertainment Theater, Blockbuster video rental chain stores, and so on.

And his Comedy Central cable channel has a talk show, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," which often makes fun of Fox News.Jon Stuart used his humorous language and extremely appropriate body movements to criticize Fox News' news as worthless and full of loopholes.And it has received very high ratings, has been nominated for [-] Emmy Awards, and has been affirmed by seven awards.

Murdoch has been rooted in the UK for many years. Since the 70s, he has never lost his bet on the issue of the prime minister. All the candidates supported by him have been elected. This makes him the No. Three forces.

Although Xu Guanwu's purpose in owning the media may not be the idea of ​​controlling the political arena, but owning a media of his own can at least give him the ability to protect himself.Just 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 for him to be the richest man in the world.

But the economy is often accompanied by politics. This politics refers not only to the Hong Kong and British authorities, but also not only to the mainland government, but almost all governments around the world. Bring unnecessary trouble to Xu Guanwu.

There is an old Chinese saying that a big tree attracts the wind, and there is another saying that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong.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's ass.Because Microsoft only has money but does not have its own mouthpiece, while Murdoch can use its media to pull the pigtails of politicians one by one.

Except for which politician is relatively strong 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 even feared by the British Prime Minister.When Blair was selected, although he was the leader of the Labor Party, his political views were very similar to those of the Conservative Party, in order to avoid touching Murdoch's backlash.

Xu Guanwu will make a lot of money in the future, who knows if there will be some unlucky one who sees that he is a fat sheep who is easy to bully and chop him up?So it is necessary to prepare in advance.

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After the filming of the first half of "Crocodile Tears", "The World Is Wasted", a total of [-] episodes have been filmed. After watching it, the directors of the two TV stations think that the filming of this film is very good.Whether the storyline is good, whether the actors' acting skills are good, or the picture effects are good, they can all be called excellent works.Therefore, both TV stations want to get the premiere rights of this TV series first.

Since both of them want this TV series, they have to follow the previously agreed plan and use the bidding method to win it.However, in order to avoid unnecessary competition, this auction does not use outcry, but a hidden bid.The two jointly write their own suitable reserve price, and then announce it together.Naturally, the person who pays the highest price will get the first broadcast right, and the rebroadcast right only needs to pay half of the first broadcast right.As for the rebroadcasting rights and even the profit distribution of takeaway copyrights, there are already plans in the contract, and there will be no back-and-forth.

Li's TV station is determined to win this drama. Unlike TVB, even if they don't jointly invest in TV dramas, they still have a lot of money to invest in filming.And during the filming of "Crocodile Tears", TVB has actually never stopped its self-produced TV series, and their self-made TV series cost a lot. Although it may be worse than "Crocodile Tears", it is still equivalent to The cost of Li's previous TV series has doubled.

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

Like Xu's ancient costume martial arts films, he can shoot directly at the Huada studio.This studio was originally owned by a Nanyang film company, but Xu Guanwu bought it directly when he had money, and spent money to expand the Huada studio, which was originally not small, to more than double.It has become a large studio covering an area of ​​16 square feet.

Although after the 70s, the big studio system like Shaw Brothers has gradually become obsolete, but for film companies, owning their own studio is actually like taking root.As long as the studio is not lost, the studio can make a comeback at any time.It seems that although Shaw Brothers announced the discontinuation of production in the 80s, but more than a year later, it immediately revived as Metropolis Films.However, after Golden Harvest lost its Busan Road studio, and the Tseung Kwan O studio that was originally promised to it, it was blocked halfway by Shaw Brothers and other six companies and converted into a TV city.

With a studio, the film company can have more freedom to shoot.Like Golden Harvest's Busan Road studio and Shaw Brothers' Clear Water Bay Studios, they all have huge buildings and studios, which can basically meet the basic needs of filming.In this way, the film company does not need to frequently apply to the government for shooting locations, and secondly, it can save a lot of extra capital.

For example, when a film company shoots outdoor scenes, especially for urban-themed movies, when they need to use streets, supermarkets, buildings and other facilities, they have to pay a sum of compensation to the surrounding shops, and when they apply for shooting, they must be in what place. When the time is over, there is no time to wait.This brings great mental pressure and material pressure to filmmakers.

Moreover, when shooting a movie outside, there will be many unexpected situations, such as crowds of onlookers interfering with the filming, such as local gangsters picking quarrels and provoking trouble... these are all very troublesome things.But it would be different if he was filming on his own studio, all these things could be avoided.

Moreover, if the studio is well managed, it can actually develop tourism as a part-time job. For example, Shaw Brothers Studios attracts millions of people to visit every year.Even if each tourist only charges [-] yuan for tickets, there are tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars in revenue.If you buy some movie props, star posters, video tapes/dvd, etc., then the income will be even more.

So after Xu Guanwu had money, he was the first to buy the Huada studio. Now, whether it is shooting movies, TVB TV stations borrowing space to shoot TV dramas, or even small film companies come here to rent a studio to shoot movies, they can do it. Make the best use of everything and create a steady stream of profits for Xu Guanwu.

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Like Xu's Huada studio, TVB can also film again. There are so many architectural complexes, ancient ones, Republican ones, modern ones, everything.The real scene shooting makes people look comfortable.But TV stations like Li’s don’t have this condition. The cost of investment is not even enough to rent the studio, so they can only use the set boards to make up for it, making the TV series like a drama on the stage. The audience's feelings are quite different.

Naturally, it is difficult for a shoddy TV series like this to have good ratings, and not only the audience will not buy it, but even the advertisers will not buy it.They spend money to buy advertisements during this time period, mainly because they are sure that if the ratings of TV dramas are good, the advertising effect will be good.But if all TV stations show such shoddy TV series, how can the ratings be good?And if the ratings are not good, wouldn't the advertising fee be for nothing? !
That's why the advertisers gave Li's TV station an ultimatum, either you can reduce the advertising costs, or just spit out the money.Either you show TV dramas with relatively high ratings, or you won’t be able to cooperate with you in the future, not to mention that the advertising fee won’t give you another penny.

The so-called customer is God, and advertisers are undoubtedly the parents of TV stations.If they all left, it would be fine, so Li must get this "Crocodile Tears".

(End of this chapter)