Chapter 841 TB Company’s Dilemma

846, TB Company’s dilemma

After Tang Wen finished his phone call, he returned to the living room. At this time, Xiao Wang and Qin Feng were watching the program on TV. Seeing Tang Wen coming back, Xiao Wang pointed at the TV and laughed, "Old Tang, it seems that TB Company can’t hold on for much longer."

"What happened to them?" Tang Wen returned to his seat and said with his legs crossed.

Qin Feng shook his head and said, "He killed himself."

"That’s right. It’s no wonder that he was poached by others." Xiao Wang said with a smile.

"Uh? What’s going on?" Tang Wen was stunned and didn’t react to what was going on.

Xiao Wang pointed at the TV and said, "Yes, now the Jade TV and the HA TV are madly poaching people from TB Company. It is said that many middle-level managers have been poached."

"There is such a thing?" Tang Wen was a little confused when he heard it. He didn’t expect that TB Company would be poached by the other two TV stations. This was something he didn’t expect.

Currently, the only private TV stations left in Hong Kong are TB, Jade and the recently established HA TV. In terms of strength, the former TB can be said to have crushed the other two.

Jade has always relied on the novels of Long Aotian from Taiwan to follow TB TV, while the recently established HA TV mainly relies on some "midnight" content to attract some "dirty guys".

But now the situation has reversed rapidly. Jade and HA TV began to frantically poach people from TB. Perhaps they knew that TB now had no "sponsors" and poaching people was particularly smooth.

"That's not the case, right? Doesn't TB still have an artist department? With so many artists in hand, TB will not give up easily." Tang Wen asked.

Qin Feng smiled and said, "The current situation is that all the people below have been poached. TB naturally won't support so many useless people in vain. Now they can only lay off employees."

"That's right, they have no good way except layoffs now, but this has become a vicious cycle." Xiao Wang gloated.

Tang Wen said in confusion: "Even if there are no sponsors, can't they promote it on their own TV stations? Besides, doesn't Uncle Six have a cinema?"

"Haha, Old Tang, you are so funny. What are the cinemas in a small place like Hong Kong? A movie with an investment of tens of millions can't even recover its costs here. As for selling TV series to TV stations? Haha, that broken TV station has no popularity at all. Sponsors are not fools. This is a vicious cycle." Xiao Wang has a cinema at home, so he is more familiar with this. He pointed out the current predicament of TB Company.

After hearing this, Tang Wen remembered that Hong Kong is a "small place" with a population of more than 7 million. It is basically impossible to digest such a large "investment" in movies or TV series by relying on local resources.

So most of the previous TBs sold some finished products to Southeast Asia, South Korea, Singapore, and Japan to make extra money, but now it is different.

Now these countries basically have their own "specialties", and the content they produce is no worse than that of TB Company, so the era of chasing TB Company's movies and TV series is over.

Especially after the recent Xiangjiang Weekly and many local big names began to "boycott" the artists under TB Company, the salaries of TB Company's artists suddenly fell to the bottom.

Some small artists before could still make money by performing, but now they can only compete with the models from Ulan and Alama for work.

In addition, after Li Xiangtian's previous disturbance, many artists "struck" and started to "make a living on their own". After all, if they waited for TB Company to start working, they would have starved to death.

So there is the current situation. On the one hand, the personnel of TB Company have not been in place, and the artists below have no movies to shoot. On the other hand, there is no income from endorsements.

For a time, many artists had to start developing their own "side jobs" to make a living. The nearby Jade Channel and HA TV station saw this point and began to poach people from TB Company frantically.

Especially at the beginning, they did not start with "artists", but turned around and started to poach some screenwriters and some "odd jobs" from TB Company, which was very puzzling.

When the people from TB Company reacted, they were surprised to find that TB Company could not find anyone even if they wanted to shoot a TV series, either because of the lack of lighting or props.

Even the most basic field service was almost poached by HA TV and Jade TV. The two TV companies even set up an "acting arts" school in imitation of TB Company, which was a posture of snatching people alive.

"Didn't they say that Uncle Six and Mr. Zhang from Jade TV and Mr. Cai from HA TV are good friends? Why are they poaching people so ruthlessly now?" Tang Wen said with a smile.

Qin Feng smiled and replied at this time: "Old Tang, that was an old story before. Now TB Company's artists have almost no endorsements in Hong Kong. If HA TV and Jade TV don't take action at this time, then they are really crazy."

"What Lao Qin said is correct, and HA TV is said to have connected with the Zhou family. Now movies and TV series can be brought to the Chinese mainland through the Zhou family. As for Jade TV, it is said that it can be brought directly to the capital through the Jiang family." Xiao Wang said casually.

After hearing this, Tang Wen understood that TB company's "trouble" was too big, so people around started to poach people. After all, TB TV had praised many of its peers before, and they did not show any mercy when they took action. This may be retribution in this life.

"TB company can't just sit there and wait for death, right? They still have so many artist contracts in their hands. Even if Jade TV and HA want to poach, it won't be easy." Tang Wen shook his head and said.

Xiao Wang said with a sly smile: "Old Tang, you don't understand the ins and outs of this. Think about it, HA TV and Jade TV poached all the people from TB Company, and those artists can't work and can only eat empty salaries. Do you think TB Company will let these people eat empty salaries?"

Tang Wen said with a smile: "You mean HA TV and Jade TV did it on purpose?"

"That's for sure. They are probably waiting for the people from TB Company to "lay off" themselves. Then they can sign a large number of people at a bargain price." Xiao Wang said with a confident look.

"Tsk tsk, it's interesting." Tang Wen said, touching his chin.