Chapter 171 Wireless Efforts (First Update! Please Subscribe! Please Ask for a Monthly Pass!)

In the previous life, after entering 76 years, although Shao Yifu repeatedly made stupid moves in Shaw Brothers movies and did not think about making progress, but on the contrary, it was Shao Yifu who continued to innovate on Wireless TVB and exhausted his efforts to create An unrivaled television empire emerges.

From defeating JiaTV in one fell swoop, to beating Li TV in panic, and finally to stepping on ATV in one breath, Wireless TVB has shown more and more its demeanor of the king, and it can be said to be invincible.

Of course, it is not that they did not encounter difficulties along the way. For example, Zheng Yutong and Lin Baixin were both on the verge of victory, but this time, they were finally overcome by Wireless.

On the one hand, of course it is due to luck, on the other hand, it is inseparable from Shao Yifu's leadership.

People say that Shao Yifu gave up Shaw Brothers films and concentrated on TVB because he was encouraged by Fang Yihua.

Even in the history of wireless, Fang Yihua was the one who frequently made foolish tricks, so several times he was able to trample the enemy to death, but in the end he made the enemy grow stronger. There is even a saying that without Fang Yihua, where would there be such How many people were poached again and again?

But judging from Yin Jun's careful observation now, it was not Fang Yihua's idea at all, but Shao Yifu's own plan.

So many wireless generals have all betrayed, sometimes to the point where almost all of them have been hollowed out, isn't it in line with Shao Yifu's character? The stingy nature of doing business in his bones happens to be an important factor that has always restricted his development in all aspects!

Shao Yifu, who has been in the film industry for decades, knows the film industry very well.

After entering the TV industry more than ten years ago, and now in charge of wireless TVB for seven or eight years, Shao Yifu has a clearer understanding of the future development of the TV industry.

He deeply knows that in the small area of ​​Xiangjiang, maybe dozens of film companies can be accommodated, but there are only one or two TV stations at most.

In terms of industry development stability and industry influence, Wireless TVB is definitely much better than Shaw Brothers Movies.

The instability of Shaw Brothers movies is too great. One or two movies hit the market, and there is no way to turn around for a long time.

But the TV station is different. Even if you fail occasionally, as long as you have a deep foundation, you can quickly turn defeat into victory again.

Shao Yifu is getting older, and he is not that interested in such a high-risk industry.

In the real estate business in Singapore and Malaysia, Shao Yifu has handed over all the management to his sons. The few pieces of land owned by Xiangjiang are also used by him for Shaw Brothers movies or wireless TVB.

For Shaw Brothers movies, the pressure has been increasing in recent years. Dozens of movies are made a year, and some movies are only released for a week or ten days. He has to use more movies to hit the number, so that Guarantee the number of screenings in Shaw Brothers Cinemas and Nanyang Cinemas.

That is to say, on Wireless TVB's side, directors, producers and actors are used to this way of working, and they have also produced some talents, which made the business of Wireless TVB flourish and made Shao Yifu less worried.

Although at this time, Shao Yifu only has 3.25% of wireless shares in his hands, but he is not worried at all, because Li Xiaohe has already told him that in a maximum of two years, Li Xiaohe will sell his own 2.66% The shares were given to him, and even 1.16% of the Li family was going to be transferred to Shao Yifu.

At that time, Shao Yifu will have more than 7% of the shares in his hands and will become the first private shareholder of Wireless.

Then there is a strategy of management buyout, or continuous issuance of shares. Shao Yifu holds 30% of wireless shares, and there is no problem at all.

However, Yin Jun's sudden appearance directly disrupted Shao Yifu's plan.

The originally dying Jiayi TV station was revitalized because of Yin Jun and won a lot of market share.

"Wulin Biography" and "Bao Qingtian" were like two big mountains, pressing on Wireless's head. Even the annual drama "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji" was beaten into a mess and almost cut in half.

Then Li's actually found Yin Jun, and took a super divine drama that was more fierce than "Wulin Biography" and "Bao Qingtian" - "Chu Liuxiang"!

With an average audience rating of 85%, "Chu Liuxiang" has spread from Xiangjiang to the whole of Asia. When people talk about TV dramas, they must talk about "Chu Liuxiang". dripping blood.

Compared with "Chu Liuxiang", "Wulin Biography" and "Bao Qingtian", the people of insight in TVB are more wary of "Millionaire" recently broadcast by Jiashi.

Because this means that Jiashi is not satisfied with surpassing TVB on TV, and they want to wrestle with TVB in variety shows.

Someone once said that if Jiashi and Lidi wanted to make a difference in variety shows, even outsiders would laugh.

The absolute dominance of "Happy Tonight" with an average rating of more than 80% is something that no other program has ever been able to do since Xiangjiang TV started broadcasting.

Even if "Chu Liuxiang" and "Bao Qingtian" severely suppressed "Happy Tonight", they are not variety shows. When it comes to variety shows, "Happy Tonight" is still the No. 1 in Xiangjiang, the undisputed No. 1 in Hong Kong ! !

But what Jiashi presents now is not that kind of nonsensical program, but a high-quality variety show created by Yin Jun himself.

Although the ratings of "Millionaire" is only about 36%, there is no way to surpass or even suppress "Happy Tonight", but this variety show has super popularity and attracts very divided audiences.

According to the data from Nielsen Statistics Company, more than 70% of the 30-40 year olds with a high school education or above are watching "Millionaire", and most of the people left for "Happy Tonight" are teachers and children them.

This is not good.

As we all know, the one with the most purchasing power is naturally the one with the strongest earning power.

These highly educated white-collar workers are usually the pillars of the family. They are willing to buy things for themselves and have strong purchasing power. Therefore, this group of people is generally the potential customer group pursued by large advertisers.

According to this trend, it won't be long before those first- and second-tier international brands will find Jiashi and spend a lot of money to advertise on "Millionaire", thus fueling their arrogance even more!

In order to deal with the fierceness of "Millionaire", Shao Yifu recently held 8 consecutive meetings, but he couldn't come up with a good solution.

Shao Yifu has a lot of management work in wireless, but basically half a day is spent in meetings.

In addition to the strategy of variety shows, more important than it is the TV series.

For TVB, TV drama programs are the lifeline, at least the lifeline of advertising revenue.

It was decided in the recent meeting to dig out Zheng Yuling with a lot of money.

Don't look at Zheng Yuling who is so scary after 50 years old, but she is still very handsome in her twenties, otherwise she will not be valued by so many film companies in the future, and she will start filming 13 TV series at the same time.

TVB has carefully studied the current situation of Jiashi. Their first sister Lixue is naturally untouchable. Jiashi has raised her salary and promised Yin Jun to make a TV series for her, so she will not leave.

The same is true for Wu Weiguo, Bai Biao and others. They are very satisfied with the status quo, and they are not so cold about a stingy TV station company like TVB.

Master Bao and Yu Zhanzhao, who have become popular recently, are also not interested in wireless olive branches.

Hui Tianci is because he listened to Hui Yinghong's warning that he would not do anything or agree to anything until the filming of "Bao Qingtian" was finished.

Not to mention Wei Xiaofan, he is Yin Jun's stalwart, even if TVB offered him a sky-high salary, he would not take a look at him.

Many of the popular people in "Wulin Biography" are also closely related to Yin Jun. After counting, Zheng Yuling is the most worthy of being poached with a lot of money.

Firstly, Zheng Yuling is one of the top three actresses in Jiashi, secondly, the role of Tong Xiangyu is now deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, thirdly, Zheng Yuling does not seem to be valued by Yin Jun, and has some complaints about Jiashi and Yin Jun.

Under such circumstances, TVB dispatched several managers, and after a week, they finally recruited Zheng Yuling, paid liquidated damages and left.

When wireless is poaching people, it will never be stingy with money.

In the history of the previous life, countless opponents were turned into friends by them using this money offensive.

Xiao Sheng was poached from Li's by wireless in this way, so was Zheng Yuling in history, so was Wan Ziliang, and so was Lixue...

Now that Zheng Yuling was poached by Wireless, Yin Jun originally thought that they would be quiet for a while, but what he didn't expect was that Wireless's execution ability was terrifyingly strong.

On the day Zheng Yuling was poached, they announced three days later that "Tong Xiangyu's first masterpiece after joining TVB will be presented soon", which surprised Yin Jun.

Even if they had prepared before, it was absolutely impossible for Zheng Yuling to go to TVB to shoot a series before, so basically after Zheng Yuling passed, the filming started non-stop.

But what drama can be filmed in three days?

Yin Jun expressed some doubts.

The reason why teenagers don’t feel that TVB is making bad dramas is that they paid a high price to recruit Zheng Yuling, not for wasting money, and another reason is that this TV series is called "Rainbow" and its producer is called Li Tiansheng.

Among the more than 40 years of TV dramas Yin Jun has watched, he has several ways to choose TV dramas.

One is to see which star.

The other is to see which supervisor produced it.

It’s easy to talk about celebrities. Everyone knows how many celebrities there are in Xiangjiang TVB, but in terms of production, basically only very experienced TV drama fans know.

Of course, Wang Tianlin and Xiao Sheng, the two fat and thin Tianzun, are known to many people.

But in fact, in wireless, there are many people who are not inferior to them.

For example, Du Qifeng, Wei Jiahui, Zhao Zhenqiang who developed in the film later, there are rising stars Qi Qiyi, Pan Jiade and so on.

There is also a producer whose qualifications and ability are not inferior to the Fat and Thin Shuang Tianzun. Perhaps many people don't know his name.

The producer is Li Tiansheng.

The 30-year-old TVB producer joined TVB in 1969. He can be regarded as a veteran of TVB. He worked steadily all the way. He started producing some TV dramas in the early 1970s. After Liang Shuyi and the others pulled a large group of people away, He took a logical position and gradually became one of TVB's top gold medal producers, and then he didn't officially retire until 2016. He can be described as an absolute veteran.

For example, Qi Qiyi, Luo Yongxian, Fang Junhua and other people who will support the wireless sky in the future are all cultivated by him.

This year's TVB blockbuster "Tycoon" has gathered Zheng Shaoqiu, Liu Songren, Zhou Runfa, Zhao Yazhi, Li Siqi and other TVB's top pillars to star in one breath, and the producer is Li Tiansheng.

At that time, "Tycoon" had an average audience rating of 62%, easily surpassing Jiashi and Lidi's TV series.

Originally in October of this year, that is, this month, Li Tiansheng will also supervise the production of the second TV series - "Struggle", but this TV series was originally starred by Zhou Runfa and Zhao Yazhi, but because Zhou Runfa and Zhao Yazhi were cast in this life. Li's dug it away, and now there is no trace.

As a result, when Zheng Yuling passed TVB, his TV series "Rainbow", which was supposed to start airing in November this year, appeared in front of Yin Jun one month earlier.

"Rainbow", an 85-episode TV series, may not be as famous as other TV series that exploded in the history of TVB, but it is a very good TV series. Among the top ten TV series in the 1970s, it occupied a place. .

The original cast of "Rainbow" is also very strong, Zheng Shaoqiu, Wang Minquan, Xie Xian, Tan Yonglin, Zheng Yuling, these are all extremely powerful characters later on, and they can all be regarded as veteran actors.

Everyone may think that Tan Yonglin is just the king of the record industry, but few people know that Tan Yonglin is absolutely good at acting. It was more than 20 years after he won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor that Hua Tsai won the Golden Horse Award.

That is to say, Tan Yonglin has no patience to work in the TV and film industry, otherwise there will be no problem in producing another double actor.

In the announced cast, Zheng Shaoqiu's position is now directly replaced by a newcomer named Lu Liangwei, and none of the other roles have changed. Obviously, this TV series should be similar to the classics of the previous life.

It's a pity that no matter how classic "Rainbow" is, it still has the limitations of its era. When Yin Jun suppresses it with classic dramas from the 1980s, it will never create miracles.

But it is obvious that "Rainbow", a TV series with profound connotations by depicting the grievances and reunions of two mothers and daughters, their confrontation and final reunion, will definitely not fail so badly again.

Li's and Jiashi's TV series may not be able to absolutely crush the ratings.

The key is not in this "Rainbow".

In addition to "Rainbow", TVB also announced that there will be an urban life comedy called "Men's Home" to be broadcast in November.

This so-called "modern version of Wulin Biography" is directed by Zhao Zhenqiang, the producer of "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji", which was defeated by "Bao Qingtian".

What caught Yin Jun's attention a little bit was that the second leading actor of this TV series, the cautious little man Fei Shiyu, was played by a student named Ren Dahua who was at the same time as Zhou Runfa.

In December, a new TV series - "Ping Zong Man Video Recording" is also under intense preparation.

In this classic novel by Mr. Liang Yusheng, Zhang Danfeng in it can be said to be the most classic hero character. In terms of national grievances and righteousness, he has to beat the more famous Chu Liuxiang, and he is stronger than Xiao Feng in "Dragon Babu". .

It's just that not many of Liang Yusheng's novels have been remade into TV series, so Zhang Danfeng is not as famous as Xiao Feng, Zhang Wuji, and Wei Xiaobao, but in the eyes of Xiangjiang people at this time, Zhang Danfeng is definitely comparable to Chu Liuxiang.

"Ping Zong Xia Video Record" is supervised by Du Qifeng, Wang Tianlin's big apprentice. This cutting-edge producer has always been known for his vigor and vitality. He is also one of the few major film directors in Hong Kong in the future. Although he has not made many TV series in TVB, his strength It is something no one dares to underestimate.

The male lead of "Ping Zong Man Video Record" is of course TVB's first brother Liu Songren to perform.

In the original history, "Ping Zong Xia Ying" was produced in ATV in 1985, and then Liu Songren happened to play Zhang Danfeng. This also fully demonstrates that Liu Songren's elegant temperament is really not covered.

This kind of talent, basically only comes out once every fifty years.

Apart from him, the only person in Xiangjiang who can possess such a temperament is Zheng Shaoqiu.

In addition, there is no such talented actor who can be the protagonist at the age of 20 to 60.

Then also in December, Wang Tianlin, who finished the production of "Legend of the Condor Heroes", will also produce another "Dragon Babu".

Looking at Wang Tianlin's production track map, Yin Jun shook his head helplessly.

Legend has it that when ATV and TVB are fighting in the dark, as long as TVB's TV dramas fail, they will resort to the tricks of Kim Yong's martial arts dramas.

It seems that there is a tendency for this trick to take shape in advance!

Of course, Yin Jun was wondering if he beat old man Wang badly continuously, would Wang Jing, a fat man, just hang up and write a few excellent TV series to help old man.

Don't think it's impossible, Wang Jing's talent in screenwriting is definitely the first in Xiangjiang.

Whether it is a few years or decades later, there are too few screenwriters who can surpass Wang Jing in commercial scripts. When he writes commercial scripts, as long as he removes those plots that he thinks will be flattering, he is really top-notch. of!

He really wants to study a few books with great concentration, and they will be very popular when they are photographed.

However, even though Wireless has worked so hard, in Yin Jun's view, the threat is still not great.

If TVB can keep producing excellent TV series like this, then they will definitely not be at a disadvantage in the whole year.

But if they can't hold on, then the winner is Jiashi and Li.

Next year, Yin Jun will still give about three TV dramas to Lidi and Jiashi.

Even if one episode is broadcast every day, it will be enough for at least half a year. Stop broadcasting seven days a week and only broadcast five days a week, it will last longer.

In this way, for two-thirds of the year, there are two major TV stations that broadcast classic TV series in the 1980s and 1990s, which is inherently a great advantage.

Least least, they won't lose.

At best, it is a three-legged situation.

Even if Wireless has taken drugs and kept rushing upwards, Yin Jun can still maintain balance by producing one or two classics.

All in all, within two or three years, Yin Jun will not give up supporting Jiashi and Li's if they have not fully stabilized and are not able to form a tripartite confrontation.

A wireless TVB that monopolizes the TV industry in Hong Kong is definitely not in line with Yin Jun's future plans.

The United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and mainland China can all compete with each other and promote each other. There is no reason why Xiangjiang cannot.

Although the Xiangjiang market is small, if the entire market is placed in Southeast Asia, or even the whole of Asia, will the three TV stations still feel crowded?