Chapter 965: There Are Many Stories in the TV Station (Part 2)

Now MBC employees are full of resentment when talking about their president and representative. Zhang Pingan knows that all this resentment is laying the foundation for next year's general strike. I don't know what kind of fault the president's representative has, but he is now interfering too much with the rights of the program team. Artists he doesn't like are not allowed to be used. And the funding approval submitted by the program team is really hard to describe.

In the original words of the program directors, ‘If I use this little money to invite others to participate in the program, they will be too embarrassed to ask. ’ This shows how difficult it is for the program team to get funding approval. What is the concept of being embarrassed to ask for appearance fees? To put it bluntly, it is to give people who come to participate in the show some travel expenses to pass the time.

If it were a TV show ten years ago, it would still be possible, because at that time, TV stations were the only way for artists to promote themselves. At that time, it would be reasonable for the program team to pay a little travel fee for artists to do the show. But in today's era... Let's not talk about the competition between TV stations. The Internet has also had a huge impact on TV stations. Nowadays, it is not just TV stations competing with TV stations, but also some network competition.

Now MBC's president and representative are reluctant to spend money on production, and they also want to intervene in the guest invitations of the program. If a popular artist at the moment doesn't have money, he doesn't ask for help, but he still requires the program team to raise the ratings?

If you want the horse to run, then you have to let the horse eat, right? But he doesn't care about that much. If he doesn't give it to you, you still have to improve the ratings.

The current situation is: he is not willing to spend money, and you have to do what he asks, and even requires that your program’s ratings must be raised.

If you say that your program's ratings cannot increase, you will inevitably be criticized, and even if it's serious, your bonus will be deducted. Moreover, the bonus he deducted was not from the person who acted as PD, but from all the staff of the entire program team. You said that if he did this, how could it not arouse the resentment of the employees below? Behind the scenes, the ancestors represented by the president of the TV station had been greeted many times.

If it weren't for the difficulty of finding jobs now, the people at these TV stations would no longer want to tolerate his tone. Nowadays, employees of MBC TV station scold their sleazy director behind his back every day after work.

Zhang Ping'an listened to their complaints here, and he also laughed and complained: "Recently, your TV station has been too hard on our company's funds. The advertising revenue from half a year ago has still not been paid off. It makes us no longer interested in cooperating with your station on new programs.”

Listening to Zhang Pingan's complaint, the photographer smiled and said: "You have only been here for half a year. I have heard that many actors have appeared in TV series invested by our station. It has been more than a year and they still haven't received their money." Yes. If he continues to mess up like this, our union will definitely liquidate the director."

Zhang Ping'an couldn't laugh or cry when he heard these inside stories, liquidating the director? Of course Zhang Pingan knew that their TV station would hold a general strike next year and the station director would be fired!

So Zhang Pingan is not afraid of MBC’s debts.

Because after the later director came to power, you will always have to pay these debts with certificates.

As for ‘MBC’, does it have any money now? Zhang Ping'an knew that they really didn't have much money. The MBC in Sangam-dong was built so huge, so it was all money. It can be said that the current building of 'MBC' is mortgaged in the bank, and there are so many employees in the TV station to support. It can be said that they really have no money in the station. This is also the reason why they have been owed money to investors such as Zhang Pingan.

The way TV stations make money is through advertising, variety shows, or TV series they invest in. Nowadays, the only TV station that makes regular money is the ace "No Choice". In addition, in order to save some production costs, the program team, Liu Zaishi and others have not had a salary increase for so many years since 2008. Basically, their "No Choice" members rely on their ratings to support their idea of ​​appearing at low prices.

As for "The Mask", it is also good. The problem is that "The Mask" is a cooperation between TV and Zhang Pingan. The TV station has to give half of the profits to Zhang Pingan. So when it comes to making money, it is still not as good as "No Challenge". After all, "No Challenge" was produced by their own station. As for "Living Alone", which has good ratings, it is funded by Zhang Ping'an, and its income has nothing to do with the TV station. Even the advertising money of the manufacturers does not go to the TV station.

Then, then it disappeared, and now even the ratings of the previous ace program "My Knot" are dying. As for investment in TV dramas in Taiwan in recent years, their station has not made any hits, so they really don’t have much money!

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After Zhang Pingan had lunch with the MBC employees, he paid the bill. Although everyone had already started eating when he went to eat, the meal only cost tens of thousands of won. He was the PD after all. 'Woolen cloth.

After coming out of the restaurant, they did not rush back to the TV station, but stood on the roadside and started smoking.

Zhang Ping'an looked at the young lighting engineer and couldn't help but look back at the weather anchors who were sitting there touching up their makeup. He smiled and said, "Weather anchors, are they beautiful?"

The old cameraman who was standing in front smoking smiled and said to the young lighting engineer: "What are you looking at, you brat? These weather anchors, no matter how blind they are, are still looking for a doctor. We ordinary people can still count on it." Come on, let me tell you, don’t even watch it, lest you young people won’t be able to sleep at night after watching too much.”

Zhang Pingan followed up the cameraman's words and said: "What should I do if I can't sleep? Why not take a walk in Cheongnyangri?"

Seoul's Cheongnyangri used to be the same as China's famous 'Dongwan', but of course it is definitely banned now. Although 'Chingnyangri' is banned, there are still many KTVs and hotels that provide special services. Of course, Zhang Pingan said 'Chingnyangri' just means 'that'.

All the elder brothers present burst into laughter: "Hahaha~~!"

Zhang Pingan said with a smile: "Which station are these from? I don't think I've seen them in any familiar station."

The young lighting technician said with a smile: "They are from Chosun TV. The one with chestnut hair is the anchor Huang Meina."

Zhang Pingan smiled and patted the lighting technician on the shoulder and said: "You should have heard it clearly. Didn't you take the initiative to ask for a phone number or something?"

The lighting technician shook his head and said: "Just take a look. We are too far away from their anchors. Their lowest requirement is probably the anchor level. For us, forget it."

Zhang Pingan didn't have much to say about the lighting technician's inferiority complex or the reality of the situation, because it would be meaningless if he said too much. Nowadays, there is a concept of "equal status" in first-tier cities. At least the level must be similar to have that possibility!

They gathered to smoke, and Zhang Pingan said goodbye: "You guys take your time, I'll leave first, I have a meeting over there."

The elder brothers smiled and said: "Okay, PD, thank you for your hospitality at noon."

After watching Zhang Pingan walk away in the direction of '', they started chatting: "PD Zhang, he is really a nice person. Every time our program group has a dinner, his company pays for the dinner. It is said to be a cooperative program, but the TV station has never allocated a penny for our dinner. Every time we have a dinner, 'PD Zhang' said that the bill should go to his company. It's not that I was bribed by PD Zhang's meal, but there is no gap without comparison."

"I haven't heard any bad reviews about Zhang Pingan in the past two years."

"If I had money, I could also achieve zero bad reviews!"

"Hahaha, this is the truth, hahaha~~~!"

, When Zhang Pingan received the temporary pass, Luo Yingshi and the staff came out of the twin towers of 'CJ'. He looked at Zhang Pingan from a distance and called out: "PD Zhang, hello, rare guest?"

Zhang Pingan looked at Luo Yingshi and Li Youzhen and said: "PD Luo, writer Li, where are you going?"

Luo Yingshi greeted Zhang Pingan and said: "Of course we are going to eat, where else can we go? Have you eaten? If not, let's go together."

Zhang Pingan responded: "I just came in after eating. I'll go for a while. I'll come back later. You go eat first."

Luo Yingshi nodded, and they went to eat.

Nowadays, the TV stations that are most willing to spend money are not the original "three major TV stations" but these private TV stations. tvN, whether it is the investment strength of TV series or the production of variety shows, is willing to spend a lot of money.

The TV stations that are willing to invest will naturally produce better results than other TV stations. Moreover, tvN, in the past two years, not only Zhang Pingan and Luo Yingshi's variety show cooperation has been very good, but also the TV series invested by their station have been very popular!

Zhang Pingan came and saw that many people in the department were not in their positions. They probably went out to eat or something. When the staff saw Zhang Pingan coming, they all smiled and greeted him: "PD Zhang."

"When will the lunch break end?"

The staff responded: "One o'clock. Wait a moment, everyone will be back soon."

The lunch time at the TV station is not like the school where everyone goes in a rush. The TV station still divides people into batches. Otherwise, if all the people in a group leave, if a leader suddenly comes down to tell them something and sees that there is no one in the group, the group leader will definitely be criticized.

Zhang Pingan nodded and said, "I'll go to the tea room and take a break."

Zhang Pingan came to the tea room of the Variety Bureau and grabbed two cups of instant coffee to make it himself. It is very comfortable to drink a cup of high-sugar instant coffee after eating a salty and spicy lunch.

Zhang Pingan blew on a cup of boiling hot coffee and finished it in two or three sips. After a while, a staff member came in and told Zhang Pingan that the 'PD' was back.

Zhang Pingan then went out of the tea room. Seeing that most of the staff had returned, Zhang Pingan smiled and said to the program PD: "PD Jin, let's call the writers to have a meeting together."