Chapter 0012 - The Three Major Television Stations
After deciding on the first step, Yin Jun began to be regularly busy.
He got up at 7:00 in the morning, and after he and Wei Xiaofan helped Auntie Zhang with the cart, and then ate the steamed buns and thin congee that Auntie Zhang had insisted on making for them, he started his work on writing the script of Pao Ching Tien amidst Wei Xiaofan's droning voice.
Then when it was nine thirty in the morning, Yin Jun left the house and went to the Xingji Tea Restaurant to do his business.
In the evening, after eating dinner and getting off work, Yin Jun went back to his rental house and started writing the script until 12 o'clock before taking a break.
On his first day of work, it was Wei Xiaofan who took Yin Jun there, as a way of saying hello and not letting anyone bully him.
Yin Jun then realized, Wei Xiaofan this only half-day shift guy, actually still the foreman, usually greet the guests over, the order order down on the line.
Even so, Wei Xiaofan a month's salary is 2000 yuan, equivalent to the Central a small manager's income, really let the other employees envy and jealousy.
Yin Jun and a few small workers were different, on the one hand, they had to order, they also had to serve tea and water, they also had to pick up the tables, and if the bowls piled up too much, they would be called in to help wash the bowls as well.
When doing things, Yin Jun was not lazy at all, even with Wei Xiaofan greeting him, but he still did what needed to be done, and he would do what others were unwilling to do, apart from eating, there was no time when he was idle.
After two weeks of doing this, not only did the cafeteria's upper and lower ranks praise Yin Jun, even the owner, Xing, felt that this time Wei Xiaofan had really done a good thing, finding him a good employee to come over.
Of course, like it or not, but Brother Xing is also absolutely no pay rise.
A lot of small workers waiters, are because of this to do not long, but Xing brother also do not care, anyway, Xiangjiang more people to go, are more than 4 million, still afraid of not find people willing to work?
A few hate his small workers and waiters, weekday meals and chats, talk about this old man, for the wage earners is stingy, but for his few little love, but is very generous, once they also bumped into Xing accompanied by a twenty-something beautiful woman to buy gold jewelry, really angry!
Yin Jun has never gossiped, there are things to listen and laugh into, absolutely not much to say.
Because of his cleverness and willingness to work, basically after two weeks, see some familiar guests come in, without them opening their mouths, Yin Jun will be able to accurately say their ordering preferences, but also let the guests also praised him.
Wei Xiaofan did not brag, Xingji Tea Restaurant because of the proximity of the Wutai Mountain, the taste is quite good, the price is also fair, the opening time is even to three o'clock in the morning, so many TV stations and radio station people like to come here to eat a little something, drink some milk tea or coffee, busy to take a break.
The two radio station people Yin Jun didn't care much about, he cared about the wireless TVB, Li's and Jia TV people.
For ordinary people in later generations, many people do not know that there are actually two major dominators of the television stations in Hong Kong, they still think that there is only one TVB in Hong Kong, which is also known as TVB.
As a matter of fact, there is another TV station called Asia TV, which is now known as Lai's TV, that has been competing with TVB until the 21st century.
Lai's television even earlier than the wireless TVB are founded, it is the first television station in Hong Kong, but also the first pay television, to watch Lai's program, you have to install the receiver, to pay on time.
Because of this reason, the free wireless TV station was founded, within a few years to beat the Li's TV station, and finally Li's had to also announced free, the two TV stations continue to fight non-stop.
In '74, the owner of Hong Kong's commercial radio station, Mr. Ho Jor-chi, was impressed by the popularity of TVB and Lai's TV stations and joined hands with several shareholders such as Jardine Matheson and Singtao Daily, and after one or two years of preparations, he founded Hong Kong's third free TV station - Chia-Yi TV.
In the beginning, Jia Yi TV station can be said to be a dragon and tiger, a shot to the wireless TV station's deputy general manager, director of production, program director, advertising director ...... and so on, all of them to poach.
This is the famous "Jia Yi six gentlemen incident" in the history of Hong Kong TV station.
That's not all, Jia Yi also went on a rampage to poach wireless stars and general actors and behind-the-scenes personnel.
Before Vice General Manager Liang Shuyi and his men went over, there were only 200 people in Goodview, but as soon as they went over, Goodview immediately became 800 people, which can be said to be very powerful!
But TVB was in deep shit, and for a while it was almost like no one was working.
At that time, the wireless TV station was a few shareholders of the Jia Yi TV station's ancestors have been cursed, but there is nothing to do, can only be promoted from within the manpower top, and then slowly training personnel, so after a year or two to ease the gas.
It is also during this time, Li's all the way to hang wireless, wireless almost were pressed to lift their heads.
Even Jiasi had a better time than Wireless in the first two years.
But wireless is wireless, in the chairman of the board of directors Li Xiaohua and because of health reasons to retire to the second line, completely dominant Shao Yifu is also a generation of sophisticated, these two years by tapping the potential, but also wireless artist training courses to provide them with new people, as well as Shaw's film and television staff can come over to help, so it is also slowing down, and in turn, and steadily pressed the Li's a head, and re-consolidated their own position as the leader of the.
However, on the other hand, because Jia TV failed to maintain the consistent burning money, Liang Shuyi in many aspects of the work is not smooth, so from last year onwards, has shown the decline.
Especially after "Dream of the Red Chamber", which started broadcasting in October last year, suffered a fiasco in the ratings, the huge loss-making Jia TV was even worse, and rumors of Jia TV's unsustainability have been circulating lately.
Therefore, inside the Hing Kee Tea Restaurant, although the personnel of the three TV stations all come to eat from time to time, but the wireless ones are the most high and mighty, Li's are also full of confidence, and the only one who is downcast is the person from Jia TV.
But Jia TV is not in despair, because they have now started a new round of battle plan, according to the vein of their usual discussion, Jia TV is preparing for the "July Offensive", trying to turn the tide of the battle and regain vitality.
Why "July Offensive"?
Because August is the next year's advertising conference for Jia TV.
The most important thing for a free TV station is advertisement revenue, and it will not last long if it is invested by shareholders alone.
If it can't have good advertising revenue at that time, then Jia TV will definitely be very difficult, and I'm afraid it will be finished by the end of the year.
After all, from the 74 years of planning, 75 years of digging, Jia TV in large sums of money, so smashed a few years, but still can not see a good return, or even advertising revenue to compensate for the loss of the signs are not, these investment shareholders, it is difficult to be interested in investing again.
As it happens, what the people of Hong Kong lack the most is patience, so even if they have paid so much effort before, they will not hesitate to cut off this investment.
In order to attack in July, the most important thing for Jia TV now is to start looking for good scripts to film, and there are several TV dramas to be launched that have already been confirmed. In addition, it is planned that in May, they will run publicity for the whole of Hong Kong, hoping to let more people come to see their programs, so as to get good ratings and induce advertisers to spend a lot of money next year.
On the other hand, there is also a bit of panic on the Jia TV side.
Yin Jun has already seen a lot of people from TVB or Li's trying to poach staff and actors from Jia TV.
Now that there is a contract in place, there is no way to tell, but if there are any problems with Jiawei, then these people will definitely be divided up by Wireless and Li's. There are also many of Jiawei's own people.
There are also many people in Jiawei who are looking for a way out, and they don't want to lose their jobs.
Although many people are not optimistic about Jia TV, but only Yin Jun knows best, Jia TV this hurdle is really did not pass, at the end of August directly collapsed, even the end of the year did not last.
However, after the Jiawei how, Yin Jun is the same to them, he needs a chance, but certainly not now.
Need more time, more contact to understand these directors and producers, especially the executive producers, before knowing which one can help him succeed.
In Hong Kong, from the past to the future, the biggest TV drama is not the director, but the executive producer ...... Even in the movie is also like this, many executive producers are bigger than the director, many directors are called "executive director" is very appropriate.
Back then, when the "Sisters of the Dead" was filmed, although the director was written by Cheng Xiaodong, but who does not know that the executive producer Xu Ke, is the most important person? Every picture can be filled with Xu Laoqi's style ah!
Therefore, if Yin Jun wanted to cast the script, it was most appropriate to find an executive producer.
As long as the executive producer agreed to shoot the book, then the TV station would only consider buying the script.
Of course, the bigger the supervising producer's card, the better, such as Wireless' Wang Tianlin, such as Jia TV's Xiao Sheng, such as Li's McDonald's Bear, if they see Yin Jun's script, then 100% will be given a lot of attention, making "Pao Ching Tien" a hit.
But Yin Jun wasn't that greedy and wouldn't be so blind to himself.
With his status and position, wanting to hand these guys a script right now was something that was simply harder than heaven.
These famous producers all had their own script teams, and over the years, had formed their tacit cooperation, and it was simply impossible for them to accept other people's scripts out of the blue - and that was referring to the company's in-house screenwriters, not to mention a newcomer like Yin Jun who was anything but.
For example, McDonald's Bear only liked to use Xiao Ruoyuan's scripts, and he only liked to tell Xiao Ruoyuan the stories he wanted to do and let Xiao Ruoyuan write them.
Therefore, one of Yin Jun's realistic ideas was to find an okay supervising producer, or at least one that could just have a stable airtime.
With the quality of Pao Qing Tian, as long as it was given the time to air, no matter when it was, it would surely blossom quickly, thus gaining everyone's craze.
As this masterpiece that had already been tested by countless people in the future, with Yin Jun's careful gatekeeping, there was obviously no reason for it to miss the mark.