As time entered December, the first round of negotiations between China and the UK finally ended. Both sides said that this was a friendly negotiation and made phased progress.
Although it was not disclosed what progress had been made, the Hong Kong stock market, which had been falling for nearly a month, finally stabilized. At this time, the Hang Seng Index had fallen to 676.30 points, with a drop of 60.
After the positive news came out of Sino-UK negotiations, the Hong Kong stock market, which fell to the bottom, began to slowly rebound, with all stocks rising, and land prices and property prices also rising.
But this does not mean that the Hong Kong stock market has improved. In another time and space, the Sino-UK negotiations took more than two years. The Hong Kong stock market fluctuated several times in the past two years, and each time it was a big ups and downs.
Once bad news comes out of China-UK negotiations, and the British side secretly incites public opinion, the Hong Kong stock market will immediately fall sharply. After a few months of decline, good news will be heard from both China and Britain after a round of talks, and the stock market will start to be bullish again. Then it falls, rises, and falls again. In more than two years, the Hang Seng Index has changed repeatedly between 600 and 1,000 points, and investors are like riding a roller coaster. Even the best financial experts traders are confused and confused when they see the Hong Kong stock market in the past two years.
If Kang Jianfei chose to trade stocks, he would probably be killed by the changes in the Hong Kong stock market.
On December 3, on the first day when the Hong Kong stock market began to recover, "The Voice of China" officially started broadcasting on Phoenix Chinese.
"The Voice of China" began preparations three months ago, and selected some outstanding contestants one after another and provided simple training. It was not until last month that the recording finally started.
It is also difficult to choose from the four mentors, mainly because "The Voice of China" was created by Fengxing Records and Phoenix Channel. After the singer becomes famous, he will be given priority to being signed by Fengxing Records.
If we invite singers from other record companies to be mentors, it is equivalent to cultivating newcomers for their competitors. Which big company is willing to do it?
For example, Alan Tam is very popular in Hong Kong and has enough qualifications. It is very appropriate to ask him to be a mentor. But Alan Tam is now signing with Polykin. Polykin’s request is: Alan Tam can be a "judgment" of the program (Polikin’s people understand it so much), but Polykin’s newcomers discovered by this program can be selected with Polykin Records.
Fengxing Records flatly refused, saying that it would give it to Polykin only if it chose the rest. In the end, the two sides broke up even though they had no agreement.
After the program team scratched their heads, the four mentors finally got together, namely Zhen Ni, Xu Xiaofeng, Lin Zixiang and Su Rui.
Jenny Jen has been in the industry for more than ten years, and her record has broken the Hong Kong sales record. The martial arts songs she sang with Rowan in recent years have become very popular in Hong Kong and are enough to serve as a mentor.
Although Lin Zixiang's record sales are not too high, he is both a singer and a music producer. He is more qualified than Jenny Jennie in terms of professional nature, and he has also had a great influence in the filming industry in recent years.
Not to mention Xu Xiaofeng, she is the most popular Hong Kong female singer in recent years; while Su Rui is a little less famous in Hong Kong, she is a queen-level singer in Taiwan and Nanyang.
Most importantly, there is no record company obstruction behind these four people.
Jenny Zhen set up her own Golden Note Records last year and is already the owner of a small record company. She only has a cooperative relationship with Fengxing Records but no competition;
Lin Zixiang's wife is the general manager of Warner Records Hong Kong. He always takes records and movies, and lives a very chic life;
Xu Xiaofeng has withdrawn from Polygon and join Kangyi Chengyin Records. The new company is much easier to talk to than her old boss.
As for the remaining Su Rui, she is the mainstay of Fengxing Records.
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Seeing that the show was about to start, Huang Xizhao asked McDonald Bear with some concern: "Dangxiong, what are the ratings of "The Voice of China"?"
McDonald Bear is the program director of the TV station, but not just the TV series producer. Although the director of "The Voice of China" is Su Dingshan, McDonald Bear is often making the decision.
McDonald Bear conservatively estimated: "It should be more than 25 o'clock."
If it is 20 years later, if a variety show has a viewership of more than 25 points, it will definitely be a big hit.
But now it is different. For example, the program with the highest ratings among the three TV stations in Taiwan is not a TV series but "Variety Show 100", and it has the highest ratings for several consecutive years.
Although TVB's "Happy Tonight" is not as powerful as "Variety 100", its ratings remain above 40 points all year round, while the ratings of Lishi's variety shows in the past were generally above 15 points.
Among the new programs created by Kang Jianfei, the documentary "Exploration and Discovery" has the lowest ratings, with each episode around 7 o'clock, which is basically considered aborted. "Changqiang Threesome" is slightly higher, with an average rating of around 11 o'clock. Although it is also very useless, fortunately the production fee is also very low.
Only "Happy 60 Points" has the best results, and its ratings even exceeded 30 points at one point. In one episode, it almost made the chrysanthemum of "Happy Tonight".
Now the TV station has made adjustments to reduce the broadcast time of "Exploration and Discovery" to 30 minutes, and then it is equipped with short dramas before it is broadcast. "Changqiang Threesome" is also the same. Both short dramas are broadcast continuously after the show, and these two programs are only broadcast on Mondays and Tuesdays with the worst viewing conditions. Wednesday to Sunday are used to broadcast "Happy 60" and the previous variety shows of the TV station.
McDonald Bear watched the first episode of "The Voice of China" in advance. He felt that this show should be popular, but whether it is good or not has to be decided by the audience.
Huang Xizhao was anxious. Although the ratings of TVB often suppressed TVB after the reorganization of Phoenix TV, he was still not happy.
When Lisboa was the best in the past, the market share of the wireless ratings was only 3:7. The main reason was that the other party's "Happy Tonight" ratings were too terrifying.
Now the market share of Phoenix and Wireless TV has increased to 4:6. It seems that the ratings have increased a lot, but the cost and expenses have also increased significantly.
Not to mention Kang Jianfei's "The Legend of Qin", which costs an average of 22,000 yuan per episode, just taking "The Voice of China" as an example, it will cost 600,000 yuan to invite four mentors to record the program in each episode. If the ratings of "The Voice of China" are below 30 points, then Phoenix TV will lose to death.
Huang Xizhao also estimated based on experience two days ago that since the opening of Phoenix TV Station, although the TV series has been rated for a long time, the maximum money earned on the TV station is only 20 to 30 million yuan.
"What do you think of splitting the entire production department of the TV station?"
Huang Xizhao suddenly remembered Kang Jianfei's words again. Phoenix TV's biggest expense is to raise a large number of actors and behind the scenes. The production fee for a single episode of a TV series is only more than 10,000, but if all members of the crew are manually distributed, the cost per episode is at least tens of thousands, because these people have to get a salary if they don't film.
Perhaps, it is time to get rid of the production department! Huang Xizhao couldn't help but think of it.
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In a residential building in Wan Chai, 15-year-old Li Keqin threw down his pen and urged his father: "Lao Dou, go to Phoenix Chinese Channel!"
Li's father yawned and said, "What to change? "Happy Tonight" is about to start broadcasting."
Li Keqin said anxiously: "Phoenix Channel's "The Voice of China" will be aired today!"
"What a good voice?" Li's father asked.
"The Voice of China", a singing program, Xu Xiaofeng, Lin Zixiang, Zhen Ni and Su Rui are guests!" said Li Keqin.
"Ten Ni is a guest? She rarely goes on TV!" Li's father quickly moved to Phoenix Channel. Their whole family moved from Macau, and Zhen Ni is also from Macau. Li's father's favorite singer is Zhen Ni.
Li Keqin said excitedly: "Yes, Phoenix Station is really a big deal this time. Xu Xiaofeng and Zhen Ni are hard to invite one, so they actually invited them together."
The father and son waited for a few minutes with 20,000 expectations, and "The Voice of China" finally officially began.
"Hello, everyone, welcome to the "The Voice of China" which was named and broadcasted by Rolex watch..."
The show started with a gorgeous stage, and the audience was densely packed with audiences. Lee Keqin and his son were stunned after just one look. This is not a TV show. Such a big scene is simply a concert.
Because the studio of Phoenix TV is too small, "The Voice of China" went directly to Taiping Theater to record. After advance publicity, the names of Xu Xiaofeng and the other four attracted many fans. These fans bought tickets and became the live audience of the show.
The high tutor invitation fee for each episode of 600,000 yuan was paid, so Phoenix Station naturally no longer cared about those films. When recording the program, it directly used six cameras, which was more luxurious than most Hong Kong movies.
Fortunately, you can earn a lot of money by selling tickets for live audiences, otherwise Phoenix Station will not be able to recover the cost at all. As for the money for renting Taiping Theater, it is basically a waste of money. Zhang Mo just pulled all the people and then replaced the iron seats on the third floor of the theater, and it has not officially started business.
After the host talked about a series of advertisement names, four superstars, Xu Xiaofeng, Zhen Ni, Lin Zixiang and Su Rui, sang on stage continuously. Everything was made according to the specifications of the concert, and the thousands of fans who entered the venue were excited and screamed.
After the instructor finished singing, he immediately left the show, sat on four characteristic chairs to face the audience, and the host began to tell the rules of the program.
"Can you really become their disciple?" Li Keqin felt itchy and regretted that he did not sign up for the competition.
The so-called disciples are naturally gimmicks, but they will indeed receive limited guidance from the four mentors.
For those young people who love to sing, being able to match Xu Xiaofeng and others is simply a sprint to the sky.
Chapter completed!