Chapter 214 This is definitely a big earthquake in the Hong Kong entertainment industry!
In the large conference room of TVB, a group of senior executives had been noisily arguing for almost a whole morning. Chen Jianxing was unable to save the situation alone, and the opinion in favor of the sale prevailed.
Chen Jianxing looked at the group of shareholders in the conference room and had a clear understanding in his heart. If he wanted TVB to regain its glory, the first step was to find a way to clean up these shareholders who were holding them back.
Back then, Mr. Shao was able to suppress this group of shareholders from acting recklessly. Unfortunately, he lacked such prestige and could not suppress these shareholders.
"Since you insist on selling the film library, I can't object."
"However, I think we have to sell it at a good price. ATV is now focused on purchasing the film library. I think it is not impossible to ask for 300 million."
Chen Jianxing watched everyone say this, and everyone was stunned for a moment. This Chen Jianxing changed too quickly. He was opposed just now, but in the blink of an eye he said he would sell it for 300 million.
"Director Chen, I think a certain director should be responsible for contacting ATV to negotiate the sale of the film library."
"I'm very worried that the price of 300 million yuan will not be accepted by ATV, or that Chairman Chen and ATV will ask for a price exceeding 300 million yuan."
"I hope Mr. Chen will forgive me for what I said is wrong. I am not dealing with the situation and the person."
Mai Wenli said this calmly, "300 million, do you really think those people at ATV are fools?"
Don't think that I don't know what you are thinking.
If you want to increase the selling price and stir up trouble, there is no way.
After listening to Mai Wenli's words, many people realized that they objected to Chen Jianxing's presiding over this matter. A certain shareholder should talk to ATV about this matter and sign the contract and collect the money immediately after the agreement was reached.
"Ms. Mai is right. I don't think I'm good at business and I don't have much talent. If I were put in the position of general manager of ATV, I would not agree to the price of 300 million yuan."
"I would rather give up than agree to this price, because 250 million is already high-end."
"Think about it, directors. We are secretly looking for a buyer. There is no way that ATV doesn't know about the 170 million sale of the film library."
"Now the other party is offering 250 million yuan, completely with the mentality of avoiding numbness and solving it all at once."
"I'm sure if we raise the price, ATV will 100% give up"
"Director Chen, do you dare to bet?"
"Just bet 100 million, and the deadline is fifteen days."
"If ATV accepts a price higher than 250 million, I will lose, and I will pay 100 million as dividends to shareholders."
"If ATV doesn't accept it, even if you accept it, how about you use 100 million to give us dividends."
Liang Minghe watched Chen Jianxing say these words, and many directors present nodded in agreement. Now they all saw that Chen Jianxing planned to use the price as an excuse to disrupt this transaction.
The flesh on Chen Jianxing's face was throbbing and numb. Liang Minghe, a dandy, had no ability to accomplish anything, and his ability to do bad things was really first-rate.
Having said that, Chen Jianxing was really helpless at this point.
Finally, we came up with a plan. Karl, the representative of the major shareholder HSBC, went to talk to ATV about the matter and tried to raise the price as much as possible. If it didn't work, the price of 250 million was acceptable.
Chen Jianxing is prohibited from participating in this matter.
The meeting ended, and Chen Jianxing sat alone in the office without moving. He looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was already twelve twenty-seven.
The sun is shining brightly outside, but TVB is starting to go downhill.
I have the desire to return to heaven, but I don’t have the power to return to heaven.
Naihe, Ruzhinaihe!
Chen Jianxing sat blankly with a gloomy face, and outsiders did not dare to approach him. He sat blankly alone for more than 20 minutes, with an ever-changing expression on his face.
After his face slowly returned to calm, Chen Jianxing stood up and left the conference room.
This matter was no joke, Chen Jianxing secretly made up his mind.
After lunch, at around three o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Jianxing called the backstage boss Li's phone number in the office.
After a short time, Chen Jianxing hung up the phone with a disappointed look on his face.
Boss Li is not in Xiangjiang City, but is dealing with some difficult matters in the UK. We can only discuss this matter when Boss Li comes back to Xiangjiang.
That night, ATV's Li Xuejian met with HSBC representative Carl at the St. Mary's restaurant. The two had a nice meal, drink and chat.
In name, they were discussing ATV's acquisition of the film library. In fact, the two did not discuss the matter at all. They had already reached an agreement on the matter long before ATV launched the acquisition.
Now, it's just a show of chatting, drinking and tasting delicious food.
We will meet tonight, and tomorrow we will meet again at ATV to act, and the day after tomorrow we will directly sign a contract to announce the matter.
One night passed.
The next day, Karl brought his people to ATV openly and started talking to ATV people about the acquisition of the TVB film library. The whole morning ended with a row.
ATV does not intend to provide prices and will not increase them by a penny.
If TVB does not accept this price, ATV will abandon the acquisition.
The news was fed back to the shareholders of TVB, and many expressed their intention to ask Carl to agree to sell.
Karl was very smart and asked the shareholders who agreed to fax him a fax agreeing to the sale, to prove that the matter was approved by the board of directors and that he was only handling the matter in accordance with the board of directors' resolution.
Two days passed slowly. Li Xuejian took people to TVB and signed a formal contract with the people from TVB.
ATV spent 250 million to acquire TVB's film library. All the copyrights for the thousands of film and television works in the film library belong to ATV.
After the contract was signed, the two parties held a joint press conference. Karl attended the meeting on behalf of the TVB board of directors, but Chen Jianxing was so angry that he did not attend the press conference at all.
Both parties announced the matter in front of the large and small media in Xiangjiang City. Karl announced on the spot that the funds obtained from the sale of the film library will be used to update TV station equipment and shoot new dramas.
The reporters present were shocked, wondering whether they had something wrong with their ears and heard wrongly.
Everyone had expressions of disbelief on their faces.
They asked their companions, pinched their thighs, and some even slapped themselves, and finally confirmed that this matter was true.
Big earthquake! This is definitely a big earthquake in the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang!
Both ATV and TVB broadcast the press conference live, and the news spread quickly.
Too many people had expressions of disbelief when they received the news. TVB's film library represents an era, a glorious era of Hong Kong entertainment.
Coupled with ATV's current film library, it can be said that the entire glory of Hong Kong's entertainment industry belongs to ATV.
That day's evening newspapers and the Internet began to report this incident, and everyone who saw the news was shocked.
No matter how shocked you are, it can't change this fact. As long as ATV pays 250 million within two days, no one can stop this.
The stock market reacted immediately, and TVB's stock price began to rebound and rise.
The capital circle believes that TVB’s approach is correct. It abandons these worthless industries in exchange for funds for development, so that it can travel lightly in the future.
One day later, ATV's 250 million was deposited into TVB's designated account, and the transaction was officially completed.
Three days later, ATV held a press conference, and Li Xuejian announced in front of everyone that the transaction was completed.
All the films in the TVB film library have been moved to the ATV film library. ATV spent US$6 million to purchase film restoration equipment and will repair all the films in the film library.
Soon, people will be able to watch these restored videos simply by clicking on the Starlight Video website.
As TVB's stock price has surged in recent days, the board of directors has begun to quarrel again.
A group of shareholders headed by Karl, Mai Wenli, and Liang Minghe saw the stock surge and began to initiate a proposal to completely abandon independent filming.
In the future, TVB will purchase videos to play and those films that have been tested by the market and have ratings, in order to expand the TV station's profits.
If all the currently contracted artists are discarded, the operating costs of the TV station will directly drop by 30%, and the profits will also increase by 30%.
If you combine one positive and one negative, the profit gained will be more than 30%.
This proposal made many shareholders interested.
The meeting was very intense. It was said that Chen Jianxing's eyes were red and he was planning to take action against Liang Minghe. Seeing Chen Jianxing's fierce opposition, the board of directors did not come up with a resolution for the time being.
However, this matter was inevitably leaked out, and all TVB contracted artists were dumbfounded, and everyone began to worry.
Now no one is raising salary, and it is still unknown whether the current salary can be maintained.
ATV has not yet made a clear statement. How to live in the future has become something that many people need to seriously think about.
Early in the morning, dense crowds of people left their residences and headed towards the company's headquarters. The buildings in Ykesong Commercial District were like an ant nest, receiving entry from all kinds of people.
Duan Daolin also came to Yisong early today. Gao Jin wants to see him today.
After Gao Jin came to work, Duan Daolin waited for fifteen minutes before coming over to see Gao Jin. Gao Jin invited him to the side to drink tea and discuss.
I called Duan Daolin here today to talk about one thing: Starlight Video will be relocated to Yikesong Commercial District.
"Chairman, I have always been prepared for this. I started making preparations for this when I was reorganizing the four video companies."
"As long as the server is prepared here, I can start the relocation process at any time."
"It's just that I recommend moving to Rizao City, but I don't recommend moving to Shangjing City."
Duan Daolin said this truthfully. It turned out that as the deputy general manager of the Goose Factory Video Website, he had already considered this matter.
When the newly acquired Huhu Video, pp Video, Qijianfang Video, and 666 Video were acquired, Duan Daolin had already begun preparations in this regard.
Clearly tell all employees to prepare for the company's relocation, either to Shangjing City, the imperial capital, or to the Xingling Group headquarters in Rizao City.
"Tell me your reasons"
Gao Jin said something casually. Now Gao Jin can listen to Jin's different opinions.
"cost issue"
"The cost of living in Shangjing City is too high, especially the rent, which is several times higher than that in Rizao City. Once all the employees of the four video companies move here, we will be forced to fully increase the salary structure."
"Enterprise office expenses will also rise significantly."
"Except for Huhu Video, the other video websites acquired are not located in Shangjing City, the imperial capital. It will be very troublesome to relocate all the personnel to the imperial capital."
"This increase is not a small increase, but a substantial increase. Otherwise, employees will not be able to meet their basic living needs in the imperial capital."
"On the other hand, if we move to Rizao Market, we won't have this concern."
"Although there will be a small increase in salary, this increase is to optimize the personnel structure."
"Of these two adjustment methods, one costs more and the other costs less."
Duan Daolin expressed all his considerations. It was Gao Jin's business to make the decision, and he did everything he could.
Ground hardening begins, the river water purification system that runs through the entire park begins to be installed, and the renovation of the underground parking lot begins to enter the renovation stage. Don't underestimate this renovation, the cost is much greater than the construction of the entire park. It begins to unfold.