In the future, the popularity and influence of television will definitely be far greater than that of theaters.
What he cannot accept is Mr. Shao's behavior of cutting off the development of the film business and betting heavily on TVB.
Both parties reached a consensus.
Then Cao Weidong asked Zou Wenhuai if he knew the senior management of Li's.
He wants to talk to Li's executives.
Zou Wenhuai frowned and thought for a moment before saying.
"I have dealt with Li's before and know some senior executives. I can arrange for you to meet with them."
"But you should talk to Li's parent company in the UK about the acquisition of Li's. Li's here is only responsible for operations and does not have such rights."
"And as far as I know, Li's also has many small shareholders in the local area. If you want to acquire Li's, you must obtain their consent."
Cao Weidong smiled.
"I'm just checking in. I want to know Li's current business situation so that I can be prepared when negotiating with Li's parent company."
Zou Wenhuai understood.
Then he patted his chest and expressed that he had left the matter to him and would definitely help Cao Weidong get it done.
......
Didn't keep Cao Weidong waiting for long.
A week later, the opportunity finally came.
At a private banquet, Cao Weidong met Mr. Fritz Heaton, the person in charge of Li's company in Hong Kong City.
He is the general manager of Lai's company in Hong Kong.
Mr. Heaton is a typical white elite, about thirty or forty years old, wearing a decent suit and a top hat, looking like a successful man.
Zou Wenhuai took Cao Weidong over and introduced him.
"Mr. Heaton is the general manager sent by the British parent company and is responsible for all Li's affairs in Hong Kong."
However, Cao Weidong's eyes passed directly over Heaton and fell on a middle-aged man next to him.
Huang Xizhao!
Cao Weidong recognized this person at a glance.
Because this is one of the talents he has always paid close attention to.
......
Mr. Huang Xizhao became the general manager of "Lida Yingsheng" in 1975, and was also the first Chinese general manager of Li's.
Before Huang Xizhao took office, TVB suppressed Li unilaterally.
But after Huang Xizhao took office, this situation changed qualitatively.
Mr. Huang Xizhao boldly hired new talents and discovered a group of young and powerful production talents.
For example, McDonald's, Li Zhaoxiong, and Tu Yongxiong are known as the "Three Beautiful Heroes".
"Masters of screenwriting" Xiao Ruoyuan, Xu Xiaoming, etc.
Under the leadership of Huang Xizhao, Li's continued to release excellent works, and competed with TVB in a back-and-forth, exciting competition.
It can be said that that was the most glorious era of Li TV.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The investment by the British company Li's parent company failed. In order to make money, the parent company chose to package Li's TV portfolio and sell it to an Australian consortium.
After the Australian consortium acquired Li's TV, in order to smoothly take over the entire business of Li's TV, it vigorously cleaned up the backbone of the original Li's TV.
Former general manager Huang Xizhao resigned.
His subordinates, including McDonald, Xiao Ruoyuan and Huang Tailai, resigned and left together.
The reason why Li's TV was able to compete with Wireless in the first place was because of the existence of this group of people. To force these people away would be tantamount to digging their own graves for Li's TV.
However, the people in the Australian consortium were short-sighted and turned a blind eye to these things. Instead, they were immersed in the joy of taking over Li's TV station.
The backlash came quickly.
Although the change of rights was successfully completed, the people in the Australian consortium were shocked to realize that Li TV was already an empty shell. There was almost no one in the company who could fight.
On the other hand, TVB not only absorbed many talented people from the original TVB during the turbulent period of TVB, but also, under the leadership of Mr. Shao, climbed to the altar of TVB through TVB.
After a year of struggling, the Australian consortium couldn't bear the dismal ratings and financial problems of Lai, and sold Lai's TV station to Hong Kong tycoon Qiu Degen.
After Qiu Degen acquired Li's, he changed the name of Li's TV station to Asia Television and hosted a banquet for Li's original team in an attempt to make a comeback.
Unfortunately, today is different from the past.
The direct descendants of Li in the past now have their own paths.
Xiao Sheng switched to TVB, and together with Wang Tianlin, he was known as TVB's "fat and thin TV strongman" and was Mr. Shao's right-hand man.
The two golden combinations of McDonald's and Xiao Ruoyuan have become the upstarts of the film industry.
Shi Nansheng and her husband Xu Ke entered Xinyi City and became one of the seven weirdos in Xinyi City.
Without these talents, ATV could no longer recover and eventually reached the point of no return.
Cao Weidong often wonders, if Huang Xizhao and his group of fierce men had not left Li's, would the outcome have changed?
Thinking of this, Cao Weidong became more determined to acquire Li.
.......
"Weidong, Weidong."
Zou Wenhuai gently touched Cao Weidong with his elbow.
Cao Weidong came to his senses.
"So you are Mr. Cao Weidong, whom I have admired for a long time..."
As the saying goes, people are reflected in the shadow of famous trees. Naturally, Heaton also knew Cao Weidong, one of the two giants of Jiahe, so he suppressed the arrogance on his face and chatted with Cao Weidong politely.
Hearing that Cao Weidong is a British overseas Chinese, Heaton mentioned many of his past experiences in the UK.
Cao Weidong did his homework in advance and answered questions fluently.
Heaton nodded frequently, feeling that Cao Weidong was very angry with him.
So he quickly got to the point and asked:
"Mr. Cao, I don't know what kind of cooperation you want to discuss with me this time?"
Cao Weidong also said directly.
"Mr. Heaton, let me tell you directly. I know that the development of TVB has had a great impact on Li, which has caused problems in your company's operations. I can help you solve these problems."
Heaton was stunned and asked curiously.
"Oh, I wonder how you are going to help me solve the problem?"
Of course Cao Weidong would not foolishly say that he planned to acquire Li's.
He expressed that he wanted to invest in Li's, and provide funds and talents to Li's for comprehensive cooperation.
Heaton was very happy.
After all, who can have trouble with money?
Coupled with the fact that Cao Weidong kept hating Heaton, Heaton was so praised that he lost his ability to speak out a lot of confidential information about the company.
This made Huang Xizhao anxious to death.
He kept winking at Heaton, signaling him to pay attention to his words.
This made Heaton unhappy.
Heaton glared at Huang Xizhao and said coldly.
"If I remember correctly, you still have work to finish, so you should go back first. I'll be fine here."
Huang Xizhao didn't expect Heaton to say such things on such occasions, so he could only hide his embarrassment with a smile, and then chose to leave.
Cao Weidong watched silently.
It is now 2001, and there are less than four years left before Huang Xizhao takes over as the general manager of Li. It seems that during this period, the other party has not been taken seriously.
At least he did not receive attention commensurate with his talents.
If the plan to acquire Li's radio station does not go well, then he will poach Huang Xizhao for his own use.
Cao Weidong's eyes were dark and he was thinking silently.