Time has entered December, and the first round of the first phase of negotiations between China and the UK has finally concluded. Both sides said that this was a friendly negotiation and that progress had been made in stages.
Although no progress was disclosed, 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, a drop of 60%.
After the good news came out of the Sino-British negotiations, the Hong Kong stock market, which had hit rock bottom, began to slowly recover. All stocks were bullish, and land and property prices were also rising.
But this does not mean that the Hong Kong stock market has improved. In another time and space, Sino-British negotiations lasted for more than two years. The Hong Kong stock market has experienced major fluctuations several times in these two years, with big ups and downs each time.
Once bad news came out of the Sino-British negotiations, and the British secretly incited public opinion, the Hong Kong stock market immediately fell sharply. After a few months of decline, good news came out after the first round of talks between China and Britain, and the stock market began to rise again.
Then it fell again, rose again, and fell again. For more than two years, the Hang Seng Index fluctuated repeatedly between 600 points and 1,000 points, and investors were like riding a roller coaster. Even the best financial institutions
Expert traders are completely confused when looking at the Hong Kong stock market in the past two years.
If Kang Jianfei had chosen to trade in the stock market, he would probably have been fascinated by the magical changes in Hong Kong's stock market.
On December 3, the first day that the Hong Kong stock market began to recover, "The Voice of China" was officially launched on Phoenix Chinese Channel.
The preparations for "The Voice of China" began three months ago. Some outstanding contestants were successively selected and given simple training. It was not until last month that the recording finally started.
It is also difficult to choose the four mentors. The main reason is that "The Voice of China" is jointly produced by Fengxing Records and Phoenix TV. After singers become famous, they will be signed by Fengxing Records first.
If they invite singers from other record companies to be mentors, they are training new talents for their competitors. Which big company would be willing to do that?
For example, Alan Tam is very popular in Hong Kong and has sufficient qualifications. It is very suitable to ask him to be a mentor. But Alan Tam is currently signed by PolyGram, and PolyGram’s request is that Alan Tam can be a "judge" for the program (PolyGram's
People understand this), but for the new talents discovered by this program, PolyGram Records can be chosen together with Fengxing Records.
Fengxing Records flatly refused, saying that they would only hand over the rest to PolyGram. In the end, the two parties could not reach an agreement and broke up.
After a lot of scratching by the program team, the four mentors were finally gathered together. They are Zhen Ni, Xu Xiaofeng, Lin Zixiang and Su Rui.
Jenny Tseng has been in the industry for more than ten years, and her records have broken Hong Kong's sales record. In recent years, the martial arts songs she sang with Luo Wen have become very popular in Hong Kong, and she is enough to serve as a mentor.
Although the sales of Lin Zixiang's records are not very high, he is both a singer and a music producer, and professionally he is more qualified than Jenny Jing. Moreover, his influence in the film industry has been great in recent years.
Not to mention Tsui Siu-fung, who is considered the most popular Hong Kong female singer in recent years; and Su Rui, although less well-known in Hong Kong, is a queen-level singer in Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
The most important thing is that there is no record company obstruction behind these four people.
Jenny Jenny established her own Golden Note Record Company last year and is already the owner of a small record company. She only has a cooperative relationship with Fengxing Records and does not compete with her;
Lin Zixiang’s wife is the general manager of Warner Music Hong Kong. He is free to release records and movies. He lives a very free and unrestrained life;
Xu Xiaofeng has quit PolyGram and joined Kangyi Chengyin Records. The new company is much easier to talk to than her old employer.
As for the remaining Su Rui, she is the mainstay of Pop Records.
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Seeing that the show was about to start, Huang Xizhao asked McDonald's Bear with some worry: "Dangxiong, what do you estimate the ratings of "The Voice of China" will be?"
McDang Xiong is the program director of the TV station, not just the TV series producer. Although the program director of "The Voice of China" is Su Dingshan, it is often McDang Bear who makes the decisions.
McDonald's conservatively estimated: "It should be more than 25 points."
If it were placed 20 years later and the ratings of a variety show exceeded 25 points, it would definitely be a huge hit.
But things are different now. For example, the program with the highest ratings among Taiwan's three TV stations is not a TV series but "Variety Show 100", and it has ranked first in ratings for several consecutive years.
Although TVB's "Happy Tonight" is not as powerful as "Variety Show 100", the ratings have remained above 40 points all year round. In the past, the ratings of LiTV's variety shows were generally above 15 points.
Among the several new programs produced by Kang Jianfei, the documentary program "Discovery" has the lowest ratings. Each episode is around 7 o'clock, which is basically a waste. "Threesome" is slightly higher, with an average ratings of
It's about 11 o'clock. Although it's very useless, fortunately, the production cost is also very low.
Only "Happy 60 Minutes" had the best results, with ratings even exceeding 30 points at one point. One episode almost blew up the anus of "Happy Tonight".
Now the TV station has made adjustments, compressing the broadcast time of "Discovery" to 30 minutes, and then adding a short drama before it is broadcast. The same is true for "Qiang Qiang Threesome", all short dramas are connected before and after the program.
These two programs are only broadcast on Mondays and Tuesdays when the ratings are the worst. From Wednesday to Sunday, they are all used to broadcast "60 Minutes" and the TV station's previous variety shows.
McDonald's has watched the complete first episode of "The Voice of China" in advance. He feels that this program should be popular, but whether it is good or not depends on the audience.
Huang Xizhao, on the other hand, was anxious. Although after the reorganization of Phoenix Channel, the ratings often exceeded those of TVB, he still couldn't be happy.
In the past, when LiTV was doing its best, its market share with TVB in terms of ratings was only 3:7. The main reason was that the ratings of the other party's "Happy Tonight" were too terrible.
Today, the market share of the ratings of Phoenix Channel and Wireless Channel 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 "Looking for Qin" with an average production cost of 22,000 per episode, take this "The Voice of China" as an example. It will cost 600,000 just to hire four instructors to record the program for each episode. If "The Voice of China"
If the ratings are below 30 points, Phoenix TV will lose money.
Huang Xizhao made an estimate based on experience two days ago. In the past few months since the launch of Phoenix TV, although the TV series has received huge ratings, the station has only made two to three million at most.
"What do you think about dividing the TV station's entire production department?"
Huang Xizhao suddenly remembered Kang Jianfei's words. Phoenix TV's biggest expense is to maintain a large number of actors and behind-the-scenes. The production cost of a single episode of a TV series is only more than 10,000, but if the labor of all members of the crew is divided into
If so, the cost of each episode is at least tens of thousands, because these people have to get paid even when they are not filming.
Maybe, it’s time to get rid of the production department! Huang Xizhao couldn’t help but think.
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In an apartment building in Wan Chai, 15-year-old Hacken Li put down his pen and urged his father: "Dad, please switch to Phoenix Chinese Channel!"
Father Li yawned and said: "What should I change? "Happy Tonight" will be broadcast soon."
Li Keqin said anxiously: "Phoenix Channel's "The Voice of China" starts broadcasting today!"
"What's the good sound?" Father Li asked.
""The Voice of China" is a singing program. Xu Xiaofeng, Lin Zixiang, Zhen Ni and Su Rui are the guests!" said Hacken Li.
"Jenny is a guest? She rarely appears on TV!" Li's father quickly changed to Phoenix TV. Their whole family moved from Macau, and Jenny is also from Macau. Father Li's favorite singer is Jenny
.
Li Hackin said excitedly: "Yes, Phoenix Stage is really generous this time. It's hard to invite Xu Xiaofeng and Zhen Ni, but they are invited together."
The father and son waited with great anticipation for several minutes before "The Voice of China" finally officially started.
"Hello, everyone, welcome to "The Voice of China" broadcast under the title of Rolex..."
The show started with a gorgeous stage, and the audience was packed with people. Hacken Li and his son were stunned after just one glance. This was not a TV show. Such a big scene was like a concert.
Because Phoenix TV's studio is too small, "The Voice of China" went directly to the Taiping Theater to record. After prior publicity, the names of Xu Xiaofeng and the four people attracted many fans, and these fans bought tickets to enter.
, became a live audience of the show.
After paying the high mentor invitation fee of 600,000 per period, Phoenix Channel naturally no longer cares about those reels of film. It directly uses six cameras when recording the program, which is more luxurious than most movies in Hong Kong.
Fortunately, we can make a lot of money back by selling live audience tickets, otherwise Phoenix TV would not be able to recover the cost at all. As for the money to rent the Taiping Theater, it is basically free of charge. Zhang Mocai has just recruited all the people, and then moved the third floor of the theater
The iron seats have been replaced, but the business has not officially started yet.
After the host finished a series of advertisements, four superstars, Xu Xiaofeng, Jenny Yen, Lin Zixiang and Su Rui, performed on stage one after another. Everything was produced according to the specifications of the concert, attracting thousands of fans who bought "cheap tickets" to enter.
Screaming with excitement.
After the instructor finished singing, he immediately left the stage and sat on four special chairs facing the audience. The host began to explain the rules of the show.
"Can you really become their disciple?" Li Keqin felt itchy and regretted that he had not signed up to participate.
The so-called disciples are naturally a gimmick, but they will indeed receive limited guidance from the four mentors.
For those young people who love singing, being able to catch up with Xu Xiaofeng and others will simply make their rhythm soar to the sky.
The most interesting thing is that this program only listens to the singing without looking at the appearance, which makes the audience feel extremely novel. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian () to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is mine.
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