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Chapter 16 TV Production Center in Crisis

August 24, 2015, 10 am

Station Director Chen Changshan personally hosted the Dongshan TV Station senior leadership meeting in the conference room of Dongshan Radio and TV Station.

The main agenda of this Dongshan Taiwan high-level leadership meeting is to discuss the specific development direction of Taili in the second half of the year, and to implement the work arrangements of various departments based on the results of the meeting.

The two deputy directors Mo Dashan and Wu Mao, as well as heads of various departments of Dongshan TV Station, all attended the meeting.

In fact, Chen Changshan wanted to hold this meeting as early as July, but due to some reasons and the resistance of some people, it has been postponed until now.

Even if Chen Changshan had not suppressed all objections with his status as director of the station and the prestige he had achieved since taking office, the meeting might have continued to be delayed.

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"Ahem."

Chen Changshan was sitting in the main seat in the conference room, looking at the two deputy directors with different expressions on the left and right, coughing lightly, and went straight to the topic without any additional words.

"In the first half of this year, the station launched two new variety shows and revamped two old programs with good reputations. Overall, the results are good, the ratings have also increased steadily, and the advertising revenue has also increased significantly compared with the past.

Jiang Hao, your variety show department has done a good job, but you must not be complacent, keep up your efforts, and strive to continue to climb on the original results in the second half of the year."

After receiving the praise from the station director, Jiang Hao, the head of the variety show department, smiled brightly. He stood up and thanked Chen Changshan for his affirmation of the work of the variety show department. He also highlighted a few highlights of their variety show department's work in the first half of the year and made a report.

Finally, Jiang Hao expressed his position to Chen Changshan on behalf of all the staff of the Variety Show Department. They will definitely work together to create Dongshan Station's own ace variety show and live up to the station's high expectations for them.

Fang Weimin made two random scratches on his notes with the gel pen in his hand. He glanced at Jiang Hao, who was smiling so hard that he couldn't even open his eyes. He couldn't help but feel sour in his heart.

What's so great!

Among the several programs with good ratings, except for one, "Happy Dream Show", which is owned by the company, the rest are all outsourced variety shows.

Now that you are so bullish, if people don’t sell your program next year, let me see what you will do!

Director Fang Da, this is completely "unfounded worry".

There must be restrictions when TV stations outsource variety shows. Otherwise, if the show becomes popular and the variety show defectes to a rival station, then the original TV station will become the victim.

The official power that provincial-level TV stations can use is quite a lot. Entertainment companies will only dare to play this trick with them unless they want to get involved.

It's not uncommon for people to change jobs in variety shows, but they definitely break up amicably and peacefully, and they usually end up having a tough time, and they usually disappear.

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Regardless of Director Fang Da's inner slander, Director Chen Changshan continued to follow his own meeting procedures.

News Center, Personnel Department, Propaganda Department, Finance Department, Social Education Center, Literary and Art Center, Advertising Department, Technology Department, Satellite Transmission Center...

Chen Changshan took turns to name each department, and in the end only the TV Production Center, which was in charge of Fang Weimin, and the Purchasing Department, which was in charge of Wang Xia, were not mentioned by him.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little stagnant!

Many department heads looked at each other, knowing that this meeting was going to be a drama.

Judging from the seniority and proportion of various departments of Dongshan TV, the TV Production Center is undoubtedly the leader. Although it has declined a bit in recent years, it still has the foundation and is still at the forefront.

The purchasing department is a new department that was just established a few years ago. At first, it was just a small and transparent department and had no say at all in Taiwan.

Until last year, deputy director Wu Mao proposed a strategy of spending heavily on outsourcing dramas. The purchasing department quickly rose to prominence by riding on this shareholder trend, and now it seems to be a latecomer.

And coincidentally, at the same time, these two departments each represent Dongshan TV's two attitudes towards the planning and deployment of TV dramas.

Outsourced dramas vs homemade dramas

So far, the self-produced dramas represented by the TV Production Center have been completely at a disadvantage, and are even in danger of being abolished as a whole department. However, fortunately, Mo Dashan, the deputy director of the production center, is working in the background and can barely maintain the situation.

However, the purchasing department was not a freeloader. Seeing that Mo Dashan supported the production center, Wang Xia turned around and took the purchasing department to join Deputy Director Wu Maowu.

The proposal to spend heavily on outsourcing dramas originally came from Wu Mao's mouth, and the rise of the purchasing department is also inseparable from Wu Mao's support.

The cooperation between the two parties was quite involved. Lang Youqing and his concubine had long been interested, so without too much hesitation, Deputy Director Wu accepted the Procurement Department's offer and then took action against Mo Dashan.

The Purchasing Department has good results, strong opinions and full confidence.

Although the TV Production Center has not had any impressive results in recent years, it is a lean camel that is bigger than a horse, and its seniority and connections are spread throughout Dongshan TV Station, and even the provincial publicity center has many of them.

Therefore, so far, although the production center has lost to the strong purchasing department, it has not reached the point of complete collapse.

The two sides began a difficult tug-of-war!

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However, since it is a battle, it must end one day.

As the director of the station, Chen Changshan did not want to see internal friction within the station due to differences at the critical moment of the reform of Dongshan TV Station, so he wanted to use this high-level leadership meeting to clearly determine the main development policy of Dongshan TV drama in the future.

The two deputy directors and the heads of various departments knew what Chen Changshan meant, so some people delayed the convening of this meeting in every possible way, hoping to change the situation on their side at this time.

However, it is a pity that even if it is delayed for an extra month, there is still no significant change in the situation.

Therefore, when everyone saw that Chen Changshan put the TV Production Center and Purchasing Department at the end of the meeting, everyone had a vague feeling in their hearts.

What Chen Changshan is about to say will become a turning point in the tug-of-war between "outsourced dramas vs. homemade dramas" that has shocked the entire Dongshan TV!

Looking at Chen Changshan who was sitting in the main seat and considering his tone, Fang Weimin felt so nervous that he almost squeezed into a ball.

Even though the central air conditioner of the conference room was directly above his head, sweat still broke out on his nose and forehead. He stretched out his hand to loosen the tie around his neck. Director Fang Da's handsome face, which time could not destroy, actually had a hint of ferocity.

Wang Xia from the Purchasing Department was not in a relaxed mood. Her fingers were unconsciously playing with the notebook in front of her. She was not in the mood to hold up her wide-rimmed glasses that had almost sunk to the bridge of her nose. She was waiting for Chen Changshan's final "judgment" with all her heart.

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"...Taili is preparing to outsource 4 to 6 TV series in the second half of the year, which will mainly be broadcast in the prime and sub-prime time slots in the evening. The purchasing department must do a good job of selection and try to find high-quality dramas for Tairi..."

Fang Weimin couldn't hear the rest clearly.

He saw Wang Xia was so excited that she almost knocked off her glasses, and then she suppressed her composure and expressed her determination to Chen Changshan.

Without a mirror, Fang Weimin knew how ugly his face looked now, just like Deputy Director Mo not far away from him.

Is the station really going to give up the production center that has created countless glories for the station?

Fang Wei wanted to take action against the people and loudly questioned the director of the station, Chen Changshan, but he did not because he knew it would be useless.

Before this, Mo Dashan had already photographed the table more than once, but the situation was like this, the production center's skills were not as good as others, and there were not enough achievements to support it. If he continued to act recklessly, he would only be humiliating himself.

In the subsequent meeting, Fang Weimin did not take any action. Even if Chen Changshan approved that the production center's new self-produced drama could be broadcast in the daytime slot as compensation, he simply said a few words and said nothing more.

His calm attitude made everyone present at the meeting look at him frequently.

Lao Fang is really heartbroken...

Mo Dashan, who knew the character of his old subordinate, felt very uncomfortable, but he could not oppose Chen Changshan's decision.

They did not give up the production center, and even took the initiative to reserve a prime time slot for self-produced dramas.

Mo Dashan knew in his heart that this was the limit that Chen Changshan, the station director, could do. After all, the station director was the top leader of the TV station and was responsible for the entire Dongshan Station. He would not favor any one department for some reason.

The capable ones go up, the mediocre ones go down.

This is the eternal truth!

Chen Changshan did not kill all the production centers, but still retained part of the hope of self-produced dramas, which was a great deal of respect to him, the deputy director, and Fang Weimin.

Mo Dashan is not a person who doesn't know what's good or bad, and who takes advantage of every inch of his life.

So even though he understood that after the meeting, the TV Production Center would be in an unprecedented dilemma, he still did not speak out against Chen Changshan's decision at the meeting...


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