Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 249 The Family Property Left by Li's TV

Rather than this, Media Asia TV might as well maintain its own uniqueness, as long as it can guarantee its influence, it is enough for Tang Huan to accept a small loss of money in terms of economic loss.

And the TV series got rid of the title of TV station, and it is basically a pure entertainment product that has nothing to do with politics. With the help of personal connections, it will be much more convenient in terms of output.

Only Zhou Mi knew about Tang Huan's layout, and others could only taste it on their own.

Zhou Liang Shuyi took Hu Yinmeng's hand, and said with a smile, "I have cooperated with Ms. Hu before, and the next work cooperation will naturally be very tacit."

"Zhou Mi will also serve as the director of Media Asia TV. He is responsible for coordinating the relationship between various companies. Although Media Asia TV has been streamlined, it will receive more support than before." Tang Huan emphasized his shadow prime minister status.

"Mr. Zhou, I need to take care of you more in the future." Zhou Liang Shuyi knew Zhou Mi who was always sullen, and knew his energy well, so she hurriedly asked for various work.

The process of reaching a consensus was smooth, and in the end, Zhou Liang Shuyi got up to leave with confidence, and Hu Yinmeng sent her out.

Seeing Tang Huan stretching his waist, Zhou Mi smiled and said, "You'd better go back and rest quickly, there is nothing urgent to deal with anyway."

Tang Huan nodded, "Okay, let's talk about it tomorrow."

He was indeed a little tired. He squinted for a few minutes as soon as he got in the car, but when he arrived at the villa, he suddenly became energetic.

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"Brother Huan." As soon as Tang Huan walked into the living room, Guan Zhilin ran over and handed over the slippers first.

"Girl, you're playing crazy now. You have been delaying with all kinds of excuses to let you go to school in the United States." Tang Huan smiled and pinched Guan Zhilin's tender face.

"Let's go again next year." The girl hugged Tang Huan's arm with a smile, "If you want to get angry, just punish me."

"You are shameless now, and punishment is no longer effective." Tang Huan took off his clothes while scolding, planning to take a hot bath to relieve his fatigue.

Although Guan Zhilin is pampered at home, she is very good at taking care of housework in the villa. Dinner and hot water are all prepared in advance.

"Brother Huan, you are so amazing. You bought the TV station within a few months after they entered Li's TV station. Even Hollywood companies cannot escape your clutches." When talking about this, Guan Zhilin said Excited with pride, full of admiration.

"How can it be called the Devil's Claw, ignorant and incompetent."

"That's Lushan's Claw."

"It's really unreasonable." Tang Huan couldn't help laughing.

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After Guan Zhilin served Tang Huansheng a bowl of soup, she triumphantly claimed the credit, "The time is just right, neither hot nor cold."

Tang Huan picked up the spoon and tasted a few mouthfuls, then nodded and commented, "Although your cooking skills are not flattering, your vision for choosing takeout is very worthy of recognition."

Guan Zhilin blushed pretty, and argued: "Doesn't it take a process to learn cooking? I used to be at home with my ten fingers not touching the spring water, and now I have improved a lot."

"That's right." Tang Huan nodded with a smile, "You have spent a lot of time in the TV station, and you should be familiar with the situation there. How do you react to the change of boss in the TV station? ?”

"Of course I was taken aback. That's 1 million Hong Kong dollars. By the way, Brother Huan, 2% of the TV station's shares are worth that much money. Doesn't that mean that the entire TV station has [-] million yuan?" Guan Zhilin asked curiously One sentence.

"Not bad, arithmetic is good, much better than Chinese." Tang Huan teased the girl who was like a curious baby.

Although Chinese businessmen like Zheng Yutong are willing to take over the shares of Media Asia TV to enhance their relationship with each other, Tang Huan still intends to control more than [-]% of the shares.

Originally, ATV's loss was a long-term problem. It is said that in the era of Lin Baixin, it lost about 100 million Hong Kong dollars a day, and in 2008, it reached 200 million Hong Kong dollars a day.

There must be a theory in it, but Tang Huan has no way of knowing, so he first let go and radically reorganized the traditional operation structure of Media Asia TV, and did not dare to say how much profit this TV station has made. After reaching the prestige and hearing the sound of the smashed gold coins coming back, it's a good deal.

As for the comprehensive brushing of gold coins, prestige and achievements, it is up to DreamWorks to take care of it in public.

Regarding Tang Huan's teasing, Guan Zhilin just rolled her eyes in embarrassment, and then said longingly: "Brother Huan, since you have become the owner of a TV station, and DreamWorks is under the care of Sister Hu, don't you think I want to be in that TV station?" The heroine of a TV series, just be the heroine of that TV series?"

"It should be like this." Tang Huan suppressed a smile, and nodded in cooperation, so as not to disturb the girl's dream.

"Liar, the heroine of the movie "Applause" is not just a change, now Weng Jingjing is very popular." Guan Zhilin, who came to her senses, snorted angrily, "And signed to DreamWorks, and occasionally meet one side."

With the good response of "Applause" at the movie box office, Cai Jiguang's social status has also risen accordingly. Even the newly established New Art City tried to poach roles, but he politely refused and stayed in DreamWorks honestly. .

Tang Huan is very satisfied with Cai Jiguang's professional vision. He is planning to build a bridge between Hollywood and Xiangjiang through a joint venture company established by Lianmei, but he needs to be equipped with some talents who are knowledgeable about current affairs and have the ability to study abroad. Cai Jiguang, who has experience in the United States, happens to be a good candidate.

As for the 16-year-old Weng Jingjing, since she has already participated in a DreamWorks movie, it is logical to take her under her command.

However, in Tang Huan's view, although Guan Zhilin is two years older, she may not surpass Weng Jingjing in terms of IQ. If she has such a grudge, the other party should not be unaware.Really interesting when you think about it.

"Going off topic." Tang Huan coughed lightly, "Continue to talk about the artist's reaction to the change of boss."

Guan Zhilin supported her chin with one hand and stirred the spoon with the other. After thinking for a while, she answered the question in a rare and serious manner, "I feel a little bit uneasy, especially the change that all artists are under the management of DreamWorks, which makes some people a little nervous. Not used to it, but with the spread of your billionaire name, they will gradually feel at ease, where is it not a part-time job, I heard that TVB has recently tightened the management of artists."

Stricter?This was probably TVB's precautionary measure against DreamWorks' agreement to hire its artists, Tang Huan thought to himself.

Seeing that no useful information could be squeezed out of Guan Zhilin's little head, Tang Huan waved his hands, "Eat with peace of mind, lest you get lazy and don't clean up the dishes."

Guan Zhilin stuck out her tongue, "You are so busy with work, don't always remember their shortcomings."

"Then behave well." Tang Huanke never stopped training the troubled girl in front of him.

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After eating, Tang Huan naturally became the shopkeeper, picked up the documents directly, and began to understand how many artist resources Li's TV actually left for him.

Regarding the management of artists, everything remains the same. Lai TV and TVB are similar, divided into manager contracts and department contracts.

Artists with manager contracts have a fixed salary every month. The TV station who acts as a manager will arrange for them to film dramas, host programs and other types of work. When they are arranged to work outside, they will also be commissioned by the company.

Artists with part-length contracts do not have a fixed salary, but are calculated based on the number of episodes of the TV series.

Obviously, the former is a contract of sale, but those artists who have not yet achieved fame have no choice but to accept this exploited model, hoping that one day they will become popular and become prosperous, and then convert the contract to the latter form. Or even find another job altogether.

Although the management methods for artists are similar, compared with TVB's mature star-making mechanism, Li's TV's artist resources are obviously inferior. Before Jiayi TV closed down, it ranked ahead of it in ratings, which shows that its How sad.

After Jiayi TV closed down, some of the various talents it poached from TVB with high salaries returned to the embrace of the old club, and some transferred to Li's TV camp.Coupled with the original talents, Li TV now has the basis for a preliminary challenge to TVB.

At present, among male artists, there are quite a few who are widely popular.

For example, Wu Weiguo, who has the title of "Wu Xiaosheng", joined TVB after graduating from the TVB artist training class in 1973, and starred in many series. Popular with the audience, they have the reputation of "Golden Boy and Jade Girl", and they are the first on-screen couple portrayed by TVB.

Wu Weiguo's screen partner Lu Youhui was so popular at the time. From her short job jump to Li TV in 1976, she participated in the first drama "Love Story". Just after it was broadcast, the two TV stations filed a lawsuit for her contract. , we can infer one or two.

In 1974, Lu Youhui played Xu Guanying's sister in Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie's movie "The Love Song of Two Stars". The scene where she and Xu Guanjie were in love, coupled with the song "Double Star Love Song", is quite classic.

It's a pity that Lu Youhui ruined the stardom by herself, and Wu Weiguo was poached by Jiayi TV with a high salary, which completely broke up the pair.

After Wu Weiguo joined Lai TV, he successively played important roles in "The Change of the Silkworm", "Jaws", "Heroes of the Great Neighborhood", and "The Grace of the Earth".

In the original time and space, Wu Weiguo would also play Qingqing in "Four Famous Catchers".

This is a foreign monk, and Li TV has also cultivated its own stars such as the "treasure of the town" Liu Zhirong.

In terms of female artists, there are Wen Xueer, Yu Anan and other popular Huadans.

As for the potential stocks, they should belong to Leslie Cheung and Wan Ziliang.

Generally speaking, TVB and Shaw Brothers are strong enough in the monopoly of artist resources, but Li TV does not have enough background, and they are all outsiders like Wu Weiguo.

However, these are not problems. DreamWorks, which has jumped out of the competition circle of TV stations, is still able to handle artists with ease. Whoever made TVB take precautions at the beginning did not expect that Tang Huan would really become the boss of the rival TV station one day, and signed the contract. What about the agreement.

More importantly, Liu Songren, who finished filming "Jinghua Chun_Dream" on TVB, also came to Li's TV and filmed the TV series "The Wind, Dust and Tears" and "The Ancient Capital of the Earth's Grace".

In the original time and space, Liu Songren and Mi Xue are the rare artists who can walk easily between TVB and ATV without offending. It might not be possible to shoot in advance.

As for the resources behind the scenes, Tang Huan was able to keep a close eye on them without looking at the documents.

Lu Guozhan's lyrics, Li Xiaotian's composition, this is a combination that can be compared with Huang Zhan and Gu Jiahui.

In terms of producer and director, there are at least heavyweights such as Xiao Sheng and Xu Xiaoming available.

In the original time and space, after Xiao Sheng supervised the production of the last set of works "Martial Arts Emperor Flower" in 1981, he switched to TVB. The glory of the costume martial arts TV series began with "The Legend of Condor Heroes".

TVB really thought they didn't know that they were contacting Jin Yong, and planned to take advantage of the popularity of the video game "Dragon Babu: Liumai Shenjian" to film the TV series "Dragon Babu"?

If you don't pay attention to the collection of market intelligence, how can you gain a foothold in Silicon Valley so far?
Without Xiao Sheng, does TVB plan to divide Wang Tianlin into several parts to film these TV series?Wang Jing's father can't stand such trouble.

Xu Xiaoming is an all-rounder. Since he chose to stay and continue to play for Media Asia TV, why not be reused?What's more, the TV series "Heroes Huo Yuanjia" with special significance will come out next year.

All in all, although the family fortune left behind by Li's TV cannot be said to be sufficiently prosperous, there is still a lot of room for development.

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USA, Silicon Valley, Cupertino, EA headquarters.

As the CEO of the world's largest video game entertainment company, Hawkins not only enjoys all kinds of scenery on the surface, but also undertakes heavy official duties in reality.

Although the overall economic situation in the United States is not good, this Christmas is still the harvest season for EA.

So, Hawkins is even busier.

Tang Huan’s memories of the N-in-1 Little Overlord game in his previous life have long been classified and sorted out, forming EA’s development roadmap, which was developed by the project teams in the United States and Japan, and the various projects produced under the incentive mechanism This kind of whimsy has also been included in the company's creative think tank.

Now, almost every month, EA has a video game corresponding to a different genre being developed and packaged for sale.

Of course, the whole industry is crazy, with every player trying to launch their own hardware and software products for fear of losing a piece of the pie.

Amid the chaos, collisions and conflicts over various copyrights are inevitable.

It's the job of EA and Zheru's legal department to make sure that no one can steal their crown jewels.

Hawkins took advantage of the break from dealing with various Christmas marketing plans to sit down with lawyer Owen Rabaport to discuss the legal issues related to the video game adaptation of the movie "007". The other person has rich experience in the microcomputer and video game industries. , in addition, although EA and United Artists each have their own strengths, they belong to the same entertainment group, so coordination is relatively simple.

In the original time and space, Irving Rabaport was loyal to Apple, but after Jobs was driven away, because Skelley did not realize the importance of the MAC graphical user interface, he completely ignored Irving Rabaport's suggestions. The license was easily given to Microsoft, which resulted in the trouble of Windows.

But now, Owen Rappaport's target of allegiance has changed, and it has been reused even more.

At this time, a subordinate reported that a lawyer who claimed to represent Universal Pictures came to visit.

"Bring him here." Hawkins put down the phone and muttered in surprise, "I don't know why, the interaction mechanism between us and United Artists hasn't been fully established yet, why are Universal Pictures' lawyers here to join in the fun?"

"A lawyer from Universal Pictures?" With professional sensitivity, Owen Rappaport sat up straight, "I'm afraid the person who came here was not kind."

Hawkins smiled lightly. Although he was cautious by nature, the CEO of a company with annual sales of more than one billion US dollars brought inflated self-confidence, and he had capital to lift weights like light.

United Artists was acquired by EA leveraged buyout, Hollywood is nothing more than that, how much stronger can Universal be?
"It's better to be careful," Owen Rabaport began to clear away the information on the table to avoid leaking business secrets.

Soon, the Universal Pictures lawyer and his assistant came to the office, faced the staring Hawkins, handed over the documents calmly, and said word by word: "I am here on behalf of Universal Pictures to negotiate with you. EA is negotiating that the video game "Donkey Kong" that you are selling on the market has infringed the copyright of our movie, please stop the infringement immediately and make sincere compensation."

"It's really a bad person." Hawkins snorted coldly, picked up the document and looked at it twice, and then couldn't hold back his anger and swear, "shit!"

"Let me take a look." Seeing how dark Hawkins' face was, Owen Rabaport calmly took the document.

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Compared with Hawkins' young and proud, mature and prudent Chambers, he is more powerful. When Tang Huan is not in Silicon Valley, he has to take charge of the important affairs of Zheru America and EA, so he is naturally busier.

With the more powerful second-generation Fangyuan computer as a platform, the database EBase and its related database management systems are at home like a duck in water.

With the full cooperation of Zheru, Seagate, who worked overtime on research and development, has already produced the hard disk expansion card on the second-generation Fangyuan computer platform.
Compared with floppy disks that are counted in KB, the extra 5MB of external storage capacity is of self-evident significance for database applications.

Alan Shugart, who watched the demonstration with Chambers, saw that he passed the second round of tests, and he couldn't help showing a relaxed smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)