After the Academy Awards, Yang Ye convened a meeting with senior executives of the group including Zhong Jinghui, Chen Shufen, Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Ziqiang, and Zheng Donghan.
After entering the 1990s, television stations became a popular industry, and many people were investing in television stations.
In addition to TVB and ATV, Hong Kong has also issued a cable TV license. The new Wharf TV Station was established in 1993.
Taiwan’s China Television, China Television, and Taiwan Television respectively represent the three forces of the party, government, and military. They have monopolized Taiwan’s television field for decades, and now they are finally loosened.
Taiwan promulgated the "Cable Television Law" in 1993, opening up registration, and all the previous fourth channels were declared legal.
At one time, a total of 610 TV stations had obtained temporary licenses.
There are more than 600 TV stations on one island, which is really a curiosity in the world.
Subsequently, Taiwan divided the television operating areas into Area 51, stipulating that only five TV stations were allowed to exist in each area.
In order to survive, many TV stations began to sell and merge.
At the same time, international television stations also began to enter Taiwan.
Warner's ESPN was the first to land in Taiwan, followed by CNN and other channels.
Under Yang Ye's instruction, Hu Yinmeng activated her network in Taiwan, and Star TV officially launched in Taiwan and became a legal TV station.
Wireless also landed in Taiwan and established a new TV station, TVBS.
Some companies in Taiwan have begun to invest in TV stations, and Dongsen TV, Era TV, and Sanli TV will appear soon.
Yang Ye accepted the investment from Uni-President Group and Uni-President became the second largest shareholder of Star TV, holding 20% of the shares.
In exchange, Yang Ye also bought shares in Uni-President Group, holding 15% of the shares.
Since then, Yang Ye has entered China's food industry by investing in shares, and he will start selling kimchi to South Korea.
Wireless has also launched a satellite channel called Galaxy Satellite TV.
TVBS targets Taiwan, and Star TV targets Southeast Asia. They broadcast TV programs from wireless stations, which is tantamount to direct competition with Star TV.
In the following years, many Chinese people came to Hong Kong to run TV stations, such as Phoenix TV, Sunshine TV, etc.
Some large media groups, such as Meiya Entertainment, have also been established one after another.
In mainland China, satellite TV stations from CCTV to major provincial stations have also been established. Ouyang Changlin, a legendary TV man of a generation, became the director of Mango Channel.
In the next few years, the television field will usher in fierce competition.
The meeting held by Yang Ye was mainly aimed at this situation.
Yang Ye held a meeting to mainly discuss two things.
The first is to separate production and broadcasting; the second is to open a music TV channel and a movie channel.
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At the meeting, Li Zhi first briefly introduced the changes in the television field in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Afterwards, Yang Ye said straight to the point: "There is no doubt that in the next few years, we will face huge competition in the television field.
Furthermore, due to the popularity of televisions, the popularity of television programs has also increased. Rich, we will also face huge challenges in television in the film industry.
Therefore, it is imperative that we reform the TV station. ”
Subsequently, Yang Ye announced his plan for the separation of production and broadcasting.
This is not a novel approach. Taiwan’s Laosan Channel began to implement production as early as the 1980s.
Hong Kong has not done this because it is not necessary in this area.
And if we don’t do it, it will be easy to control the artists.
On the wireless side, artists and TV stations are integrated.
ATV is a little more open. Artists sign with another management company. When they want to film dramas, they hire people from the economic company. The TV station itself cannot control the artists.
But the difference with TVB is not that big. The artists are just controlled by another company.
Later, after Star TV was established, in addition to producing its own variety shows, TV dramas were broadcast directly to ATV, and the Cantonese was re-dubbed into Mandarin, and that was it.
The current reform of separation of production and broadcasting is to go one step further and remove ATV's TV drama production business and establish another TV production company.
Since then, the TV station, artist management company, and TV production company have been divided into three parts.
Although they belong to the same group company, they are independent of each other.
The nature of a television production company is similar to that of a film company, in that they hire people from artist management companies.
Yang Ye elaborated on the purpose of doing this:
“Affected by the impact of special effects blockbusters, film investors have become cautious, and the tightening of film policies in Southeast Asian countries and other factors, the golden decade of Hong Kong films has The year has passed and production will be significantly reduced within a few years
At the same time, the entire Asia will usher in the rise of the television industry, so we must make strategic adjustments.
Transfer the artist resources we have to the television field. In the future, the group will reduce the filming of movies and increase investment in TV series.
The new TV production company does not only serve ATV and Star TV stations. It is independent and the series it produces will be sold to all TV stations.
If Star Sky and ATV want broadcast rights, they will need to bid like other TV stations! ”
Obviously, the separation of production and broadcasting that Yang Ye wants to pursue is different from Taiwan’s third channel.
Although the third channel separated production and broadcasting in the 1980s, their production company and the TV station are one-on-one.
For example, China Television, its programs are all produced by a company called Hanxin Film and Television Production Company.
This is actually taking off your pants and farting, there is essentially no difference.
But the TV production company created by Yang Ye is completely independent from the TV station. It is only responsible to the headquarters.
I don’t have to sell the programs I produce to you, and if the programs they produce are too bad, the TV station can also refuse to buy them.
Chen Shufen, the director of ATV, asked: "What if TVB wants to buy it?"
Yang Ye said: "As long as it is willing to pay, everyone will be treated equally."
Under Yang Ye's plan, ATV and Starry Sky Satellite TV will become two platforms, ATV mainly serves the Cantonese region, and Star TV targets the entire Asia-Pacific region.
Baiyang Film Company and TV Company are both service providers of TV stations, providing program content for TV stations.
And they are only the two largest ones. ATV and Star TV also accept programs produced by other film and television companies.
In short, ATV and Starry Sky are equivalent to video websites after the millennium, or in other words, they are the predecessors of video websites.
Ten years later, in the era of video websites, the content accumulated over the years will be transferred.
Yang Ye previously purchased the film copyrights of New Arts City, Shaw Brothers and other companies, saying it was for the VCD business, but it was just for transition.
Eventually, these will become the content of video websites.
As soon as this video website is launched, it will instantly become a giant that no one can shake because of its massive copyright.
Of course, no one else knew about Yang Ye's plans, so there was no need for him to say more. The entire group company is Yang Ye's voice. Although Yang Ye rarely interferes in the daily affairs of major companies, once a decision is made, everyone only needs to implement it, because he is always right.
In the new Baiyang TV Production Company, Yang Ye hired Xu Xiaoming as the helmsman.
In 1973, when Yang Ye came to Hong Kong, Xu Xiaoming also officially joined Lishi.
Later, many interesting TV series were produced by him, the most famous one is the "Love from the Earth" series, followed by "Huo Yuanjia", "Chen Zhen", etc. He is a senior TV person.
Xu Xiaoming was still Li Saifeng's master in the original time and space. Now Aman is with Yang Ye. He is both Yang Ye's apprentice and Yang Ye's woman. He has nothing to do with him.
Xu Xiaoming also took charge of ATV in the original time and space. During his tenure, he produced popular dramas such as "I Have a Date with a Zombie", and the ratings once exceeded TVB.
All in all, Xu Xiaoming is a very good television producer, and it is very suitable for him to be in charge of the television company.
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After talking about the separation of production and broadcasting, we started to discuss the movie channel and music channel.
What Yang Ye means is that both TV channels are under the banner of Star TV and become sub-channels.
But it is only in name. The music channel is managed by Jade Bird Music Group, while the movie channel is managed by Baiyang Film Company. Their profits and losses have nothing to do with Star TV.
This music channel is actually Channel[V] of the original Time and Space Star TV.
This station targets pop music that young people like and is broadcast in many countries in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.
Channel[V] was an important promoter of Chinese pop music in the 1990s. Countless Chinese pop singers became well-known from this TV station.
The "Global Chinese Charts" founded by it was once the largest annual event in the Chinese music scene.
In addition, it also recommends music from Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea, and has columns such as "International Cool", "Taiwan Pass", "Japanese and Korean Waves", and "Shenzhou Fever", which are very popular.
Now Yang Ye has recruited a large number of musical talents by organizing "The Voice of China" in advance, but he is facing an indigestible problem.
It is imminent to start a music TV station.
As for how to do it specifically, Yang Ye can only propose an idea, and leave the rest to Jade Bird Music Group.
Just allocate some TV talent from ATV and Star TV and let them do it.
As for the movie channel, Yang Ye holds a huge amount of movie copyrights. It would be a waste not to have a TV station to show them every day.
Of course, we will also do some movie-related variety shows, such as movie previews, celebrity interviews, movie reviews, movie decryption, movie premieres, etc.
You can also arrange film and variety programs such as "Actors Please Take Your Place" and "Infinite Transcendence Class".
Except for CCAV, only Yang Ye can do this business, because he owns a large number of copyrights, and the more copyrights he has, the more powerful he is!
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After the separation of production and broadcasting and the opening of new TV channels were finalized, Yang Ye went to visit the leaders in Shenzhen.
Now Guangming Film and Television City has built five major scenic spots: Ming and Qing Palace Gardens, Qin Palace, Guangzhou Street·Hong Kong Street, and Qingming River Scene.
Due to Shenzhen’s convenient transportation and complete infrastructure, many film crews are happy to come here to shoot movies and TV series.
Yang Ye visited the mayor in the hope that the city government could come forward and jointly hold a promotion meeting with Guangming Film and Television City.
Invite some TV stations from the Mainland; Taiwan’s China Television, China Television, and Taiwan TV; Hong Kong’s TVB; Singapore’s SMG and other TV stations.
Including some film and television production companies, private companies such as Rong Xinda from the Mainland are also invited.
This kind of promotion activity is greatly beneficial to the development of Shenzhen, and the mayor readily agreed.
Yang Ye did this in order to cope with the upcoming Hong Kong film winter and complete the transfer of film and television talents from Hong Kong to Shenzhen.
About the second half of 1994, the Hong Kong film industry suddenly became unavailable.
The film industry employees who were originally extremely busy were all at home scratching their feet overnight.
At this time, Donnie Yen cooperated with ATV to film the TV series "Hong Xi Guan" and "Fist of Fury". As a result, all the dragon and tiger martial arts masters in Hong Kong came to help.
Those two TV series are also one of the best-looking martial arts dramas, because all the actors participating are damn masters.
A random walk-on was also a popular dragon and tiger martial artist in the past.
At this time, if Guangming Film and Television City is in full swing, it will be easy to transfer these people there.
To this end, Yang Ye planned a series of large-scale TV series.
Before, Yang Ye told Xiao Xie Miao that he should play Xiao Zhan Zhao's "Young Bao Qingtian", and this was one of them.
Shao Bao is divided into three parts. The actors who play Bao Zheng are Zhou Jie, Lu Yi and Deng Cao. There is also Wang Xuebing who plays "Top Gun Bao Qingtian" to make up the number.
Overall, the movie played by Zhou Jie has the best reputation and the highest ratings.
When later generations of netizens discussed it, most of them talked about the first one.
Zhou Jie's Bao Zheng is usually mean-spirited, but when he encounters trouble, he immediately becomes thoughtful and thoughtful, which is in line with the character characteristics of detective novels.
Moreover, he also vividly demonstrated Bao Qingtian’s righteousness and fearlessness of the powerful. It is no wonder that the audience will always remember his Shao Bao. Later Lu Bao and Deng Bao were not like that. Taste.
Zhou Jie, if you watch his interviews, especially the conversation with Yi Lijing, you will find that this person has very strong logical thinking and expressive skills. It is almost like acting with him. Just like Bao Zheng, so damn awesome.
Why didn’t Zhou Jie act in the second part? One theory is that this guy had a bad personality and offended Chen Daoming, so he was replaced.
One theory is that Zhou Jie felt that the second script was not good and it would be difficult to break through in another performance, so he refused to act.
When Yang Ye was filming "Kung Fu" in Shanghai, Zhou Jie was still studying in the theater. He had a supporting role in the "Kung Fu" crew and played a passerby.
He also appeared in Maggie Cheung's classic movie "Ruan Lingyu".
Yang Ye asked Liu Xiaoqing to sign a group of people before, including Zhou Jie, Aunt Xue, Xu Zhen, Ning Jing, etc. Now these people are about to graduate and it is time for their debut.
Yang Ye had thought about "Young Bao Qingtian" a long time ago, and he even hoped to use the original cast.
So when he held a benefit performance in Shanghai in 1991, he invited Chen Daoming, hoping to cooperate with him.
Now that filming has begun, the three main protagonists Zhou Jie, Li Binbin, and Ren Quan can be found. Shi Xiaolong is only six years old, which is a bit young, so it would be good to replace him with ten-year-old Xie Miao.
Liu Xiaoqing felt that Yang Ye's plan to transfer Hong Kong's film and television talents to Shenzhen was a big deal and extremely awesome.
But I have some doubts about the cast of "Young Bao Qingtian": "They are all newcomers, and there are no stars from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Is this okay?"
Yang Ye explained: "We will film it in the future In TV dramas, the main actors must be actors from the Mainland.
If a crew from top to bottom is from Hong Kong, then we can only indulge their arrogance.
And over time, it will also make mainland audiences resentful and xenophobic, which is very troublesome.
We have two major platforms, Star TV and Asia Television. As long as the TV series are well-produced and well-filmed, it doesn’t matter whether they use Hong Kong stars or not.
Don’t forget, we ourselves have the ability to create stars, and we have the final say on who we praise or not.
Not only this "Young Man Bao Qingtian", but also the following "Tai Chi Master" and "Love Through Time", the male protagonists will all use mainland actors. "(End of this chapter)