Age of Legends

Chapter 156 Don't mess around

Chapter 156 Don't mess around

It's the end of the semester again. In fact, it has only been half a year since Zhang Chen was reborn, but he has experienced the counterattack at the end of the first semester of the second year of high school, the rise of Wang Bowen, the birth of the record-breaking ratings of Rongcheng Emotional Vortex, the planning of Rongcheng International Digital Culture Festival, and even the incident of saving Chen Xuran, the end of Boss Xiong, and the face of Rongcheng has changed again.

Sometimes when Zhang Chen wakes up, he worries that he has returned to those years, in a daze. The world changes every day. He hasn't left home for three months, and a flyover is built across the road. A high-rise building stands on the land next to it. A celebrity on the Internet has collapsed again. The popularity of the metaverse has just passed, and AI is here again. There is a trade war, an epidemic, and the world is upside down and changing rapidly.

At that time, I felt that time passed so quickly. In the blink of an eye, several years had passed.

In the blink of an eye, it has been so many years since I graduated from college. My family members have left and come, and I have worked hard for half my life but have not achieved anything. In the end, I am alone in the vastness of time.

When the Yude Cultural Wall was first created, there was a picture of a pair of eyes looking at the wilderness of time. The inspiration for this picture actually came from his profound perception.

He once felt as if the wheel of the world rolled by, but abandoned him in the wilderness of time. It seemed that everyone was particularly able to adapt to their own lives, but only he seemed to be following in the footsteps and lingering in the same place, not knowing where to go or where to return.

In the blink of an eye, my childhood idols and the people I grew up to know well have left this world one by one. This is the most true reflection of how time flies.

But now, after going through so many things like a revolving lantern, when I put them together.

Hey, it’s only been half a year.

If this were a novel, the author would be pretty good at it.

But he likes this kind of flowing, outline-like life. Hasn't he had enough of it?

Today's high school life is so real every day, with the smell of sweat while exercising in the sun on the playground, the sudden cool breeze when you are in the shade of the trees when it is too hot, and the bright eyes that meet unexpectedly in the courtyard.

Of course, it may also be because I was working on the questions day and night that I felt time was slowing down.

There was a personnel reshuffle at Rongcheng TV Station. Director Shunhua joined the provincial station and the new director took over Rongcheng TV Station. Wang Bowen also became more confident and has stepped out of the circle of the TV station's peripheral production units. It has now become an independent studio. Moreover, this studio has become very famous in Rongcheng and may be the ceiling of the Rongcheng TV planning and production team.

Now, once Wang Bowen produces a program, it is not only popular in Rongcheng, but also TV stations from other places will buy it.

Of course, after Yu Shunhua became the deputy director of the provincial TV station, he also promised to buy programs from Wang Bowen with the best treatment.

So what if the provincial station is now a satellite TV station? The production capacity is still poor, not much better than Rongcheng TV Station. At this stage, the national satellite TV stations are all the big brothers, not to mention the second brother, and they are almost the same. In some aspects, the provincial station may be more advanced now.

It's just that in the long evolution that followed, some stations took the lead, while others did not make progress and remained stagnant. Zhang Chen's impression of provincial TV stations is like this. After more than ten or twenty years, there is nothing to show for it. The aesthetics of all aspects are still stuck in the early 20th century. Compared with the ambition of the later stations to catch up with Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is simply impossible to catch up.

Hunan TV is now a well-deserved benchmark for local TV stations. "Happy Camp" was first broadcast in 97 and it was the first variety show in China, with advertising fees of tens of millions every year. The popularity of "Return of the Pearl" directly pushed Hunan TV to the top of the country, and the share price of domestic media stocks is also far ahead.

Zhang Chen felt that it was difficult to compare. They were much better than the provincial station in terms of concepts and talent team, and their system was also much stronger. Now that Yu Shunhua has taken office at the provincial station, only Wang Bowen's production team is capable behind him. Zhang Chen has never thought about how high he can support the provincial station. It's just that the production fee of the provincial station is his cash cow.

There is no other way. I am still in high school. I can't do anything about the Internet or set up stalls to make money. Fortunately, I have a godfather. I can come up with some plans and save up some money from those bloody program plans in the future. Although it is a bit twisted, it is still something I can do.

It was a pity that "Emotional Whirlpool" was discontinued on Rongcheng TV. Where can you find such a program with low production costs, stable ratings and cash flow? Moreover, it is still fresh and profitable while the program has not yet become old.

The only difference is that the name is no longer "Emotional Vortex", but is changed to "Emotional Observation Room". The title eliminates some of the artificial guidance of controversial rhetoric and becomes much smoother, but the core is definitely unchanged.

The production could be better. In the beginning, "Emotional Whirlpool" was hastily launched to make money, and many times it was not well-made. Now the production cost can be increased a bit to meet the standards of satellite TV.

Of course, with the support of Shunhua, the cooperation model is also being negotiated with the provincial TV station. The problem with the provincial TV station is still the funding issue. They are unwilling to pay more money, but they seem willing to share the advertising fees.

If Yu Shunhua was an old employee of the provincial TV station and knew Wang Bowen's ability to make money, he would definitely be more willing to invest in buying out the copyright and broadcasting rights in the name of production.

But now Yu Shunhua is not responsible for the provincial TV economy, he is only responsible for producing content, so he has made a very important push in promoting negotiations in this regard. And I don’t know if he feels that he can take a step further at the critical moment, with the help of Wang Bowen, this lucky general, and because he had treated Wang Bowen badly before, so Director Yu Shunhua is working very hard this time.

Negotiated a good cooperation profit for Wang Bowen.

It may also be a profit-sharing model that the provincial TV station has never given before.

Specifically: the copyright is in the hands of Wang Bowen, and the provincial TV station obtains the five-year broadcasting rights in the form of advertising profit sharing. The advertising sections are divided more finely. According to the requirements of the copyright owner, there are also very detailed requirements for advertisements, specifically, transition advertisements of no more than one minute, patches of no more than fifteen seconds, and no more than four advertising clips in the entire episode.

The advertising revenue is split 50-50 between the TV station and the copyright holder.

Overall, Wang Bowen got a lot of autonomy and a good share of the profits. Of course, the entire production cost was borne by the team, but the production costs were also small.

During this period, TV stations were willing to pay for well-produced programs, but on the one hand, funds were limited, and on the other hand, these programs were relatively rare in the market. As a result, the TV stations had less effective content and more advertising content. At one point, they even invited hospitals and health programs to advertise for most of the day.

Zhang Chen had thought about registering a company like Melatonin and paying a large sum of money to the TV station to play brainwashing product ads all day long. But the money was too cheap, and since he was reborn, he should not do anything messy, as his dark history might be dug up by others in the future.

After all, I still have a plan to create a top documentary. If it is exposed in the future, it would be him who was behind the fraudulent Dali Pills advertisement, the health-preserving magnetic needles, the Xiaoguan tea, and the men's bodybuilding!
Zhang Chen estimated that by then he would have to quit the entire Internet and stop mixing around.

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This post was posted in the early morning, so just consider it as today's. I will take a day off tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)

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