My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 873 Thinking about it this way makes it clear

In fact, to discerning individuals with a strategic vision, the probability of Wei Dong's approach failing is quite high!
The television station, with nearly a thousand employees, primarily produces programming content.

Everyone on his side was a newbie, yet he dared to completely overturn and start over right from the beginning.

This is almost a joke.

Therefore, seven out of the original eleven senior executives submitted their resignations.

The same logic applies: for a highly professional manager, this new boss's approach is almost childish.

Not participating in their nonsense is also a way to protect their careers.

Fortunately, none of these involved any complicated poaching schemes; they were just people who left due to pessimism about the company's prospects after a sudden acquisition.

Because it was obvious that Wei Dong hadn't promised any high salaries to the higher-ups to retain them.

Love can never leave.

To facilitate Cantonese translation, my wife was involved in the entire high-level negotiation process.

He was still trembling with fear: "I... I think what they said makes some sense, maybe we should hold off for now?"

Wei Dong casually looked out the CEO's office window at the raging storm and asked, "How can we ease this?"

Qin Yuye tried his best to summarize: "Don't cut TV series productions first. Just focus on reforming one channel. Don't go all in."

The departing senior executives were truly offering their earnest advice. In the 1970s, Hong Kong television stations were still divided into three major players. One of them was determined to reform and implemented many groundbreaking new measures, but as a result, its expenses skyrocketed and it completely collapsed.

This was mainly because it frightened his wife, triggering her childhood memories of the TV station, which happened to be the period when Qin Zhiming's business collapsed.

Double shadow is equivalent to...

As long as they don't stop, and keep Wei Dong from having any lingering trauma: "TVB has a staff of three to five thousand people, and they're putting all their effort into developing dramas. Why do they insist on fighting when they can't win? It's absurd for a TV station to survive by producing its own dramas. I've already been kind enough not to cut all the cast and crew. Otherwise, I would have found some amateurs to film... etc..."

As he spoke, he casually jotted it down on a piece of paper next to him.

Qin Yuye still tried her best to persuade: "Then the previous layout of Chinese and English channels made sense. Why completely abandon the English channel?"

Wei Dong laughed and cursed, "I was thinking of making it all in Mandarin, but that would be suicide. English is quite important in Hong Kong too, so let's make bilingual subtitles then, right!"

He jumped up at this point and teased his wife, "Do you want to come along and show off your CEO style? Otherwise, I'll just find someone to be the translator."

Qin Yuye quickly stood up and said irritably, "I have no problem with you hiring Lina as your translator, but you're not allowed to hire men like Ahui!"

Wei Dong was both amused and exasperated: "Are you crazy? Do I have any thoughts of flirting? If your wild ideas affect my plans and work, be careful, I'll deal with you!"

Qin Yuye pouted, feeling wronged: "I felt like my existence was stolen after Lin Wangfu's incident, and now he's doing it again? You can deal with me then!"

As she said this, she glared at him reproachfully and wiggled her bottom.

This is also a talent, able to instantly transform upturned lips into irresistible allure.

Wei Dong glanced at his watch; the reforms wouldn't be delayed any longer. He'd better teach this little wench a lesson...

That's right. After a thrilling and intense battle, the wife gained the confidence to be in control of everything, and no one could take it away from her.

This will allow Wei Dong to face the colorful world with the mindset of a wise man.

Because he pulled up his pants and demanded that all sorts of short videos be filmed!

This scene is incredibly tempting.

Hundreds of beautiful women of all kinds performed various elegant, sweet, sexy, and alluring poses in front of the camera, showcasing their unique dance moves and acting skills.

The photography technicians were full of praise for the boss's request to shoot a vertical, elongated image.

This is because it naturally suits the proportions of a slender figure.

Little did they know that this was merely getting Wei Dong used to the composition of short videos.

Moreover, problems soon arose. Having rarely watched suggestive videos in his previous life, Wei Dong, along with the cameraman, director, and producer, watched in front of the monitor and quickly discovered that it would be difficult to maintain such twisting and turning dance moves for five minutes.

Without a plot or content, relying solely on such a figure and appearance to attract attention easily leads to aesthetic fatigue after just one minute.

Fortunately, Wei Dong immediately made a decision: each person would be twenty seconds apart, and a dozen or so beautiful women with completely different characteristics would be gathered every five minutes to showcase their beauty. Alternatively, handsome men could be gathered together at certain times.

Wei Dong's idea was that if he couldn't swipe down on the screen, he would simulate swiping up.

Then another problem arose: there weren't enough beautiful women to showcase.

Actually, while there are supposedly two or three hundred actors, most are just ordinary-looking extras, middle-aged men and women. There are only a few dozen truly attractive young actresses, and even those aren't necessarily all beauties. For the five-minute "healthy dance" and "leisurely rhythm" segments every hour, all the beautiful women have to appear in different outfits in rotation. They mentioned the information session was concentrated in the afternoon; wouldn't that consume nearly a hundred beautiful women in just half an hour?

Doing this every day is unrealistic, isn't it?
Anyone with a brain would immediately think that the boss was being a bit presumptuous.

Only a few pretty girls were trying their best to show off to the boss.

The boss, deep in thought, nearly elbowed the glamorous woman away: "Then shorten the time. Three minutes per hour for variety shows, fifteen minutes for news. The real purpose is to attract attention, and to advertise blatantly in this way without being offensive... The important thing is that they're ordinary people..."

This was the detail he had just thought of: "We should solicit this dance move from all the citizens of Hong Kong. Do you think the beautiful women in the city would be eager to show it off?"

Given that netizens later became enthusiastic about taking selfies and posting audio recordings, Wei Dong became very familiar with this approach.

The directors and cinematographers were immediately astonished: "Yes! Definitely! Your idea of ​​having a baby is fantastic, it will definitely create a sensation throughout Hong Kong!"

"Just look at the application process for Miss Hong Kong and Miss Asia, and you'll know how enthusiastic these beautiful women are about appearing on camera!"

"This is even more attractive than the appearances of Miss Hong Kong and Miss Asia, because many beautiful women don't plan to pursue a career in the entertainment industry, or they don't want to make things so complicated. They just want to show off their looks and figures!"

"Are there that many cameras in the neighborhood? Maybe it's like the Miss Asia pageant, where there's a selection and centralized filming process?"

The TV station that has just held three Miss ATV pageants happens to have abundant resources in this area.

Many beautiful women may have decent looks, but they are completely incapable of acting, and their emotional intelligence and IQ are appalling. In short, being able to step onto the stage of a beauty pageant is already the result of careful selection, eliminating many people with various shortcomings.

Now, all it takes is showing your face and striking poses for ten or twenty seconds, which is much simpler and greatly expands its appeal.

Even the TV station itself has information on thousands of such applicants and can proactively contact and invite them.

This instantly turned into an almost unlimited supply of beautiful women.

Wei Dong gestured again: "Colorful jeans, O'Nia cosmetics, Qingshuiwan Art Village, basketball court... Hmm, I'll find some more advertising projects to support it. In short, every beauty video should have a different brand platform, and the beauties who submit videos can also get a share of the tea money?"

The beautiful filming crew has already gone off to cheer.

Qin Yuye, with the air of a female CEO, stood to the side with a mixture of curiosity and arrogance, though she was also somewhat eager to try it out.

The main question was: "You're usually not a womanizer, and you don't even pay much attention to beautiful women. How come you're suddenly so good at talking about them? You're not interested in anyone, are you?"

If it weren't for the presence of so many people and the need for a translator in Chinese, English, and Cantonese, Wei Dong would have been able to kick her away.

The next step is to require news channels and variety channels to provide subtitle translations as much as possible.

TV programs that are mostly broadcast and spoken in Cantonese will have Chinese and English subtitles added. This kind of subtitle technology is still very rare in mainland China, but it has been running stably in Hong Kong for several years.

After all, the situation of mixed Chinese and English has been a problem here for many years, so this kind of demand is normal.

So it's normal for Wei Dong to ask for a few programs to be deliberately made in English, with corresponding Chinese subtitles: "That way we won't have to create separate English and Chinese channels to differentiate them, and we can save channels to create more content."

By this point, Wei Dong was no longer so blunt: "Our TV station, in essence, provides a platform for talented TV directors, cinematographers, and actors to create their own programs, which are then broadcast, and the profits are split equally..."

All television professionals must have been shocked and immediately asked how the profit came about. It's understandable that the advertising slots featuring beautiful women are profitable, but how do these news programs and financial news items generate profit?

Wei Dong casually suggested, "We can advertise like that too! Can't we put a sign for a certain beverage brand on the studio stage? We can give them 30 seconds of advertising time before and after the show, the entire broadcast background can be advertising space, and we can even pay them to let them wear whatever brand of clothing they want!"

As for the money: "Whether it's money from the advertising department or money your program team brings in themselves, it's fine. Anyway, the station will take half, and the rest is your income..."

By this time, astute industry insiders had already seen the glittering gold!

A full-blown uproar has begun!
What made Wei Dong dare to overturn the existing business model? He knew nothing about it, but he insisted on viewing television stations as the future of video websites.

Anyway, you all strive to become online celebrities and livestreamers, and my platform will take half of that, regardless of the circumstances.

This completely turns into a labor responsibility contracting system!
Despite the glamorous appearance of news anchors sitting in front of the camera and talking eloquently, the income of news program staff is not high.

At least in Hong Kong, where average salaries are relatively high, this is only the upper-middle level, not exceeding the level of celebrities who have become extremely wealthy.

This gives Wei Dong a sense of liberation from a planned economy to a commodity economy!
It was no less significant than the transition from working in the production brigade based on work points and eating from the same pot to the household responsibility system!
Regardless of whether it succeeds or not, the enthusiasm of all the lower-level staff at the TV station was suddenly mobilized.

This is different from the top leadership's calculations about how much they will benefit after the reforms, whether they can gain a voice in the new situation, and whether they can have more advantages than before.

The benefits are immediately visible in the lower and middle levels.

They couldn't see any long-term risks; they only cared about the present, so they did it!

Wei Dong never expected that doing this would have such an impact on the Hong Kong television industry.

Just go for it.

(End of this chapter)