Rebirth of the Entertainment Giant 149 Variety Show

"Is Director Liu of Huaxia Central here?" Zhang Xiaohua asked a female staff as she walked past.

"Yes, he's already here. At present, Manager Xu is entertaining him." The female staff member said with a smile.

"Call them to the conference room." Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Zhang Xiaohua went straight into the conference room. Soon, the executives of various departments came in one after another, among them was Director Liu. The whole conference room was packed.

Xu Fengnian, facing a middle-aged man wearing a tunic suit, introduced him to Zhang Xiaohua: "This is Director Liu of Huaxia Central." Then he introduced him to Director Liu: "This is the boss of our company, Zhang Xiaohua."

Director Liu smiled and stood up, he took the initiative to extend a friendly hand to Zhang Xiaohua, and said: "It's a pleasure to meet you, the rising star of the entertainment circle. So young, but already so promising."

Zhang Xiaohua also stood up and symbolically shook hands with Director Liu. He smiled and said: "Director Liu has come to visit us, it's a great honour for our company."

The two laughed and then settled down into their seats.

Xu Fengnian was also full of smiles. He took advantage of the harmonious atmosphere and took the lead in speaking: "This time Director Liu has come seeking cooperation with us. I have read over the plans. Personally, I think it's a great idea, but I'll allow Director Liu to explain the specifics."

Zhang Xiaohua nodded.

Director Liu took out several documents from his briefcase and distributed them to everyone present. He said: "This is the outlay of our plans. The station wants to produce a brand new variety show. It will be called 'Game's Week.' At present, we have invited over 20 famous stars for this program and now we wish to incorporate Miss Ling and Mr. Yang into the show as well, with them onboard, we can all watch as the rating burst through the roof and money starts raining down. "

Zhang Xiaohua took a hard look at the plan in his hand.

To put it bluntly, there plan was to bring together stars and then let them interact while participating in different games in different locations. When necessary, the female stars were to wear "appealing clothes" to attract the attention of the audience, such as wearing bikinis, etc.

From his knowledge of similar shows back on earth, he could roughly estimate how the show would turn out.

Back on Earth, to improve the ratings, the organizers would always specially arrange accidents in the program. For example, a female star would accidentally fall during the game or the bikini would accidently show off a bit too much skin. These types of shows aimed for publicity, they didn't mind in the slightest whether it was the good kind or not.

In fact, there were many similar TV shows here, most of their stars were inconspicuous third degree stars. Real big-name stars would never show up on this kind of low-level variety show, which would seriously affect their image. It could cause a rapid decline in popularity.

Take Ling Ming for example, if she was allowed to participate in this program and made to wear a bikini, it might draw in a lot of male fans but likely a lot of the general public would take a dislike to her. If parents saw her on a tv show full of drama, arguing, insults and people showing off their skin, they would conceive a negative image of her in their minds. Now, with this, she would lose out on her general appeal to all audiences and adults and parents might even restrict their children from listening to her music.

He understood why these shows exited, drama always attracts attention, but in Zhang Xiaohua's eyes, such a program was quite unbearable.

He didn't want to let Ling Ming and Yang Kun participate in such a program. In his heart, all the stars of HuaXiang Entertainment were destined to become big-name stars.

Plus he had to protect the company's image.

However, this time Director Liu came with a lot sincerity and they had already turned down Huaxia Central when they rejected their offer to buy the live broadcast rights to Ling Ming's concert.

At this time, apart from Zhang Xiaohua, everyone present had expressed their satisfaction with the program...

The liked the concept of gathering stars together and making a game show. With so many stars, once the show aired the ratings would definitely be high.

Director Liu was completely focused on Zhang Xiaohua, afterall Zhang Xiaohua was the decision-maker of the company.

Seeing Zhang Xiaohua's lackluster look, he assumed that he was dissatisfied with the price: "When we released news of the programm many entertainment companies immediately submitted applications to us, after accepting some, we specifically maintained two places just for Ling Ming and Yang Kun."

Speaking up to here, Director Liu revealed a look of self-confidence and continued: " In addition to the appearance fees for having Ling Ming and Yang Kun on the show, we are willing to offer 7.5% of the advertising revenue we earn to show our sincerity to cooperate with your company."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Datong and Emma almost begun to celebrate.

It was said that Huaxia Central's advertising fees were very high, to earn an ad spot on their shows, many brands were willing to pay millions. Now, they offered 7.5% of the advertising revenue to HuaXiang Entertainment, this was like a golden pie falling out of the sky.

"I'm sorry Director Liu, but Ling Ming and Yang Kun's schedules are already full, for the next few months. They will be unavailable."

When Zhang Xiaohua said this, everyone was stunned.

What the hell was he on about?

Ling Ming and Yang Kun were completly free, they were just idling about.

Huaxia Central was a well-known TV station with certain strength and relationships.

They had already rejected them last time. If they refused them again, they were bound to feel some way about it and retaliate against HuaXiang Entertainment. If they did so, the future of HuaXiang Entertainment would be bleak!

At this time facing everyone's shocked gazes, Zhang Xiaohua was calm. Xu Fengnian wanted to persuade him, but in the face of outsiders, as the subordinate he couldn't openly confront the boss, or they would inevitably look like fools who didn't understand what they were doing, so he held himself back.

Seeing the steadfastness on Zhang Xiaohua's face, Director Liu face fell, his smile turning into a deep frown. He stared at Zhang Xiaohua with his sharp eyes. His pair of thick eyebrows became wrinkled, forming black lines across his forehead endlessly. His breath also deepened as his frustration built up.

Since the establishment of Huaxia Central, it had cooperated with major entertainment companies no less than a thousand times. Many of whom who came begging to them for a chance to corporate. Rarely did they have to reach out and never had they been rejected when they did so.

With their power in the industry, they could crush stars and companies like it was nothing. They had tight connection to those in power, making their place in the industry as the number one station in the country indisputable. Their influence reached all aspects of the entertainment industry to a certain degree, even all the other stations followed in their footsteps. It had become custom to pay tribute to them in the industry, you help them out and they pave the way for you in return.

Angered, Director Liu stood up and said with dissatisfaction: "Since Boss Zhang is so young and prosperous, it seems you think we aren't qualified to cooperate with your company. Since this is the case, I'll take my leave."

As Director Liu was about to leave, Zhang Xiaohua suddenly said: "Director Liu has misunderstood, I said that Ling Ming and Yang Kun have no time currently, not that we won't cooperate with you."

Hearing this, Director Liu turned back to face him while showing a questioning look. The purpose of his trip was to ask for Ling Ming and Yang Kun to participate in the new show. Since he refused, how else could they cooperate?

Chapter end