Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

After the Academy Awards, Yang Ye called a meeting with a number of the group's senior executives, including Zhong Jinghui, Chan Shuk-fen, Liu Xiaoqing, Chen Ziqiang, and Cheng Donghan.

After entering the 1990s, television stations became a hot industry and many people were investing in television stations.

In addition to TVB and ATV, Hong Kong also issued another cable television license, and the new Wharf Television was established in 1993.

Taiwan's local TV stations CTS, CTS and TTV represent the party, government and military respectively, and have monopolized Taiwan's television industry for decades. Now the situation has finally loosened.

Taiwan promulgated the Cable Television Act in 1993, opening up registration and declaring all previous fourth channels legal.

At one time, a total of 610 TV stations obtained temporary licenses.

It is truly a wonder that there are more than 600 TV stations on one island.

Subsequently, Taiwan divided television operating areas into 51 zones, stipulating that only five television stations were allowed in each zone.

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 of relationships in Taiwan, and Star TV officially landed in Taiwan and became a legal television station.

TVB also landed in Taiwan and established a new television station, TVBS.

Some Taiwanese companies began to invest in television stations, and Eastern TV, ERA TV, and Sanlih TV would soon appear.

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 invested in Uni-President Group, holding a 15% stake.

Since then, Yang Ye entered the Chinese food industry by investing, and he was going to start selling kimchi to South Korea.

TVB also has a satellite channel called Galaxy TV.

TVBS is aimed at Taiwan, and Galaxy TV is aimed at Southeast Asia. They broadcast television programs from wireless stations, which is equivalent to direct competition with Star TV.

In the following years, many Chinese went to Hong Kong to run TV stations, such as Phoenix TV, Sunshine TV, etc.

Some large media groups, such as Media Asia Entertainment, were also established one after another.

In mainland China, satellite TV stations were established one after another from CCTV to major provincial stations, and the legendary TV personality Ouyang Changlin became the director of Mango Channel.

In the next few years, the television industry will see fierce competition.

The meeting held by Yang Ye was mainly aimed at this situation.

Yang Ye held a meeting to discuss two main things.

The first is the separation of production and broadcasting; the second is to open a music satellite channel and a movie channel.

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At the meeting, Li Zhixian briefly introduced the changes in the television industry in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Then, Yang Ye said straight to the point: "There is no doubt that we will face huge competition in the television field in the next few years.

Moreover, due to the popularity of televisions and the abundance of TV programs, we in the film industry will also face huge challenges from television.

Therefore, it is imperative that we reform the TV station.”

Afterwards, Yang Ye announced his plan to separate production and broadcasting.

This is not a new idea. The three old TV stations in Taiwan started to separate production and broadcasting as early as the 1980s.

Hong Kong has never done this because there is only a small area and there is no need for it.

And if we don’t do it, it will be easy to control the artists.

At TVB, the artists and the TV station are integrated.

ATV is more open. Artists sign with another agency and hire people from the agency when they want to shoot a drama. The TV station itself cannot control the artists.

But the difference with TVB is not that big, the artists are just controlled by a different company.

Later, after Star TV was established, except for its own variety shows, TV dramas were directly broadcast from ATV, with the Cantonese re-dubbed into Mandarin, and that was it.

The current reform of separating production and broadcasting is to go a step further by removing ATV's TV drama production business and establishing a separate TV production company.

Since then, TV stations, artist management companies and TV production companies have been divided into three parts.

Although they belong to the same group company, they are independent of each other.

The nature of television production companies is similar to that of film companies, and they all hire people from artist management companies.

Yang Ye explained the purpose of doing so:
"Affected by the impact of special effects blockbusters, film investors have become cautious, and film policies in Southeast Asian countries have tightened. The golden decade of Hong Kong films has passed, and production will be greatly reduced in the next few years.

At the same time, the entire Asia will see the rise of the television industry, so we must make strategic adjustments.

We will 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 dramas.

The new TV production company does not only serve ATV and Star TV. It is independent and the dramas it produces will be sold to all TV stations.

If Star and ATV want the broadcasting rights, they will need to bid like other TV stations! "

It is obvious that the separation of production and broadcasting that Yang Ye wants to achieve is somewhat different from the three old TV stations in Taiwan.

Although the old three channels separated production and broadcasting in the 1980s, their production companies and TV stations were one-to-one.

For example, China Television, its programs are all produced by a company called Hanxin Film and Television Production Company.

This is actually like taking off your pants to fart, which is essentially the same.

But the TV production company set up by Yang Ye is completely independent of the TV station and 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.

ATV's director, Chen Shufen, asked, "What if TVB wants to buy it?"

Yang Ye said: "As long as it is willing to pay, we will treat them equally."

Under Yang Ye's plan, ATV and Star TV will become two platforms, with ATV mainly serving the Cantonese-speaking area and Star TV targeting the entire Asia-Pacific region.

Baiyang Film Company and TV Company are both service providers for TV stations, providing program content for them.

And they are just the two largest ones. ATV and Star also accept programs produced by other film and television companies.

In short, ATV and Star Sky are equivalent to video websites after the millennium, or in other words, they are the predecessors of video websites.

Ten years later, when the era of video websites arrives, the content accumulated over the years will be transferred there.

Yang Ye had previously made large purchases of film copyrights from companies such as Cinema City and Shaw Brothers, saying that it was for the VCD business, but it was only used for a transition period.

Eventually, all of this will become content for video sites.

Once this video website is launched, it will instantly become a giant that no one can shake because of its massive copyrights.

Of course, other people didn't know about Yang Ye's plans, so he didn't need to say much. The entire group company was ruled by Yang Ye. Although Yang Ye rarely intervened in the daily affairs of the major companies, once a decision was made, everyone just had to execute it, because he was always right.

Yang Ye found Xu Xiaoming as the helmsman of the new Baiyang Television Production Company.

In 1973, when Yang Ye came to Hong Kong, Xu Xiaoming also officially joined LiShi.

Later, many great TV series came from his hands, the most famous of which is the "Good Earth" series, followed by "Huo Yuanjia", "Chen Zhen", etc. He is a veteran TV person.

Xu Xiaoming was still Li Saifeng's master in the original time and space. Now A-Man followed Yang Ye. She was both Yang Ye's apprentice and Yang Ye's woman, so he had nothing to do with her.

Xu Xiaoming also headed ATV in the original time and space, and during his tenure he produced popular dramas such as "My Date with a Vampire", whose ratings once exceeded those of TVB.

All in all, Xu Xiaoming is a very good TV producer and it is very suitable for him to run the TV company.

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After talking about the separation of production and broadcasting, they started discussing the movie channel and music channel.

What Yang Ye meant was that both TV channels would be affiliated with Star TV and become sub-channels.

But it is just a name. The music channel is managed by Bluebird Music Group, and 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 Space Star TV.

The station targets young people who like pop music 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, and countless Chinese pop singers became well-known through this TV station.

The "Global Chinese Music Chart" it founded was once the biggest annual event in the Chinese music scene.

In addition, it also recommends music from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. It has columns such as "International Cool", "Taiwan Pass", "Japanese and Korean Waves", and "Shenzhou Hot", which are very popular.

Now Yang Ye has attracted a large number of musical talents by hosting "The Voice of China" in advance, but is facing the problem of being unable to digest them.

It became imperative to establish a music television station.

As for how to do it specifically, Yang Ye only needs to propose the idea, and the rest will be left to Bluebird Music Group.

Just transfer some TV talents from ATV and Star TV stations and let them do it.

As for the movie channel, Yang Ye holds a huge amount of movie copyrights. It would be a waste if he didn't set up a TV station to broadcast them every day.

Of course, we will also do some movie-related variety shows, including movie trailers, celebrity interviews, movie reviews, movie secrets, movie premieres and the like.

Film and variety shows such as "Actors Please Take Your Place" and "Infinite Beyond Class" can also be arranged.

Apart from CCAV, only Yang Ye can do this business, because he owns a huge number of copyrights, and having many copyrights means he is very powerful!
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After the separation of production and broadcasting and the opening of a new TV channel were finalized, Yang Ye went to visit the leaders in Shenzhen again.

Now Guangming Film and Television City has built five major scenic spots: Ming and Qing Palaces, Qin Palace, Guangzhou Street and Hong Kong Street, and Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

Due to Shenzhen's convenient transportation and complete infrastructure, many crews are happy to come here to shoot film and television dramas.

Yang Ye visited the mayor in the hope that the municipal government could come forward and jointly hold a promotion meeting with Guangming Film and Television City.

We invited some TV stations from the mainland, including CTS, CTS and TTV from Taiwan, TVB from Hong Kong and Singapura from Singapore.

Including some film and television production companies, private companies such as Rong Xinda from the mainland were also invited.

This kind of promotion activity would be of great benefit to the development of Shenzhen, and the mayor readily agreed.

Yang Ye did this to cope with the upcoming cold winter of Hong Kong films and complete the transfer of film and television talents from Hong Kong to Shenzhen.

Around the second half of 1994, the Hong Kong film industry suddenly became out of work.

The film industry professionals who were originally busy as hell, all stayed at home picking their feet overnight.

At that time, Zhen Zidan collaborated with ATV to shoot the TV series "The Hung Hei-gun" and "Fist of Fury", and as a result, all the martial arts actors in Hong Kong came to help.

Those two TV series are also among the best martial arts dramas with the best fighting scenes, because all the actors are fucking masters.

Any of the extras was once a popular martial artist.

At this time, if Guangming Film and Television City was operating in full swing, it would be easy to transfer these people there.

To this end, Yang Ye planned a series of large-scale TV series.

Previously, Yang Ye told Xiao Xie Miao to play the role of young Zhan Zhao in "Young Justice Bao", which was one of them.

"Young Bao" is divided into three parts, with Bao Zheng played by Zhou Jie, Lu Yi and Deng Cao respectively. There is also "Justice Bao" played by Wang Xuebing just to make up the number.

Overall, the film starring Jay Chou has the best reputation and the highest rating.

When netizens in later generations discussed this, most of them talked about the first part.

Zhou Jie's Bao Zheng is usually a bit mean, but when something happens, he immediately becomes thoughtful and meticulous, which is in line with the character characteristics of a detective novel.

Moreover, he displayed Justice Bao's righteousness and his fearlessness of the powerful to the fullest, which made the audience remember him so much as Shao Bao. The later versions of Bao Lu and Bao Deng did not have that flavor.

If you watch Zhou Jie’s interviews, especially his conversation with Yi Liqing, you will find that this person has very strong logical thinking and expressive ability, just like the Bao Zheng he played, so fucking awesome.

One theory as to why Zhou Jie didn't act in the second part is that he had a bad temper and offended Chen Daoming, so they replaced him.

One theory is that Jay Chou felt that the second script was not good and it would be difficult to make a breakthrough if he continued to act in it, so he refused to act.

When Yang Ye was filming "Kung Fu" in Shanghai, Zhou Jie was still studying at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He played a minor role in the "Kung Fu" crew and played a passerby.

He also appeared in Maggie Cheung's classic film "Ruan Lingyu".

Yang Ye had asked Liu Xiaoqing to sign a group of people before, including Zhou Jie, Xue Yi, Xu Zhen, Ning Jing, etc. Now these people are about to graduate and it is time for them to make their debut.

Yang Ye had thought about "Young Justice Bao" a long time ago, and he even hoped to use the original cast.

So when he held a charity performance in Shanghai in 91, he invited Chen Daoming, hoping to work with him.

Now that filming has begun, the three main characters, Zhou Jie, Li Binbin and Ren Quan, are all available. Shi Xiaolong is only six years old, a little young, so it would be a good idea 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 Justice Bao: "They are all newcomers, and there are no Hong Kong or Taiwan stars. Is this okay?"

Yang Ye explained: "In the future, the TV series we shoot, the leading roles must be played by actors from the mainland.

If a film crew is composed entirely of Hong Kong people from top to bottom, then one can only indulge their arrogance.

Over time, this will cause mainland audiences to feel resentful and xenophobic, which is very troublesome.

We have two major platforms, Star TV and Asia Television. As long as the TV series is well-made and beautifully filmed, it doesn't really matter whether Hong Kong stars are used or not.

Don’t forget that we have the ability to create stars. We have the final say on who to promote and who not to promote.

Not only in this film, Young Justice Bao, but also in the following films, Tai Chi Master and Love Across Time and Space, the male protagonists all use mainland actors. "(End of this chapter)