Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon - Vol 2 Chapter 639
Chapter 639 Do you know the fans of “Water Margin”?
“Missing only makes myself suffer, and falling in love with you is my last resort…”
At the end of the last sentence of the opening song, Zhao Xiaomei looked forward to waiting for the main film to start, but the main film she was looking forward to did not come, but Zhou Yumin’s advertisement.
“Puppy Electric invites you to watch the Meteor Garden! Beauty instrument, I choose the puppy negative ion beauty instrument, which can make your skin more supple and shiny…”
With Zhou Yumin’s good looks, this product has not been buried in the beauty instrument advertisement.
Zhao Xiaomei patiently watched the 30-second commercial, and the main feature finally came.
Ten minutes later, when Zhao Xiaomei was immersed in the plot, the advertisement came again, and it was still an advertisement for Puppy Electric.
After another ten minutes, the advertisement for Puppy Appliances appeared again.
“Why is it an advertisement again!” Zhao Xiaomei frowned.
After another ten minutes, the advertisement for Puppy Electric is here again!
Zhao Xiaomei was seeing the critical moment, and the sudden wave of advertisements made Zhao Xiaomei feel the urge to scold her mother.
This is probably like reading a novel and seeing that it is exciting, this chapter is over, and we have to wait for tomorrow’s update, readers will definitely be able to yell at “broken chapter dog”!
Zhao Xiaomei picked up the remote control and planned to fast-forward, but when he pressed the play button, he found that the fast-forward was too far.
Because these commercials were also shot in F4, if you don’t read the plot carefully, it is difficult to tell whether it is an commercial or a feature film.
In desperation, Zhao Xiaomei decided to give up the treatment! Anyway, the advertising time is not long, and it is time to appreciate the appearance of F4!
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In the snack bar in front of a university, the TV hanging on the wall is playing “Meteor Garden”.
For this snack bar, this TV is a magic weapon for him to attract business. Nine times out of ten, when college students come to the restaurant to eat, they come to the TV.
If there is a ball game, the store will definitely be crowded with young people who like to watch football. At that time, selling some melon seed drinks can also make a lot of money.
When there are no football games, some TV dramas or movies that young people like to watch can also attract a lot of popularity.
Now this TV series “Meteor Garden” has attracted a lot of people to watch, and even some college students skip class and come here to watch “Meteor Garden”
“Don’t go away, come right back, Puppy Microwave invites you to watch Meteor Garden…”
“Why is it an advertisement again!”
“I’ve watched the ad three times before I finish my meal!”
“Every time when the most critical moment comes, the advertisement will come, which is really disappointing!”
“That’s right, can you stop advertising and finish it all at once!”
“This pirate is too black-hearted. Get a pirated VCD and insert so many advertisements!”
The students around began to complain.
Although each commercial is not long, it is really annoying to have six or seven commercials in one episode of a TV series.
And there is a link of “Puppy Electric invites you to watch the next episode’s wonderful preview”, which means that if you want to see the preview of the next episode, you have to watch an advertisement first.
I have finished watching this episode of TV series, and I have to watch the commercials to see the preview of the next episode.
The routines of adding advertisements on later video websites were all learned by Li Weidong. It is a loss that VCD discs are one-time consumption, otherwise Li Weidong would have wanted to show it in advance!
If you want to watch advanced on-demand, then double-check the commercials!
Many people buy VCD discs to watch at home. There are only two benefits. First, they can watch them whenever they want. They don’t have to watch the broadcast time to follow the dramas like TV. The second is that there are no advertisements on VCD discs, which can be watched in one breath, and the viewing experience is also better.
Even VCD discs now have advertisements, which immediately makes consumers feel deceived. Although most people buy pirated discs, they still feel that I have spent money on VCD discs. Why even watch ads?
This is like those video websites in later generations, who have already set up VIP members, and even insert advertisements in the play, not only will they be scolded by consumers, but will also be complained to the radio and television department and the Consumers Association, and they will be taken to the 315 party. Whip corpse.
However, if there are advertisements in pirated VCDs, consumers will have nowhere to sue even if they go to complain.
If I go to the relevant law enforcement department to file a complaint, saying that the pirated disc I bought has an advertisement inserted, it is estimated that the other party’s first reaction is to confiscate your pirated VCD disc.
As a result, many people who buy pirated VCDs can only endure watching each episode of nearly ten minutes of commercials.
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As the popularity of Meteor Garden gradually fermented, domestic TV stations also began to introduce this TV series.
TV stations still have to consider the ratings, especially some local TV stations, which are only aimed at local audiences, and the number of audience groups is relatively small.
If the program is similar to the big TV station again, then why should the originally limited audience go to the small TV station, they must all go to the big TV station, and even fewer viewers will go to the local small TV station.
The way of survival of small TV stations is to differentiate their programs, so many local TV stations’ non-star channels often conduct some dialect programs, livelihood programs for local audiences, or some popular local variety shows, or they introduce Some non-domestic TV dramas.
Star TV stations rarely broadcast non-domestic TV dramas. Small TV stations introduce non-domestic TV dramas, just to differentiate themselves from big TV stations.
The economic channel of a provincial TV station, “Meteor Garden” was officially broadcast.
In that era, the local economic channels basically did not have any decent financial news, and reporting the ups and downs of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets every day would be the end of the story.
In addition to broadcasting current affairs news, the rest of the time is TV dramas.
Before “Meteor Garden”, there was no idol drama concept in China, so “Meteor Garden” was classified as a youth campus drama, and the broadcast time was scheduled from 6:00 to 7:00 pm.
The main group of youth campus dramas are teenagers, so the broadcast time is often between 5:00 and 8:00 in the afternoon, that is, after school and get off work, before the prime viewing time.
During this time, adults are busy getting home from get off work to cook and eat, so the teenagers in the family have the opportunity to master the TV remote control.
From 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm, although it is not a prime viewing time, it is still a popular viewing time. After all, after 6 o’clock, people who should get off work get off work, and those who should get off school get off school. Ordinary people return home, turn on the TV, and start Watch TV shows.
For the ratings of this time period, the economic channel does not report too much hope, because their so-called “Youth Theater” in this time period is completely uncompetitive with other channels’ programs.
During the same time period, the satellite TV channel on the Star broadcasts news from the whole province, and the current affairs news is even better in terms of content, not to mention that the satellite channel is still on the star, and the ratings are naturally higher than other channels.
Among the non-star channels at the same level, the Life Channel broadcasts a people’s livelihood program, which is dedicated to interviewing some people’s livelihood issues, such as where the garbage is piled up and no one cleans up, where the private construction affects people’s lives, etc. There is even content to mediate disputes between neighbors.
These trivial things are very close to the lives of ordinary people, and they are specially aimed at local audiences, because the ratings have always been very good.
There are two programs in this time period of the urban channel, one is a food program that teaches people to cook, and the other is a health program. Six o’clock in the afternoon is the time to cook dinner. At this time, the food show that teaches people to cook is also a popular type.
The entertainment channel broadcasts popular songs, cross talk sketches and other language programs at this time, and there are often repeated content, such as Zhao Laogen’s sketches, which will appear every two or three days, which can easily make the audience tired. The ratings of such shows are similar to TV dramas, and they will not be very good.
Therefore, during the viewing period from 6:00 to 7:00, TV dramas on the Finance Channel and cross talk sketches on the Entertainment Channel have been competing for the bottom in turn.
On Monday morning, the leaders of the station gathered for their weekly meeting.
The regular meeting will also announce the viewing status of each channel in each time period.
“Pharaoh, who do you think will be at the bottom of the average ratings this time?”
“It’s not a financial channel, it’s an entertainment channel!”
“Didn’t the entertainment channel have a live quiz show recently? The quiz show is very popular recently, and I heard that the ratings are quite good.”
“Last week’s programs on the Metropolitan Channel were relatively general, especially the TV shopping program. It is said that there was a problem with one product, and I heard that there was a complaint!”
“The Metropolitan Channel is better than the Finance Channel! In addition to broadcasting news, the Finance Channel just broadcasts TV dramas, and there is nothing new at all!”
At this moment, the secretary came in with a stack of thick forms in his hand.
“Leaders, this is last week’s viewing data.” The secretary distributed the form to everyone.
“Look at the viewing statistics of all programs, the fourth place is not a prime program!”
“You can’t rush into the top five without the golden gear, how is this possible?”
“The fourth place is the Youth Theater of the Caijing Channel. This is from 6:00 to 7:00!”
“How is this possible? From 6:00 to 7:00, the prime time is down. The Youth Theater of Caijing Channel, what TV series is on this week? It has such a high ratings!”
“It can compare to the golden stage. If it is in the golden stage, it will be the champion of ratings! Go and find out what TV series it is.”
On the newspaper rack in the conference room, there happens to be a radio and television newspaper with a week’s program preview of each channel.
“Financial Channel, Youth Theater, I found it. The TV series they played last week was called “Meteor Garden”!”
The ratings will not deceive people. “Meteor Garden” has been broadcast on several local channels and has achieved good ratings, which has also attracted attention in the industry.
Finally, a star channel decided to introduce “Meteor Garden”.
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The phone rang, Li Weidong looked at the caller ID, and it was Zhong Yemao who called.
“Hey, old Zhong, call early in the morning, is there something urgent?” Li Weidong asked.
“A good news or a bad news, which one do you listen to first?” Zhong Yemao said.
“Bad news!” Li Weidong said.
“**** has issued a notice to the provincial radio and television departments, requesting that “Meteor Garden” be stopped immediately!” Zhong Yemao said.
“Some of the plots in “Meteor Garden” do not conform to mainstream values, and are easy to teach bad children. It is normal to be banned.” Li Weidong paused, and asked: “Oh, what about the bad news? ?”
Zhong Yemao was stunned for two seconds, and then repeated: “**** has sent a notice to the provincial radio and television departments, requesting that “Meteor Garden” be stopped immediately!”
“I see, what I’m asking is bad news!” Li Weidong said.
“What I just said was bad news!” Zhong Yemao said, Chairman, do you want to check your ears?
Li Weidong said, “This is not bad news, this is clearly good news!”
Zhong Yemao was stunned for a few seconds, and then said, “Chairman, did I not make it clear that “Meteor Garden” has been banned, how can it be good news for us!
We have implanted a lot of advertisements in “Meteor Garden”. If “Meteor Garden” can be broadcast on Xingxing Channel, audiences across the country can see “Meteor Garden”, and they can also see our implantation. advertisment.
But now that “Meteor Garden” has been banned, the advertisements we implanted will naturally not be released. This is a waste of a channel for advertising. What a pity! ”
Li Weidong laughed: “Old Zhong, I don’t think so. I think the more banned it is, the more popular “Meteor Garden” will be!”
“Meteor Garden is a TV series. It is not allowed to be broadcast on TV. It means that the most important communication channel for TV series has been cut off. How could “Meteor Garden” still become popular!” Zhong Yemao said.
Li Weidong asked in return: “Old Zhong, do you know the fans of “Water Margin”?”
“A fan of “Water Margin”?” Zhong Yemao obviously didn’t react.
“It’s the prequel to Wu Song’s killing of his sister-in-law.” Li Weidong then explained.
Zhong Yemao thought about it carefully before he knew what Li Weidong was talking about.
“It turned out that the chairman was talking about that book!” Zhong Yemao sighed, secretly thinking that our chairman is really a hooligan with culture and connotation.
Li Weidong went on to say: “Isn’t that a banned book! But I didn’t even mention the name, didn’t you guess it? And the reputation of this book is probably second only to the four famous books! So you just wait. Look at it, the more this is banned, the more popular “Meteor Garden” will be!”
After hanging up the phone, Li Weidong only remembered that he was thinking about talking about his colleagues in “Water Margin”, and forgot to ask what the good news was!
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As Li Weidong said, “Meteor Garden” became even more popular after the broadcast was banned.
Young people who didn’t know this TV series at first, so the name of “Meteor Garden” was also aroused by curiosity.
Curiosity is a fatal flaw of human beings. There is a saying in the West that “curiosity killed the cat”. When people’s curiosity is aroused, they will always find ways to satisfy their curiosity.
So those who haven’t watched “Meteor Garden” bought pirated VCDs of “Meteor Garden” one after another, wanting to see why this TV series was banned.
The pirated VCD of “Meteor Garden” instantly became a hot commodity, and it was swept away as soon as it arrived, and some people were even willing to pay a deposit to let the peddler who sold the pirated VCD reserve a set of “Meteor Garden”.
For a while, “Meteor Garden” had a phenomenal effect, and even F4 exploded instantly.
At this time, F4 had released their first album, and this album immediately became the best-selling product in the video store. The four singers from non-professional backgrounds overwhelmed Jay Chou and Stefanie Sun, the most popular Chinese music scene at that time. .
And various F4 posters have also become the best-selling products on street stalls, such as around middle schools or universities, or on street stalls in night markets. If there is no F4 poster, it is incomplete!
F4 exploded in the mainland, and Li Weidong immediately contacted his cousin Zhou Rugui and planned to invite F4 to the mainland to participate in several publicity activities.
Li Weidong has invested in F4 for so long, and now he is finally about to start reaping the benefits of F4.
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(end of this chapter)