My Entertainment Circle

Chapter 974 There are many stories on TV (Part 2)

Now MBC employees are full of resentment when talking about their president and representative. Zhang Pingan knows that all this resentment is laying the foundation for next year's general strike. I don't know what kind of fault the president's representative has, but he is now interfering too much with the rights of the program team. Artists he doesn't like are not allowed to be used. And the funding approval submitted by the program team is really hard to describe.

In the original words of the program directors, ‘If I use this little money to invite others to participate in the program, they will be too embarrassed to ask. ’ This shows how difficult it is for the program team to get funding approval. What is the concept of being embarrassed to ask for appearance fees? To put it bluntly, it is to give people who come to participate in the show some travel expenses to pass the time.

If it were a TV show ten years ago, it would still be possible, because at that time, TV stations were the only way for artists to promote themselves. At that time, it would be reasonable for the program team to pay a little travel fee for artists to do the show. But in today's era... Let's not talk about the competition between TV stations. The Internet has also had a huge impact on TV stations. Nowadays, it’s not just TV stations that compete with TV stations, but also some online competition.

Now MBC's president and representative are reluctant to spend money on production, and they also want to intervene in the guest invitations of the program. If a popular artist at the moment doesn't have money, he doesn't want to ask for it, but he still demands that the program team raise the ratings?

If you want the horse to run, then you have to let the horse eat, right? But he doesn't care about that much. If he doesn't give it to you, you still have to improve the ratings.

The current situation is: he is not willing to spend money, and you have to do what he asks, and even requires that your program’s ratings must be raised.

If you say that your program's ratings cannot increase, you will inevitably be criticized, and even if it's serious, your bonus will be deducted. Moreover, the bonus he deducted was not from the person who acted as PD, but from all the staff of the entire program team. You said that if he did this, how could it not arouse the resentment of the employees below? Behind the scenes, the ancestors represented by the president of the TV station had been greeted many times.

If it weren't for the difficulty of finding jobs now, the people at these TV stations would no longer want to tolerate his tone. Nowadays, employees of MBC TV station scold their sleazy director behind his back every day after work.

Zhang Ping'an listened to their complaints here, and he also laughed and complained: "Recently, your TV station has been too hard on our company's funds. The advertising revenue from half a year ago has still not been paid off. It makes us no longer interested in cooperating with your station on new programs.”

Listening to Zhang Ping'an's complaint, the photographer smiled and said: "You have only been here for half a year. I have heard that many actors have appeared in TV series invested by our station. It has been more than a year and they still haven't received their money." Yes. If he continues to mess up like this, our union will definitely liquidate the director."

Zhang Ping'an couldn't laugh or cry when he heard these inside stories.

Liquidate the director? Of course Zhang Pingan knew that their TV station would hold a general strike next year and the station director would be fired!

Therefore, Zhang Pingan is not afraid of MBC's debts, because after the later station director came to power, you will always have to pay these debts with certificates.

As for ‘MBC’, does it have any money now? Zhang Ping'an knew that they really didn't have much money. The MBC in Sangam-dong was built so huge, so it was all money. It can be said that the building of 'MBC' is currently mortgaged in the bank, and there are so many employees in the TV station to support. It can be said that they really have no money in the station. This is also the reason why they have been owed money to investors such as Zhang Pingan.

The way TV stations make money is through advertising, variety shows, or TV series they invest in. Nowadays, the only TV station that makes regular money is the ace "No Choice". In addition, in order to save some production costs, the program team, Liu Zaishi and others have not had a salary increase for so many years since 2008. Basically, their "No Choice" members rely on their ratings to support their idea of ​​appearing at low prices.

As for "The Mask", it is also good. The problem is that "The Mask" is a cooperation between TV and Zhang Pingan. The TV station has to give half of the profits to Zhang Pingan. So when it comes to making money, it is still not as good as "No Challenge". After all, "No Challenge" was produced by their own station. As for "Living Alone", which has good ratings, it is funded by Zhang Ping'an, and its income has nothing to do with the TV station. Even the advertising money of the manufacturers does not go to the TV station.

Then, then it disappeared, and now even the ratings of the previous ace program "My Knot" are dying. As for investment in TV dramas in Taiwan in recent years, their station has not made any hits, so they really have no money!

After Zhang Pingan had lunch with the MBC employees, he paid the bill. Although everyone had already started eating when he went to eat, the meal only cost tens of thousands of won. He was the PD after all. 'Woolen cloth.

After coming out of the restaurant, they did not rush back to the TV station, but stood on the roadside and started smoking.

Zhang Ping'an looked at the young lighting engineer and couldn't help but look back at the weather anchors who were sitting there touching up their makeup. He smiled and said, "Weather anchors, aren't they beautiful?"

The old cameraman who was standing in front smoking smiled and said to the young lighting engineer: "What are you looking at, you brat? These weather anchors, no matter how blind they are, are still looking for a doctor. We ordinary people can still count on it." Come on, let me tell you, don’t even watch it, lest you young people won’t be able to sleep at night after watching too much.”

Zhang Ping'an continued what the cameraman said: "I can't sleep, what should I do? Let's take a walk in the cool air?"

Cheongnyangni in Seoul used to be the same as the famous ‘Dongwan’ in China, but of course it is definitely banned now. Although 'Cheongnyangni' is banned, there are still many KTVs and special services in hotels. Of course, when Zhang Ping'an said 'Qingliangli' it just meant 'that'.

All the big brothers present burst into laughter: "Hahaha~~!"

Zhang Ping'an said with a smile: "Which station are these from? I haven't seen them on any of the familiar stations."

The young lighting engineer smiled and said: "They are from Chosun TV, and the one with chestnut hair is anchor Huang Mina."

Zhang Ping'an smiled and patted the lighting engineer on the shoulder and said, "You can hear me clearly. Didn't you take the initiative to ask for a phone number or something?"

The lighting engineer shook his head and said: "Just take a look, we are too far away from their anchors. Their minimum requirements are probably at the anchor level, let's forget it."

Zhang Ping'an didn't have much to say about the lighting engineer's inferiority complex or the reality of the situation, because too much he said was of no practical significance. In today's first-tier cities, there is a concept of "matching", at least the level must be almost the same to have that possibility!

They gathered to smoke, and Zhang Ping'an said goodbye: "You guys take your time and work, I'll leave first, I have a meeting over there."

The big brother smiled and said: "Okay, PD, thank you for the entertainment at noon."

After watching Zhang Ping'an walking away in the direction of '', they started chatting: "PD Zhang, you are a really nice person. Every time our program team has a dinner party, their company pays for the dinner party. It is said to be a cooperative program, But the TV station has never allocated a penny for us to have dinner. Every time we have dinner, 'PD Zhang' goes to their company with the bill. It's not that I was bribed by PD Zhang's meal, but there is no comparison. There is no gap.”

"I haven't heard any negative comments about Zhang Pingan in more than two years."

“If I had money, I could have zero negative reviews!”

"Hahaha, this is the truth, hahaha~~~!"

, Luo Yingshi and the staff came out of the ‘CJ’ Twin Towers when Zhang Pingan was receiving the temporary pass. He looked at Zhang Ping'an from a distance and shouted: "PD Zhang, yo, are you a rare visitor?"

Zhang Pingan looked at Luo Yingshi and Li Youzhen and said, "PD Luo, Writer Li, where are you going?"

Luo Yingshi greeted Zhang Pingan and said, "Of course I'm going to eat. Where else can we go? Have you eaten? If not, let's go together."

Zhang Ping'an responded: "I just came in after eating. I'll go first." I'll be back in a while. You guys go to eat first."

Luo Yingshi nodded, and they went to eat.

Today, among the TV stations, the ones that are most willing to spend money are not the original "three major TV stations" but these private TV stations. tvN is very willing to spend money on TV series investment and variety show production.

TV stations that are willing to invest will naturally produce better results than other TV stations. And tvN, in the past two years, not only have Zhang Pingan and Luo Yingshi collaborated very well on variety shows, but the TV series they invested in have also become quite popular!

Zhang Ping'an arrived and saw that many people in the department were not in their seats, probably going out to eat or something. The employees present saw Zhang Ping'an arriving and greeted him with a smile: "Zhang PD."

"When does lunch break end?"

The staff responded: "One o'clock. Just wait a moment, everyone will be back soon."

The lunch time of the TV station is not like that of schools where everyone goes there in a rush. The TV station still works in batches. Otherwise, all the people in a group will leave. If any leader suddenly comes down and has something to explain, and sees that there is no one in the group, the group leader will definitely be criticized.

Zhang Ping'an nodded and said, "I'll go to the tea room and take a rest."

Zhang Ping'an came to the tea room of the Variety Show Bureau, grabbed two sticks of instant coffee and brewed it himself. After eating a salty and spicy lunch, it was very comfortable to drink a cup of instant coffee with high sugar content.

Zhang Pingan blew a cup of scalding coffee and finished it in a few sips. After a while, a staff member came in and called Zhang Ping'an and said that "PD" was back.

Zhang Pingan then walked out of the tea room. Seeing that the staff were almost back, Zhang Pingan smiled at the program PD and said, "PD Jin, let's have a meeting with the writers."