Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

In the competition with TVB, ATV has always been at a disadvantage. It is only because of Lin Daoqiu's presence in these years that ATV's performance is much better than in the previous life.

Ever since the news of Lin Daoqiu and Qiu Degen's falling out spread throughout Hong Kong, ATV's ratings began to steadily decline.

From the peak of nearly 4 to 6, it has fallen to 2 to 8. If this continues, ATV will fall into the same situation as in the previous life.

Qiu Degen originally thought that it would not matter even without Lin Daoqiu's help. Anyway, ATV had stabilized, and even if the ratings dropped, it would not drop much.

But he still underestimated Lin Daoqiu's role in ATV and overestimated ATV's potential.

ATV, which originally turned a profit last year, has seen a sharp decline in revenue in more than half a year. It is almost certain that the financial report will be ugly by the end of the year.

Although the loss is not much, for ATV, this is equivalent to letting all their previous efforts go to waste.

"Is there no way to reverse the current predicament?"

On this day, Qiu Degen brought Qiu Degen to ATV and convened a meeting with the management to discuss.

Huang Xizhao and Xu Xiaoming were sitting at the lower left of Qiu Degen, and everyone else in the conference room lowered their heads silently when they heard Qiu Degen's question.

Compared with before, ATV's investment has been significantly reduced in recent years, and the salaries of middle and lower-level artists have been stagnant, coupled with Qiu Degen's always frugal attitude.

In the past year, it can be said that the funds invested in ATV's TV drama shooting have been even more restricted than before.

Unless it is a large-scale production, ordinary TV dramas can hardly get high production fees, which has also led to the uneven production level of ATV dramas.

"Manager Huang, please tell me."

Finding no one was talking, Qiu Degen had no choice but to name Huang Xizhao.

In fact, Huang Xizhao doesn't have any good ideas. He is a very good manager, but if you want him to lead ATV to defeat TVB, it is almost impossible.

In fact, what Huang Xizhao is best at is discovering talents. From the beginning of "The Beautiful Three Heroes" to later personally visiting Lin Daoqiu to invite Lin Daoqiu to write dramas for ATV, it can be said that his vision of selecting people is very accurate.

However, if he wants to fight against a behemoth like Wireless, if he does not have sufficient funds for him to allocate, then I am afraid that it will be difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw.

"ATV's ratings have indeed been declining recently. On the one hand, our work is not done properly, but there are also many reasons."

Lin Daoqiu's departure and ATV's investment reduction, if ATV's ratings can be stabilized under such circumstances, then Huang Xizhao may not be a human but a god.

Qiu Degen knew very well that most of the many reasons mentioned by Huang Xizhao were due to his own relationship.

In fact, speaking of it, Qiu Degen never expected that a bad relationship with Lin Daoqiu would cause ATV to decline so quickly.

But it was obviously impossible for him to admit defeat or mistake to Lin Daoqiu at this time.

"Now that everyone knows where the problem lies, we must work hard in the future. I hope that before the end of the year, I can see significant improvements in ATV."

Qiu Degen is obviously trying to force others to do something difficult. Now for Huang Xizhao and the others, let alone stabilizing the ratings, it is already a big deal if they can prevent the ratings from falling to a ratio of 1:9.

After returning to his office, Qiu Degen looked very unhappy as soon as he sat down.

"Father, to improve the current situation of ATV, we must increase investment, but if we want to defeat TVB, I think it will be difficult to reach the sky."

Although Qiu Degen knew that Qiu Degen didn't want to hear this, he still felt that he should tell the truth.

Turning his head to look at Qiu Degen, Qiu Degen did not speak, although he also knew that what his son said was true.

"If this situation continues, ATV will lose at least more than 20 million or more every year."

Qiu Dagen has made calculations and believes that continuing to operate ATV under such circumstances is tantamount to throwing money into a fire pit.

"Then what do you think we should do? Is it possible that we want to sell ATV to Lin Daoqiu?"

Qiu Degen knew that his son had always advocated selling ATV to Lin Daoqiu to get rid of this burden from the Far East Group.

Qiu Dagen did not avoid it. He nodded directly and admitted that this was indeed what he thought.

"Huh... ATV's predicament is only temporary. As long as it produces a few well-received and well-received TV series, the ratings will naturally return to their original track."

Qiu Dagen has no way to deal with his father's stubbornness. If ATV's problem can really be solved so easily, then he is really underestimating Shaw and Fong Yihua.

Qiu Degen then called Huang Xizhao and Xu Xiaoming to his office.

"I plan to invest an additional 100 million yuan to make four major productions."

Qiu Degen actually planned to invest an additional 100 million yuan, which shocked Huang Xizhao and Xu Xiaoming.

Of course it is a good thing to have money to film. If this is the case, then next year ATV's TV dramas should not be too much pressured by TVB, and may even overtake TVB.

"bell……"

At this moment, the phone on Qiu Degen's desk suddenly rang.

Qiu Degen picked up the phone and said casually.

"I am Qiu Degen..."

I don’t know what I said to Qiu Degen on the phone, I just saw his frown.

After putting down the phone, Qiu Degen looked a little uneasy.

"You guys go back and do your work first."

Huang Xizhao and Xu Xiaoming didn't know what happened, but they didn't dare to ask, so they had no choice but to leave Qiu Degen's office.

After Huang Xizhao and Xu Xiaoming left, Qiu Dagen asked hurriedly.

"Father, what happened?"

Qiu Degen could hide it from others, but he couldn't hide it from his own son.

"People from the Commercial Crime Investigation Division just came to the company to find me and said that I was suspected of forging false accounts."

Qiu Dagen's eyes immediately popped out when he heard this.

A week later, a business weekly first disclosed the news. Suddenly, the news was like a stone that stirred up a thousand waves.

Everyone began to have different opinions, some said it was a lie, but some people said it should be true.

But regardless of whether this incident is true or not, Qiu Degen has not appeared in front of the public since that day.

As a result, the turmoil intensified. Some people said that Qiu Degen had left Xiangjiang and went abroad. There were even rumors that Qiu Degen had been arrested. But as for the facts, only a few people knew.

Among the people who were most concerned about this incident, Lin Daoqiu was undoubtedly one of them.