Chapter 363 TVB Arrives
In the end, Wang Yuanchao did not move Lou Xiao'e and her son to his luxury home in Pok Fu Lam for Wang Xiao's sake. He had originally been prepared to enjoy the happiness of having two wives.

To this end, he arranged a grand wedding for his wife Liu Qijin and even knelt down to present flowers, just to move her so that she would not bully other concubines who did not even have a decent wedding.

But in the end, put yourself in his shoes. If he were his son, facing a grown-up mother every day, and his mother was so cautious, how would the child grow up?
It’s not like he has no money!

Therefore, they purchased land and built luxury houses in traditional luxury residential areas such as Repulse Bay, Deep Water Bay, Kedoorie Hill and Kowloon Tong, which were left as heirlooms for each family.

In this way, Liu Qijin wouldn't have to feel annoyed by his concubines, and the concubines wouldn't have to be so cautious and timid with their children in front of the head wife.

Everyone can live in peace.

Another telegram came from Muse Music:

The Carpenter brothers and sisters released the single "Close to You" under the name of the Carpenter Band at the end of last year. It became an instant hit, ranked eighth on the Billboard charts, and won a gold record (sales of 500,000).

Inspired by Wang Yuanchao's wedding, Carpenter wrote "We've Only Just Begun", which also reached fifth place and became a wedding song like "Sugar".

As for the first and third songs on the list, they are the classic masterpieces "Yesterday Once More" and "Hotel California" that Wang Yuanchao "created" for Carpenter. The former is Carpenter's masterpiece, and the latter is the masterpiece of the Eagles. Wang Yuanchao "created" them in advance.

The Carpenters released three hit songs and sold millions of records in just one month, earning them platinum status.

As for the Jokers, the lead singer, guitar and bass are all stable, and the substitute keyboardist and drummer quickly filled the positions of the Carpenters. They brought new works such as "Sugar", "LoveGame" and "Bad Romance" and repeatedly fought with the Carpenters.

Needless to say, "Sugar" is also a love song.

Love Game continued to depict a powerful central theme about love, fame, and sex, continuing the style of the Jokers. There was also a line in the lyrics "I want to ride on your disco stick", and Debbie Harry even kissed the dancing policewoman during the performance. It was criticized and became a hit.

Let’s not talk about “Bad Romance”, Wang Yuanchao caught a sheep and almost plucked it bald. This song has a powerful rhythm, but music critics commented that it is a sleazy song with no central idea.

With the competition from the Carpenters, the audience split into two groups, each supporting its own band.

One team is more gentle, with positive lyrics; the other team is more explosive, with lyrics related to sex and love, which is in line with the current sexual liberation movement in the United States.

And the Jokers just swept the Grammy Awards last year, winning five nominations and five awards: Best Album Cover, Best Album of the Year, Best Song of the Year, Best Record of the Year, and Best Pop Duo or Group.

I couldn't win more simply because there were only so many awards to win, and I really couldn't win other folk and R&B awards.

So it has a huge fan base.

But since there is the liberation faction, there is naturally the traditional faction. The traditional faction particularly likes the Carpenters, a band that split from the Clown Band. They think that the Carpenters are lambs who have strayed and returned to the right path!

The two forces each promoted their own bands and quarreled with each other. The hosts and music critics also took advantage of their profession to criticize the other side, either overtly or covertly, to defend their own idols.

But no matter what, the bands and songs at the front of the billboard are all from Muse Music.

It's a fight between one band and another, it's so lively.

Wang Yuanchao made a fortune.

Warner Music is no exception. They finally acquired Elektra Records at a high price and fanned the flames, taking advantage of the competitive relationship between artists. Through various strategies such as media voices, concerts, on-demand, and sales, they stimulated fans of both sides and promoted in-depth and blind consumption of fans. Warner has the strength to do so.

Wang Yuanchao was very satisfied with the performance of the two bands, as well as Thomas and Cruise. Now that he had money, he bought a house there and stored it. The stocks he was familiar with had not appeared yet, so he could not invest in them.

When talking about the United States, we naturally have to mention Hasbro's cartoons.

It was given away for free to the TV station, and the animation quality was good enough to surpass the crude Superman cartoons of the same period.

Children's minds are brainwashed, and Hasbro's dolls, equipment and clothing are very popular.

Blizzard Toy Factory also expanded production, and with Hasbro's orders alone, Blizzard's annual profit was close to 50 million Hong Kong dollars! More than 8 million US dollars!
All we can say is that Hasbro makes more money.

With the example of Hasbro, it would be much easier to convince Disney and win Disney's toy OEM business. After all, who can resist money?

Disney's toy department even came to Hong Kong to inspect Blizzard and eventually signed an order worth five million U.S. dollars.

Blizzard makes $2 million!
As long as the cooperation goes smoothly, Disney's business profits will only increase and not decrease.

DC's parent company was acquired by Warner, and Warner naturally knew that Hasbro's animation was a collaboration between Femison and Hong Kong Blizzard Animation. In particular, Hong Kong Blizzard Animation has extremely low costs (for the United States). Warner is still discussing whether to cooperate with Hong Kong Blizzard. Femison has already outsourced a lot of its animation business to Hong Kong Blizzard. Isn't the cost saved a profit?
The animation designer of Feimeison never expected that teaching his apprentice would starve him to death.

But labor costs in the United States are much more expensive than in Hong Kong!
After learning of Warner Animation's plan, Feimeisun used its connections to lower the price, which made Warner lose the motivation to seek cooperation with Hong Kong Blizzard. It is better to use an old partner than an unfamiliar company, and at most raise the requirements a little.

Feimeixun has almost become a middleman, taking on jobs and outsourcing. Wang Yuanchao is also happy to be exploited, after all, Blizzard is not qualified to take jobs directly from outside.

Once he has trained enough talent, he will have plenty of ways to reap the lost profits.
-
After intensive preparations, the long-dormant Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant kicked off on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Miss Hong Kong is based on "Miss Universe" and "Miss World", and has signed contracts with these two beauty pageant organizations. The Miss Hong Kong champion will go to participate in these two famous international beauty pageants.

In order to distinguish it from previous nightclub beauty pageants, this year's competition requires candidates to have graduated from Form 5 (equivalent to a high school diploma), which makes it more upscale than nightclubs.

In the past, beauty pageants were held in nightclubs, where a few judges would select the contestants, but Wang Yuanchao changed the format.

Phoenix Daily publishes a special color page every week, which is filled with unmarried young women from Hong Kong who come to register.

At the beginning, not many people signed up. All girls with qualified academic qualifications were required to show up in Wang Yuanchao's radio stations, newspapers, film companies, and other units, and the company would provide subsidies.

Naturally, there are a lot of beautiful ones and a lot of ordinary ones.

This suddenly made many women in society feel that if they went up there, they would have a chance!
After the photos and information of these girls are published in the newspaper, you can cut out the photo of the contestant you support and send it to the newspaper!

Before the next round of contestants is published, 10 contestants will be selected! It will take a total of one and a half months, 6 rounds, and 60 girls will be selected to participate in the theater's preliminary round!
This is called an open audition!
It is up to ordinary citizens to decide who will step onto the final beauty pageant preliminary stage!

The first and second phases were fine, but the subsequent ones immediately ignited the Hong Kong citizens' enthusiasm for participating in this star-making project. Thinking that this girl was selected by themselves, I felt a special sense of accomplishment.

"Phoenix Daily" was sold out immediately, and some wealthy people bought up all the newspapers at some stalls just to get the women they wanted to recommend onto the preliminary stage.

This incident attracted coverage from other newspapers, including Phoenix Daily itself. Unfortunately, its report was monopolized by others as soon as it came out, and many people were unable to see it.

Damn it, there are people who cheat on votes in every era!

Finally, Phoenix Daily had to ask for help from its owner Wang Yuanchao, who arranged security and restricted each person from buying more than five newspapers at each stall, before the turmoil was calmed down.

Halfway through the competition, TVB's general manager Yu Jingwei came to see me.

He is the co-founder of TVB. The largest shareholder is Li Ho-wo, while Uncle Run Run Shaw has the smallest shares.

Li Ka-shing is the chairman of the board and Yu Jingwei is the general manager.

He is the youngest son of the Yu family, a group of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. His father, Yu Dongxuan, married 11 wives and concubines in his life and had 13 sons and 11 daughters.

However, after his father died, the family property was divided equally among his sons, with each of them having only about 6% of the shares. Then, the eldest brother Yu Jingzhu was the most valued by Yu Dongxuan, and naturally became the third-generation heir of the Yu family.

However, in 57, the eldest brother died suddenly, and the Yu family was once again leaderless and fell into civil strife. Many of the properties were acquired by others, and only Eu Yan Sang Pharmacy remained in family hands.

Young and wealthy, Yu Jingwei loved movies and the many beauties in the film industry, so he followed the Lee family and the Shaw family and partnered to win the first wireless television license.

The Li family has many industries, and Uncle Shaw also has a film career, so the general manager of TVB is Yu Jingwei.

He saw the popular beauty pageant in Phoenix Daily and thought that the preliminary round could be brought to TV!

It not only increased the TV station's ratings, but also helped the beauty pageant gain more fans. It's a win-win situation, right?

He first found the newspaper. Liu Heqing certainly knew what his son-in-law was thinking. How could he agree to help the TV station?
Refuse directly.

But I persisted.

In the end, Liu Heqing had no choice but to tell his son-in-law about the matter.

It was only at this age that Wang Yuanchao realized that the largest shareholder of TVB was not Uncle Shaw, but the Lee family! The Yu family also had a lot of shares, while Uncle Shaw had the lowest. But in the end, all of them were taken by Uncle Shaw.

I don't know what's going on with these people.

Since Uncle Shao Liu can reap the rewards in the end, then Wang Yuanchao can do it too, right?
He had thought about Li before, but John asked for a huge sum of money, so he didn't rush into it.

He has a lot of money and he is not stupid!

Television is far from exploding.

(End of this chapter)