Chapter 509 Jiayi Television Station

In many occasions, Lin Hao does not need to show up at all. He just needs to leave all matters to his subordinates. If necessary, Lin Hao can even use possession.

Therefore, Lin Hao was not afraid of being assassinated at all. Since others could not hurt him, what was there to be afraid of?

Originally, Lin Hao just wanted to make money, but now Lin Hao found out that someone doesn't let him make money, so Lin Hao will not be polite!

However, the time to deal with them has not yet come, and we are just completing the layout.

Speaking of layout, Lin Hao almost forgot about South Korea. Therefore, after the Eagle Sauce layout was completed, Lin Hao still sent someone to South Korea.

South Korea's economy has also begun to take off, and the national per capita GDP has reached 669 billion US dollars!
Although it is only a fraction of the island country's GDP, a mosquito is still meat, and leeks can grow on their own after all.

In the next ten years or so, GDP will continue to rise, and may increase tenfold to more than 500 billion US dollars. By then, ordinary people will have money.

Well, let's wait for a dozen years, and by that time the GDP of the island country will have reached 5 trillion US dollars. After thinking about it, I feel that South Korea is a bit tasteless and it would be a pity to throw it away.

However, even so, South Korea has begun to industrialize at a rapid pace, so Lin Hao plans to take a ride with them.

Not only that, Lin Hao is also preparing to replace the Sanxing Group and become the most core group in South Korea!
The main development of the Sanxing Group actually started in 1965, but at that time it was mainly the establishment of an insurance company that began an era of rapid expansion.

In the 1970s, the company's real core competitiveness began to shift to electronics and shipbuilding, and then began to explode.

There is a saying in Korea that there are three things that a Korean cannot live without in his life.

Death, taxes, and three wakes.

However, the Three Awakenings are currently in the development stage and have not yet reached their peak. At this time, the people sent by Lin Hao began to exert their strength.

Shuangmu Group was officially established.

He directly entered the insurance business, and then expanded it through the insurance business. By occupying the upstream, and with Lin Hao's personal trip to South Korea and a few words with their young leader, many problems of the Shuangmu Group were solved.

In just a few dozen days, it obtained a banking license and began to expand rapidly, while using the insurance business to select a group of wealthy people.

Well, it’s the same familiar routine, the Ponzi scheme starts first and then the profits are reaped gradually.

Lin Hao has money, and South Korea also has money, but Lin Hao chooses to take both.

Then a series of means such as clubs and gambling on stones emerged and quickly entered the global trade system woven by Lin Hao.

However, South Korea provides a large amount of talent output through the Life-threatening Club, while also opening up personal connections and relationships.

After all, South Korean female employees at this time are still energetic and willing to work hard.

After doing all this, Lin Hao can finally take a break.

Therefore, when Lin Hao was extremely bored, he suddenly thought of the Hong Kong entertainment circle. He had been here for so long, but he only accepted one person, Di Bola. This was not his character.

After thinking about the female stars of this era, Lin Hao suddenly thought of White Snake, whom he had met once before.

I don’t know if she was suffering from domestic violence at that time, but Lin Hao estimated that it wouldn’t be long before it happened.

Before, because Bai Niangzi was a married woman, the relationship between them was pretty good, she had just given birth to a child, and she was longing for love and family, so there was no opportunity for him to take advantage of her.

Now Lin Hao felt that the time was almost right. Then Lin Hao thought that she was about to film The Legend of Chu Liuxiang, and Lin Hao probably couldn't interfere with this drama.

However, there was another drama, The Bund, which made her famous. I don’t know whether the script of The Bund had been written at that time.

"It probably wasn't written down!" Lin Hao guessed in his heart.

Because Hong Kong televisions at that time generally broadcast while filming. If the ratings were good, they would continue filming, and if not, they would just cut it.

Afterwards, Lin Hao sent someone to TVB to inquire about the situation of the two dramas. It turned out that The Legend of Chu Liuxiang had indeed been approved as a project and was making early preparations.

There was no news from Shanghai for the time being, and when Lin Hao tried to intervene in the legend of Chu Liuxiang, he found that no one paid any attention to him.

Looking at Shao Dong who didn't even want to see him, Lin Hao discovered something he had overlooked before, that is, whether he was too low-key.

But it is also true that although he has made a lot of noise in the island country, people here in Hong Kong don't know about it. On the one hand, he is hiding underwater to avoid causing backlash from the island people.

On the other hand, in Hong Kong Island, Lin Hao’s gambling on stones mainly involved contact with the underground society, and he hid himself behind the scenes to avoid being liquidated in the future.

It's just an Eternal Star Trading Company that sells televisions, which is pretty impressive. But I was mainly in the island country before, so it's normal that people in Hong Kong don't know me.

However, Lin Hao was still very unhappy. Originally, Lin Hao wanted to invest in TVB, but it seems that he has no chance.

Lin Hao had previously learned that there were three other founders of TVB. If Lin Hao acquired their shares, he should be able to compete with Mr. Shao.

However, Lin Hao thinks that does not make much sense, because what Lin Hao wants now is not just controlling stake, what Lin Hao wants is control.

Lin Hao needed a wholly-owned TV station, and just in time, Lin Hao discovered an opportunity, which was Jiayi TV, which was about to go bankrupt.

However, Jiayi itself also has a huge problem, and the root of its problem lies in the Great Ying Empire's control over Hong Kong Island.

Hong Kong Island seems to be a free world, but in fact, Britain has always had a tight control over Hong Kong Island.

In the 1960s and 1970s, many companies close to the mainland were suppressed in various ways in Hong Kong and even in the Federation of British.

ATV, one of the three free TV stations in Hong Kong Island, is the most obvious example.

On August 1973, 8, Hong Kong issued two wireless television operating licenses. ATV obtained the operating rights of a "Chinese television station" and was required to devote part of its time to broadcasting educational programs. Such programs could not meet the needs of the audience, resulting in an imbalance in ATV's ratings.

Another is that Rediffusion Television has obtained the operating rights of a new "Chinese and English TV station".

This means that ATV, unlike the other two TV stations, can only operate one Chinese channel.

It has to be said that the birth of ATV was a tragedy. The various restrictions imposed on it by the Hong Kong government caused it to be trapped to death even though it had opened up new opportunities.

The investors behind the scenes took a gamble and spent huge sums of money to recruit a large number of talents. The management lived up to expectations and produced many excellent TV programs, which were also loved by the people of Hong Kong Island.

ATV has produced many classic film and television series, and even broadcast Michelle Yim's version of "The Return of the Condor Heroes" which caused a sensation in Hong Kong. Later, there were other high-quality TV series such as "Sword of the Stained Steel" and "Snow Mountain Flying Fox".

ATV is coming on strong and is hailed as the prototype of the three major TV stations in Hong Kong. However, no matter how good the dramas are, they cannot make up for the inherent defects. Part of the broadcast time must be used to broadcast educational programs.

However, such programs could not meet the needs of the audience, resulting in an imbalance in ratings at Jiayi and a rapid deterioration in its finances.

The Hong Kong government then investigated them for economic issues. At this time, the new management team also realized that it was the various restrictions imposed by the Hong Kong government that were the fundamental reason why the TV station could not develop.

In order to get rid of this constraint, they persuaded investors to put pressure on the British Hong Kong government by terminating operations, but some people ended up getting into trouble.

He actually took the initiative to spread the word and contacted several Hong Kong businessmen who were close to the mainland, saying that he wanted to sell Jiayi TV to them.

Lin Hao seriously suspected that this was done intentionally by some shareholders. You know, among the shareholders of Jiayi TV Station, there is a guy called Jardine Matheson.

It was the one that mainly engaged in the trade of pressed tea and tea leaves. When the ban on opium was implemented in 1839, William Jardine, the founder of Jardine Matheson, personally lobbied the British government in London to go to war with the Qing Dynasty, and also advocated taking Hong Kong Island from the Qing Dynasty as a trading base.

Among them... (It is not convenient to go into the following, otherwise this chapter will be dangerous!)

Thinking of this, Lin Hao couldn't help but frowned, because of Jiayi TV's inherent deficiencies, coupled with the instigation of suspected traitors, and various targeting and restrictions in the later period.

Therefore, even if Lin Hao took over, he still could not change the outcome of losses.

However, these are not big problems for Lin Hao.

First, let’s talk about the issue of operating at a loss. Lin Hao earns billions of dollars a year, and the TV station loses millions. For Lin Hao, it’s really nothing and he can afford the loss.

Secondly, Lin Hao's consortium needs such a publicity mouthpiece. Compared with the income of the entire group, it cannot even be said to be a loss. The annual advertising expenses are more than this.

In addition, Jiayi itself has cultivated talent resources for so many years. From logistical workers to TV stars, from post-production to management, everything is ready-made, which will save Lin Hao countless time and energy.

The most important thing is that with Lin Hao's advice, this TV station may not necessarily suffer losses, such as scheduling educational programs in the most niche time periods, or adding novel variety shows and TV dramas.

It just so happened that The Bund had not been filmed yet and there was not even a script, so Lin Hao took action immediately.

However, he was not going to prepare for a new drama, but to go to the Governor's Mansion to meet with Governor MacLehose.

At this time, Governor MacLehose was having a headache facing the protest march by Jiayi employees. He naturally knew about Jiayi's affairs.

After hearing Lin Hao's request, they were naturally happy for someone to take over, but on the premise that it did not disrupt their plans.

Lin Hao immediately understood what the white old man was thinking, and also knew why Hong Kong people required that Cantonese must be spoken when speaking Chinese.

Isn’t it just the same thing about cultural division? And there’s also...!
However, these people with the Ying Empire in their name do not know that Cantonese itself is also one of the authentic ancient Chinese languages. Moreover, the policy of standard writing and standard railway track has been implemented for two thousand years and cannot be changed in just one or two decades.

Unless the Han people were not allowed to speak Chinese when they first seized this small fishing village, it would be impossible to change this bloodline inheritance that is integrated into their genes in a short period of time.

Moreover, if they are not allowed to speak Chinese, how much manpower, material resources and financial resources will they have to invest?

Even a small matter like Daiying has to be discussed for three to five years, and then a new prime minister overturns the previous policy. It is simply impossible to do so.

Let's get back to the point. The final result of the discussion was to wait for Jiayi TV Station to announce its bankruptcy and stop broadcasting, and then Lin Hao would become the savior and acquire Jiayi in full.

This is also what Lin Hao hoped for. After all, Jiayi’s share structure was too complicated before.

The logo of ATV is a circular hexagon composed of six lines at 120-degree angles.

It represents the "Six Arts" of Chinese Confucianism - rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy and mathematics; it also represents the six major shareholders of ATV.

Among the six shareholders, Commercial Radio had the greatest control. The others were the Lam Ping-yen family (one of the founders of Hang Seng Bank), Jardine Matheson, and the three most important Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong at the time.

That is, the pro-Red Party newspapers with very high credibility - "Sing Tao Daily", "Overseas Chinese Daily" and "King's Daily" (among them, only Sing Tao Daily is still published, but the difference is that its current stance has become pro-Red).

Lin Hao naturally hopes to acquire all the shares to avoid being constrained in the future. After all, if Lin Hao takes over the TV station, he may not necessarily lose money.

After all, the Governor of Hong Kong has agreed that the time for educational programs can be arranged by Lin Hao, and he also agreed that Lin Hao can open a new satellite station.

After Lin Hao achieved his goal, he began to draw key members from Eternal Star, ready to take over Jiayi TV at any time.

At the same time, Lin Hao also wrote the plot outline of The Bund, recruited a group of screenwriters, and explored screenwriters in TVB.

Then let them fill in the content according to their own story outline and do some preliminary preparation.

Sure enough, within a few days, Jiayi TV suddenly issued a statement announcing the cessation of operations and posted a notice at the company's gate stating that Jiayi TV would cease operations from that day on.

After ATV's sudden closure, most of its staff and artists went to the Colonial Secretariat to petition the government to lend a helping hand in resuming the station, but to no avail.

They didn't know that if Lin Hao hadn't wanted this mess, Jiayi TV would have been forced to death long ago.

However, although it has been shut down, it has not gone bankrupt after all, and no one thinks they will go bankrupt at this time.

However, what was unexpected was that Jiayi TV declared bankruptcy the very next day.

Just when everyone was feeling regretful, ATV fell, and the people of Hong Kong Island also lost a TV station that produced excellent TV dramas.

Eternal Star Trading Company suddenly announced in a high-profile manner that it had acquired Jiayi Television in full, which immediately shocked everyone.

So everyone started to ask what kind of company this Eternal Star was. Since Lin Hao did not cover up anything, the company's situation was quickly investigated.

Then, shocking headlines appeared in the newspapers one after another:

"Surprise! One hundred thousand color TVs sold in one year!"

“It turns out that this humble trading company has sold more than 100,000 televisions in the past year or so!”

"Breaking news~~ The origin of 50 million Hong Kong dollars!"

"According to insiders, in just over a year, the company's net profit exceeded 50 million Hong Kong dollars."

As the boss of this company, Lin Hao's identity was naturally exposed to everyone.

(End of this chapter)