Chapter 248 Cooperation with Zhejiang Satellite TV
Two days later.

According to Yang Xiao's five-year buyout plan, Fan Jun reached an agreement with the Dutch company Talpa.

Although it is a phased plan.

However, the 800 million down payment still made him feel painful.

You have to know that their company was established a few months ago, and they only raised 10 million yuan in financing!

A large part of the money was spent on the establishment of the company, as well as equipment, office, manpower, etc.

During this period, I have reached out to Yang Xiao and asked him to continue investing money together, and it has continued to this day.

Fortunately, the short drama "Never Expected That" became very popular recently, making a lot of money from advertising and gradually getting on the track of profitability.

But even so, the eight million almost drained their company's cash flow account.

Of course, Wanhe Tianyi’s five-year buyout fee was as high as 20 million, but the Dutch Talpa company still gave them some other preferential terms.

For example, after the five-year contract expires, Wanhe Tianyi has the priority right to renew the contract.

Everything in the contract terms is in their favor, ensuring that they will have the copyright back in their hands after the five-year period.

At that time, everything will depend on Yang Xiao’s mood.

To be honest, after five years, the value of a good voice has greatly depreciated and is even going downhill. It is enough to just make enough money in the first few years.

Fan Jun complained on the phone at this time:
"Boss Yang, the contract has been signed and sent over, and the money has been transferred. This is a big gamble. Are you so sure?"

"Haha, Mr. Fan, just wait for Zhejiang TV to come to you for cooperation. By the way, before the program is produced, ask their person in charge to contact me in advance so that I can communicate with them."

"Well, I, Fan Jun, will also sacrifice my life to accompany you."

Hearing this brief reply, Yang Xiao knew that Fan Jun was still worried, so he continued to comfort him:

"Don't worry, Lao Fan. I guarantee that this deal will be the most successful one in the next three years. Just wait and see. If you continue to say that I am a hands-off boss, I will get angry with you."

"No, no, Mr. Yang, you worry enough."

After hearing this, Fan Jun did not dare to be ungrateful.

Some time ago, Yang Xiao hoarded a large number of copyrights, although the copyrights belonged to Shiguang Culture Media.

But if they really have to pay to buy such a popular IP, they don’t have the money.

Moreover, Yang Xiao still plans to produce and sell his own products, and first considers cooperating with them.

Fan Jun has done so much to provide them with content support, what else can he say?

The copyright of "The Voice of Holland" was also obtained out of trust in Yang Xiao, otherwise why would he be willing to spend such a huge price to enter the variety show industry?

What kind of program dares to charge such a high copyright introduction fee?

Isn't this just pure scapegoating?

Fan Jun was skeptical about what Yang Xiao said.

But he believed in Yang Xiao's judgment and believed that the latter would not act rashly because of a mental disorder.

After all, according to the shares of Wanhe Tianyi, Yang Xiao contributed the most.

As a result, before he could worry for more than two days, Fan Jun received a call from Zhejiang TV Station.

"Hello, is this Mr. Fan?"

"Hello, I am, who are you?"

"Mr. Fan, I'm Xia Chenan, the director of Zhejiang Satellite TV. Sorry to bother you. We heard that your company has obtained the copyright of the program "Voice of Holland" from Talpa of the Netherlands?"

Wow, is this show really as good as Yang Xiao said?
The news came out so quickly that even the director of a satellite TV station had to call in person?

The action is so fast!

The copyright hasn’t even warmed up yet, but the smell is coming.

Fan Jun replied on the phone: "Yes, Mr. Xia, the Chinese copyright of The Voice of Holland has been bought out by our company."

"Oh, is Mr. Fan in Yanjing now? I would like to pay him a visit."

"Yes, yes, thank you for coming, Mr. Xia."

After some pleasantries, he hung up the phone.

On the other side, Xia Chenan was a middle-aged man wearing glasses and looking quite elegant.

He also serves as the deputy editor-in-chief of Zhejiang Radio and Television Group, and can be considered a big shot in the system.

In the previous life, he was also the one who made the final decisions on "The Voice of China".

To be honest, he was a little angry at this time!
The copyright of "The Voice of Holland" has been simultaneously favored by Zhejiang Satellite TV and Canxing Culture, and is still in the negotiation stage.

Suddenly, Wanhe Tianyi showed up out of nowhere and intervened.

Moreover, the other party obviously had no intention of joining this tug-of-war, and simply cut the Gordian knot and took it away.

The key point is that Wanhe Tianyi is so fucking rich.

He signed a 20 million contract without any announcement.

No, both of them were still bargaining over a price of one or two million, and you killed the competition directly?

Have you ever played like this?

What? Doesn’t this company Wanhe Tianyi treat money as money?

Aren’t they worried about not being able to recoup their costs if the show doesn’t do well?

In fact, this Canxing Culture Production Company has a connection with Zhejiang Satellite TV.

The parent company behind Canxing Culture is a company called Star Chinese Media.

The boss of this company is a provincial satellite TV variety show director named Tian Ming who started his business.

They all come from the system and are somewhat related to each other, so it is easy for them to talk to each other.

Originally, his relationship with Canxing Culture was like that of two brothers, and they were prepared to invest money and start a business together.

We are brothers, so let’s discuss it together.

The same was true of the ownership of copyright in the previous life.

After the two brothers argued for a long time, the Dutch Talpa company proposed that they work together, and they finally reached an agreement in a certain sense of "joint investment, copyright sharing, joint production, risk sharing, and profit sharing".

As a result, Yang Xiao's sudden attack directly overturned their wishful thinking.

What's the point of discussing this now!
All the business methods have been taken away by others.

How can this not be infuriating?

But now, thanks to Wanhe Tianyi's interception, he has been trapped.

As the director of Zhejiang Satellite TV, he was hoping to acquire the copyright of this program and make a comeback in the variety show business.

Now that I have no chance to produce with Canxing, I can only come to Wanhe Tianyi.

Here is some gossip about the company behind Canxing Production, Star Chinese Media.

This company, because it owned the copyrights of several variety shows such as "The Voice of China", went directly to Hong Kong to submit an IPO application for listing at the end of 2022.

When it was listed, the stock opened at HK$32.4 and it kept rising, reaching HK$128 in more than half a year.

Then, because the singer Coco Lee, who served as a mentor on the show "The Voice of China", complained about the unfairness of the show, it directly led to the suspension of "The Voice of China".

Then, the company's stock price fell from HK$128 to HK$23 in more than ten days.

The company's market value directly evaporated by nearly 330 billion.

Well, this shows how valuable the IP of "China's Voice" is. Xia Chenan is very optimistic about it.

After contacting Fan Jun, Xia Chenan did not delay and immediately booked a flight to the north.

Yang Xiao also got the news from Fan Jun's phone call.

Today was Thursday. I thought, it’s Thursday anyway, so if I round it up it’s almost the same as the weekend.

So he simply skipped classes again.

Yang Xiao booked a plane ticket and flew directly to Yanjing. Then, together with Fan Jun, he met Xia Chenan the next day.

"Hello, Mr. Xia, I'm Fan Jun."

Fan Jun shook hands with Xia Chenan first.

"Hello, Mr. Fan, I'm sorry to bother you with my visit." Xia Chenan smiled and looked at Yang Xiao who was walking with him with some confusion.

This young man was even walking in front of Fan Jun and didn't look like a secretary, so he could naturally see the trick at a glance.

Fan Jun introduced with a smile: "Boss Xia, let me introduce you, this is Yang Xiao, the real boss of Wanhe Tianyi. I am just an employee."

"Oh? I'm sorry for my ignorance."

Upon hearing this, Xia Chenan looked at Yang Xiao in surprise and stretched out his hand: "Hello, Mr. Yang."

"Our CEO Yang is very low-key. He owns a lot of businesses. I won't talk about the Internet companies, but I'll tell you about one you may know, Shiguang Culture Media, which he founded."

"The boss behind Shiguang Culture Media? It's you?"

Xia Chenan was even more surprised. Shiguang Culture Media has been a dark horse in the industry since last year.

It signed several popular online singers and they became very popular on major music platforms.

As a media person, he had naturally heard about it.

The most important thing is that this boss is too mysterious.

It is said that he started out as an online writer and can also write articles and stories, and many of the hit songs that topped the charts were written by him.

This person is not only a literary genius, but also so successful in business. How could he not know?

Now after hearing Fan Jun's introduction, Xia Chenan never imagined that the real person would have such a young face.

"Mr. Yang, you should have just graduated from college, right?"

"Uh, I'm still a freshman."

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Xia Chenan was speechless for a while, thinking that I was wrong. He clicked his tongue twice and said, "It's incredible. Now the younger generation is really pushing the older generation forward. This Internet age is really full of talented people."

Yang Xiao said modestly: "Thank you for the compliment, President Xia."

Xia Chenan quickly calmed down and returned to the topic of this trip.

"Mr. Yang, Mr. Fan, after you acquired the copyright of The Voice of Holland, have you found a partner?"

"Haha, Mr. He from Mango TV is an old friend of mine. He told me yesterday that a leader from their station also wanted to come and visit us to discuss this cooperation issue."

Hearing this, Yang Xiao smiled and boasted that He Jiong had never met him until now, and the so-called old friends were just people who followed each other on Weibo.

However, these words made Xia Chenan feel a sense of crisis. At present, the momentum of variety shows in China is really strongest on Mango TV.

What will happen if we let them take this program away again?

Xia Chenan remained expressionless and smiled, "It seems that I got here first. To be honest, Mr. Yang and Mr. Fan, our Zhejiang Provincial Satellite TV is actually very powerful. I can guarantee that we will use all our capabilities to make this program as good as those abroad."

"Mr. Xia, you came to our door in person with great sincerity. We have seen it. Moreover, since Wanhe Tianyi has paid a huge price for this copyright, we naturally want to make it shine. I wonder how far you can go in achieving this goal?"

“Which step?”

Xia Chenan was confused by Yang Xiao's question.

He doesn't dare to make any promises now, and he doesn't even know what promises to make.

The promises are so exaggerated that one is afraid that the other party won’t believe them.

The promise was too small and obviously couldn't move the other party.

The key point is that he was really scared by Yang Xiao's words that he had intentions with Mango TV.

I’m afraid that after I make a promise, I’ll still be fooled by the other party, which would become a joke.

After living for so many years, he knows better than anyone that one should not be too confident.

Seeing that Yang Xiao didn't say anything, Xia Chenan thought that the latter didn't think much of their Zhejiang Satellite TV and wanted him to give up.

This is human nature.

After all, in the field of variety shows, Mango TV is the big brother in China.

Their Zhejiang Provincial Satellite TV really can’t be ranked.

Xia Chenan thought about it again and again, and said, "Boss Yang, I can guarantee that Zhejiang TV is willing to contribute money and effort to the planning, arrangement, promotion, government and higher-level approval, finding contestants, production, and post-processing of this program. You can even leave it entirely to us, and we can sign a contract for all of this!"

Damn it, I’m going all out.

This is Xia Chenan's psychological activity at this moment. In order to make Zhejiang Satellite TV reverse the current situation, he is really making a desperate effort.

"Oh?"

Yang Xiao didn't know that Xia Chenan had so many concerns now, and he actually signed a "military order" in front of him.

His original intention was indeed to give the other party some suspense.

Because Xia Chenan came in such a hurry, Yang Xiao was naturally the one who held the initiative.

Moreover, Yang Xiao did not take the initiative to negotiate terms because he also had concerns.

"The Voice of China" is a large-scale music variety show, it's not a show where just any performing team plays some instruments or sings.

Generally speaking, companies that buy this kind of copyright will consider producing the program themselves, and after the program is completely completed, they will sell it to TV stations.

However, this music variety show, including the artists, photography team, and all the staff and props, is too many, too large, and too complicated.

Moreover, like the first season of "The Voice of China" in the previous life, there were no auditions at all.

The program crew sent dozens of teams to various parts of the country to find people.

This includes but is not limited to bars, performance halls, top students majoring in music from large music schools, and even community art troupes.

There are more than 400 employees involved in the production.

To be honest, Wanhetianyi does not have the ability to produce this music variety show at the moment.

However, Yang Xiao didn't dare to show how weak his foundation was.

The outside world thinks that Wanhe Tianyi is a company with great wealth and strength.

But what he was waiting for was Xia Chenan to take the initiative to bring up this topic.

"Boss Xia, your offer makes me a little tempted. I know that Zhejiang Satellite TV is powerful."

Yang Xiao frowned and thought deeply. After a while, he looked at Fan Jun and said, "Mr. Fan, what do you think?"

"Mr. Yang, to be honest, I personally don't have a very good impression of Mango TV. I think the programs they put out are frivolous. Although the Super Girl and Super Boy competitions in the past few years were very successful, I still think they are not up to standard. On the contrary, I personally prefer Zhejiang Satellite TV. Maybe they can produce a program that is no less than the foreign "Voice of Holland"."

Xia Chenan was delighted when he saw Fan Jun speaking for him: "Boss Yang, Boss Fan, please trust Zhejiang Satellite TV."

Yang Xiao looked embarrassed at first, then he suddenly made up his mind:
"How about this, I don't want you to go back empty-handed, so I agree that this program will be co-organized with your Zhejiang Satellite TV.

As for the production, to be honest, we at Wanhe Tianyi really have no experience in producing such a large-scale music variety show. So, as you said, this program will mainly be led by Zhejiang Satellite TV, and our people will just help out."

(End of this chapter)