Introduced by TVB, thank you

TVB Wireless: Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd., Television Broadcasts.

It was jointly founded by well-known figures such as Li Xiaohe and Run Run Shaw of the Hong Kong Li family and some foreign-funded consortiums. It was officially launched in November 1967. It has a Chinese channel and an English channel. The Chinese channel (Jade Channel) is weekly Broadcasting for 166 hours, the program pays more attention to popularity and entertainment. 1/3 of the self-made programs include news, sports, informative and comprehensive programs, as well as movies and TV series from Hong Kong, Europe, America, Japan, India and other countries, arranged aired in prime time. The English channel (Pearl Channel) broadcasts 104.5 hours a week, focusing more on knowledge and entertainment. The company is divided into 7 departments including the production department and administration department, with 2,000 employees.

TVB has created many commendable records since its establishment. For example, self-made programs account for about 85%, with an average of 5,000 hours of production per year. The company's 14 production studios (Clear Water Bay) are the largest facilities of its kind in Asia and are the world's major supplier of Chinese-language television programs. The company transmits TV programs to more than 40 countries in Asia, Europe, America and Oceania through overseas cable TV and video rental networks~

P.S. Clear Water Bay TV City: located in Clear Water Bay, for Run Run Shaw A venue established by a subsidiary company of the family business for filming TV dramas, including the 11x Video Studio (photo studio), with a total area of ??more than 6,500 square meters. The outdoor locations include Ancient Fashion Street, Minchu Street, Imperial Garden, Reservoir, etc., as well as production Building, administrative building, props warehouse, TV production professional training center as well as restaurants, banks, and clinics. Among them, the No. 1 video studio can accommodate more than 700 live audiences, and large-scale live broadcasts can be held here. The other 10 video studios can be The plot needs to be arranged into different styles of living rooms, bedrooms, study rooms, gardens, balconies, etc. The several hundred meters of ancient fashion street is full of restaurants, inns, official residences, civilian residences, temples, pavilions, towers, archways, etc.

Understanding TVB - Interpretation of the top ten wireless keywords

1. TVB

Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd., commonly known as "TVB", abbreviated as TVB in English. It includes 9 TV stations - terrestrial TV: Jade TV (Cantonese), Pearl TV (English), satellite TV: TVB8 (Mandarin), TVB Galaxy (Mandarin), TVBS (Mandarin), TVBS-G (Mandarin), TVBS- N (Mandarin), TVBS-ASIA (Mandarin), Jade Satellite Channel, Wireless Satellite Channel. The TVB we usually refer to refers to Hong Kong’s Jade Channel.

2. Ratings

The most direct way to measure the success of a TV program is to refer to its ratings. Since October 1991, Hong Kong has set up a personal ratings record system to calculate the average ratings of television programs. The so-called ratings points do not represent the percentage of ratings that most people think, but represent a certain number of viewers. For now, what everyone usually calls one-point ratings represents 65,810 viewers. (TVB dramas generally account for more than 80% of Hong Kong's ratings.) Earlier this year, "Jackie Chan" starring Guo Jinan and Xuan Xuan successfully beat the record of "Little Treasure and Kangxi" with an average rating of 37 points, becoming this The ratings champion for eleven years.

3. Taiwan Celebration

Wireless’s Taiwan Celebration Day is set on November 19 every year, and Wireless has already entered Taiwan Celebration Month before that. During the Taiwan Celebration period, Wireless will release a Taiwan Celebration drama and hold a celebration party on the Taiwan Celebration Day. In 1997, Wireless began to hold Taiwan celebration awards. In recent years, the fixed awards include my favorite actor/actress, my favorite drama/non-drama partner, and my favorite TV character. Of course, this will also be referred to. There are some special awards based on the situation of the year, such as the male/female artist who made great progress last year. In addition, TVB generally divides the year by Taiwan celebration period to determine which year the series will participate in the Taiwan celebration selection. For example, last year's Taiwanese celebration drama "The Negotiator" was released in November. It did not participate in last year's selection, but automatically entered the 2003 selection.

4. Program Tour

During the TVB celebration period, the program tour for the next year will be held. The main function is to provide reference for wireless advertisers and use it for advertising investment. In fact, to put it simply, it is to show a "gesture" to partners and the media. Among the more than a dozen tour films announced every year, there are of course dramas such as last year's "Wesley" and "Midlife", which had already been filmed or were in the process of being filmed at that time. However, most of them have only one shooting plan or no shooting plan at all. This kind of tour film is just a 2-minute short film shot for the program tour. Although it has a certain plot, it is definitely not a trailer for the series. Films and promotional films, such as last year's "Ghost" and so on. Therefore, program tours are often regarded as TVB's "blank check". According to the latest news, TVB's 13 tour films last year, in addition to "Wesley", "Middle Ages" and "Iceman" which were already filmed at that time, this year's "Freestyle" has already been filmed, but it was changed. angle shot. In addition, "Unknown Angel 3D" has planned to start filming in June, but the male lead Chen Hao in the tour film is still filming "Feng Wu Xiang Luo", and it is still unclear whether he can join the film.

5. Salary-Based Artists

Salary-Based Artists are also called full-manager contract artists. As the name implies, TVB is their manager. Salary artists have a basic salary at TVB and a fixed monthly salary. In addition, when filming TVB dramas, they will be paid additionally based on the number of episodes. In addition, TVB, as their manager, will take a commission from any work that the artist takes on. TVB’s artists Louis Koo, Xuan Xuan, Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam, etc. are all paid artists. Last year, Guo Jinan switched from a head contract to a full manager contract. Every year before the Lunar New Year, TVB organizes its all-manager-contracted artists to shoot the official TVB greeting card for that year.

Compared to artists who are paid on a guaranteed basis, artists who are contracted by Bu Tou have external managers and sign contracts with TVB on a per-episode basis, and their remuneration is calculated based on the number of episodes of the drama. Artists invited by Bu Tou include Ouyang Zhenhua, Wu Qihua, Cai Shaofen, Guo Keying, etc. Since there is no basic salary, the single-episode salary of artists contracted by Bu Tou may be slightly higher than that of paid artists of the same level.

6. Producer

In Hong Kong, whether in the film or television circles, producers are very important figures. As for TVB series producers, they are responsible for everything from series planning to actor selection to filming schedule. Wireless has many well-known producers. The more familiar ones include Pan Jiade, Qi Qiyi, Li Tiansheng, Kwong Yesheng, Xiao Xianhui, Zhuang Weijian, Xu Zhengkang, Wang Xinwei, Mei Xiaoqing, etc. In recent years, there are also Huang Weisheng, Zhang Qianwen, Lin Zhihua who have left other positions. (Mainly a writer and director) turned into a producer. Most of TVB's producers have their own relatively fixed style of drama, such as Kwong Yesheng's costume comedies and fashion police dramas, Wang Xinsuo's inspirational dramas, Mei Xiaoqing's light-hearted love sketches, Zhuang Weijian's costume dramas...

Literally understood, "one brother and one sister" certainly refers to Xiaosheng and Huadan, who have the highest status and are ranked number one in TVB. However, in a large organization like Wireless with so many artists, it is really difficult to find the so-called "number one", so "one brother and one sister" has become a general term for the leading niche. In terms of niches, Luo Jialiang's departure, Louis Koo's fading out, the rise of Chen Hao, Guo Jinan, Jiang Hua, and the return of Tao Dayu and Tan Yaowen have all brought some changes to the competition in niches, which has always been dull. As for Hua Dan, which has always been highly competitive, the competition seems to have eased a lot this year. Today, the most common theory remains unchanged. The four great dandies are Xuan Xuan, Cai Shaofen, Chen Huishan, and Kwok Keying. The more and more mentioned six great dandies include Zhang Keyi and Charmaine Sheh.

8. Confrontation

The so-called confrontation refers to the competition for ratings. To put it simply and specifically, TVB and ATV have competing TV programs. This phenomenon was relatively common in the past few years. For example, in order to suppress the good momentum of ATV's "Across the World" at that time, TVB temporarily transferred its main drama "Criminal Investigation Files IV" to compete; TVB's drama series was a flop, and TVB adjusted its program time to compete with the variety show "Prize Doorman". In recent years, due to the continuous decline of ATV drama series, the so-called "confrontation" phenomenon has become much less common than before. Of course, it can be used as a counterpoint to the series, which to a certain extent shows TVB's confidence and emphasis on the series, but it will also cause some "harm" to the ratings of the series. After all, if ATV has double-digit ratings, it can be blamed, while if TVB has less than 30 ratings, it means a failure.

9. The bottom of the warehouse

The bottom of the warehouse is also called the bottom of the box. It refers to TVB dramas that have been released overseas for a long time but have never been broadcast in Hong Kong. Generally, the problems with this kind of drama are that the plot is simple, the cast is weak, or the actors in the drama have contract issues. TVB's current inventory includes "The Art of Marriage", "Fairy Tales in the Marketplace", "The Fat Woman's Tricks with Her Wife", "Notes in Red", "Catch a Thief", "Reincarnation" and so on. Of course, there are still projects that have been released from the warehouse one day. For example, "The Emperor's Search for the Dragon" at the beginning of the year was shelved for more than a year before it was broadcast in Hong Kong, but it achieved an average rating of 31, which can be regarded as "shattering" for everyone.

10. Outsourced programs

Outsourced programs are naturally movies purchased from TVB. In addition to enriching wireless film sources, it also plays an important role in ensuring wireless viewing. Therefore, TVB has secured the broadcasting rights of the relatively promising "My Fair Princess III" and "Meteor Garden II", so that the strategy of "ATV using outsourced dramas to threaten TVB ratings" can be "dissolved invisibly". Of course, since they are not self-produced dramas, outsourced dramas are often broadcast on the third line or used as counter dramas. For example, during last year's World Cup, "Young Zhang Sanfeng" and "Young Boy Bao Qingtian II" were transferred to prepare for the World Cup. Therefore, there is also a saying that TVB treats outsourced dramas as "cannon fodder." In addition, outsourced dramas are often re-edited by TVB for various purposes. The most typical example is last year's "The Monkey King". The series originally had 40 episodes, but TVB felt that the plot was too slow, so it cut the series into 30 episodes. When the series was aired, the ratings were very good, so TVB added 5 more episodes, making it the final 35-episode TVB version.

TVB is a Hong Kong TV station that almost monopolizes the Hong Kong TV industry. It is much more influential than the comparable ATV in terms of scale and lineup. It has many contracted artists and also has its own training classes. Almost all of the Hong Kong TV drama actors we are familiar with are TVB entertainers, or have been.

TVB holds a grand Taiwan celebration event every year, and all its artists will come out to celebrate TVB’s birthday

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