Chapter 359 ATV changes ownership

Author: Bai Lian Zi Ren

Chapter 359 ATV changes ownership

After Huang Xizhao said goodbye to Bai Zirui yesterday, he immediately returned to the company and convened all the TV station directors for a closed-door meeting. He informed everyone that a major equity transaction had occurred in the company and that the company had a new boss.

Huang Xizhao also conveyed Bai Zirui's promise that all operations of the TV station would remain unchanged. With him as the backbone, the worries of other backbones of the TV station have also been reduced a bit.

After going to work today, all departments held internal meetings as soon as possible. The supervisors conveyed the news that the company had a new boss. Although it caused a lot of discussion among the TV station employees, everyone's mentality was relatively peaceful.

, just a little more gossip and curiosity about the new boss.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Bai Zirui arrived at the headquarters of Li's TV Station on time to attend the shareholders' meeting. The other shareholders of the TV station had been notified in advance and all attended the shareholders' meeting. There were three issues on the agenda of the meeting. The first was to change the name of the station.

The original Li's TV station was changed to Asia Television, and the English station logo was also changed from the previous "RTV" to "ATV".

The second topic was the appointment of new board members. Huang Xizhao and Zhou Liangshuyi were recommended by Bai Zirui to serve as the chairman and vice chairman of the board of directors respectively, and were appointed as executive directors together with Xu Jingli.

There are also two non-executive directors, namely Xu Jiankui and Michael Kadoorie. Xu Shixun did not continue to serve as a director of the new board of directors, but recommended his nephew Xu Jinkui to serve.

Non-executive directors only have the right to make recommendations but not final voting or execution rights, so they have much smaller powers and responsibilities than executive directors. Their main responsibility is to supervise and inspect executive directors and company executives.

The third topic of the shareholders' meeting is to expand capital. Bai Zirui has communicated with several other shareholders in advance. In addition to the Xu family's approval, the Kadoorie family, Wing On Kwok and Jardine Matheson all expressed dissent.

The votes controlled by Bai Zirui were enough to allow him to ignore the opinions of other shareholders. The final capital expansion scale was set at HK$150 million. The Hui family and the Kadoorie family chose to subscribe in proportion, while the Guo family and Jardine Matheson chose to dilute their equity.

Bai Zirui acquired 61.2% of the equity in Li's Voice and took over 7.5% of the shares owned by Standard Chartered. Including the funds that need to be subscribed after passing the capital expansion proposal, the total amount is as high as 250 million Hong Kong dollars, and Standard Chartered Bank is responsible for providing the full amount.

Credit.

Dingtian Company's recent series of acquisitions consumed a large amount of cash. It was very stressful to come up with such a large sum of money in one go, so Bai Zirui had no choice but to borrow money from the bank.

After the shareholders' meeting, the new chairman of the board of directors, Huang Xizhao, presided over the first board meeting of ATV, appointed Zhou Liangshuyi as the general manager of ATV, and appointed Xu Jingli as the financial director of ATV.

"Lei's TV changed its name to Asia Television, and technology tycoon Bai Sheng changed his career to become a media tycoon!" Shao Yifu sat in the car and browsed today's "Sing Tao Evening News". The news of the change of ownership of Li's TV was published prominently on the headlines.

Mr. Li Xiaohe, the first chairman of the board of directors of TVB TV station, passed away due to a sudden heart attack two years ago. The Li family had no intention of continuing to run the TV station, and the three major shareholders of John State had no intention of taking over, so Shao Yifu took over as the chairman of TVB.

’s new chairman.

In the past few years, Shaw Brothers Pictures has gradually been at a disadvantage in the battle with Golden Harvest. Shao Yifu has long been determined to shift the focus of his career to the television industry. Since he took over as chairman of the TV station, he immediately moved his office location from the film company to the headquarters of TVB

.

In the past two years, Li's TV station has been able to keep pace with TVB in ratings. In addition to its own excellent TV series, it is also related to the change of leadership of TVB station. As the saying goes, once the emperor and the courtier, after Shao Yifu took over the chairmanship of the TV station, he always had to

Make some personnel adjustments within TVB.

He completely took control of TVB through internal rectification of the TV station, but news suddenly came from his competitors that the shares had changed hands. Some people in the company felt that the transfer of the rivals' shares would definitely cause some turmoil, which would give Shao Yifu a chance to breathe.

But Shao Yifu didn't feel the slightest relief. Although Li's TV station looked aggressive in the past, it actually didn't make him feel too much pressure. Because the parent company of Li's TV station couldn't focus its main energy on a Xiangjiang TV station.

The support that Li's TV station can provide is very limited.

But today, less than half a day after the new boss of Li TV took over, he has already made a strong announcement that he will expand capital for the new ATV. The cash flow of 150 million Hong Kong dollars will soon reach the account name of ATV TV station. This will make the company, which was already heavily in debt,

ATV, at least for a year, does not need to worry about funding issues and can easily compete with TVB in the market.

While Shao Yifu was frowning and thinking about countermeasures, Bai Zirui, as the new boss of ATV, was hosting a banquet for all the management of the TV station at Fulinmen Restaurant.

Bai Zirui stood up with a glass in hand, looked around at the quiet crowd, and laughed loudly: "My investment in Asia Television is not a temporary decision made on a whim, nor is it a short-term investment to make a fortune, but a sincere hope.

Run ATV into a century-old store.

First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone for their hard work. At the same time, I sincerely hope that under the chairmanship of Chairman Huang Xizhao and General Manager Zhou Liangshuyi, as well as the sincere cooperation of all colleagues, ATV can become a company that wins the praise of five million Xiangjiang citizens.

Outstanding media!”

After Bai Zirui finished speaking, everyone stood up at the same time, raised their glasses and drank. Then the atmosphere in the banquet gradually became warmer. In addition to several directors of ATV, there were also sitting at the main table the chief screenwriter Liang Liren and the deputy general manager.

Lin Xuefeng, Financial Director Xu Jingli and others.

The atmosphere at the wine table was very relaxed. Zhou Liang Shuyi told an interesting story about her rival, Boss Shaw, and said: "When Shaw Brothers was filming "Feng Feifei", there was a scene in the film where a martial artist eats fried steamed buns. The stage manager signed a purchase order.

Ask someone to take it to Uncle Shao Liu for approval. It says, 'Purchase 100 fried steamed buns, spend 20 yuan.'

As soon as Shao Liushu saw the approval note, he realized something was wrong. The steamed buns in the Shaw Brothers studio cafeteria only sold for 1 cent each. How could it cost 20 yuan? So he wrote "no approval" and typed it back.

As a result, after all the actors put on their makeup, they waited and waited and couldn't wait for the props steamed buns, so they had to give up and start filming later. The crew was delayed for a day and lost more than 10,000 yuan in vain. Afterwards, it was found out that the people in the cafeteria that day were

The chef is on temporary leave and needs to go shopping outside!"

Everyone burst into laughter after hearing this. Shao Yifu and another real estate tycoon Wang Dehui are two of the famous "thrifty kings" among Hong Kong's richest people. Wang Dehui is a member of the Jockey Club and the owner of several racehorses.

Once, accompanied by a jockey, Wang Dehui went to the Beas River Club to ride horses. He asked his wife Gong Xinru to cut a pair of old jeans into jodhpurs beforehand. This became a big joke throughout Hong Kong and Kowloon. Boss Wang was willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy horses.

, raises horses, but is reluctant to spend dozens of dollars on a pair of jodhpurs.
Chapter completed!