Chapter 494

Chapter 494: New Variety Show.

During the Spring Festivals, many TV shows were very watched.

Everyone was eating and drinking all day long so they had a lot of free time to spend with the elderly and children at home. They naturally also had more time to watch TV.

Those good TV shows, TV series and films would get very good results.

Among them was the ‘Meteor Girls’ Restaurant’.

After three months and ten episodes, the live viewers for the show exceeded 100 million and worked its way toward 200 million.

Who cared if this show had English, Japanes, Korean or other language subtitles? The live viewers alone proved how popular this show was.

The princess also rewarded Chen Huan with 100 million for his role as the planner of this program.

After calculation, ‘Meteor Girls’ Restaurant’ also brought a lot of fame to Chen Huan.

It wasn’t only money as the rewards he received from the Good Lord also allowed him to prosper.

The longevity of variety shows was actually very long.

A good variety show could be popular for a few years and even up to ten years.

Chen Huan felt he needed to produce another good variety show after seeing how much fame ‘Meteor Girls’ Restaurant’ bought him in a year and the Good Lord would continue to reward him with the culminating of fame from it.

As the saying went, things came in double.

Double the happiness was the real fortune.

It wasn’t a necessity but Chen Huan had something he could rely on.

Good Lord rewarded him with a variety show recall but Chen Huan didn’t plan to use it.

He had too many variety shows in his mind already and many of them could be understood by watching the content and how it operated after a few episodes, and then copied.

Some of them were too complicated and Chen Huan certainly couldn’t copy it.

For example, Running Man, it required very clever scene design as well as good coordination and planning.

If Chen Huan wanted to be a running man, he would definitely use a recall from Good Lord.

But competitions like indoor music competitions really didn’t need one.

To be more specific.

‘King of Mask Singer’ didn’t need one.

The format of ‘King of Mask Singer’ was really simple as it was just famous people putting on costumes to hide their identity.

And have the judges and viewers guess and judge their identity by the songs they sing.

Then whether they advanced or was being eliminated would also depend on the votes. Then the singer could also decide whether to unmask himself or leave with the mask on.

The first season of the Chinese version of ‘King Of Mask Singer’ was very rough. For example, although Old Sun covered his top, he wore his favorite and most expensive sneakers so everyone naturally saw it and guessed it.

And the judges were also playing around and weren’t professional at all. They were so confident and didn’t know how to select the candidates at all.

However, ‘King of Masked Singer’ still rose to prominence rapidly even with that many complaints as the rating went to content against the best of ‘Running Man’ and even variety shows such as ‘The Amazing Race’ couldn’t compare to it.

This showed the appeal of ‘King of Masked Singer’.

After coming up with which show, it took Chen Huan three days to write the specific rules and details of it before he began to wonder who the show would be given to.

With his previous two planning of ‘Meteor Girls’ Selection’ and ‘Meteor Girls’ Restaurant’, no one doubted Lu Xiaofeng’s talents in variety shows anymore.

In fact, many TV stations sent messages to Chen Huan in hope to discuss it before the Spring Festival after seeing the popularity of ‘Meteor Girls’ Restaurant’.

Moreover, they even quoted 30 or 50 million to buy off a variety show from Teacher Lu Xiaofeng.

The price of the variety show was even higher than for a TV series.

Because a variety show could be shown for a few months once it was done and as long as it didn’t take a dive in quality, it could be a safe bet for the next few years.

No matter how great the TV series was, could they rebroadcast the same content next year and get the same ratings?

Obviously not.

So this was why the cost for variety shows was that expensive.

TV stations in this world already achieved a large degree of separation between production and broadcasting.

In short, TV stations only took care of broadcasting it.

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It was especially the case for TV series as the TV stations didn’t produce them at all. How much TV series was appropriate? They couldn’t make too few since it would be at loss but they couldn’t bear the cost if it was too much!

But the TV stations were willing to cooperate with the production companies for variety shows as everyone would produce it together and share the copyrights.

Or they just do it themselves and leave those production companies aside.

Those who contacted Chen Huan were naturally planning to buy a variety show idea and produce it themselves.

Those who were only willing to pay, there was no need to guess, they were all second or third rate TV stations.

Chen Huan only sold ‘Princess Returning Pearl’ to Yuzhou TV because he had no other option because if the other first-tier TV stations were willing to let go their conditions about the internet broadcasting time, Chen Huan wouldn’t have chosen Yuzhou TV even if there was less money.

This had nothing to do with perception but strictly about the size of the platform since it would affect the platform.

Just as what the producer of Zhejiang TV Hua Zhongpu said when he called Chen Huan for the New Year’s greeting, if Chu Liuxiang’s ‘Princess Returning Pearl’ was placed on Zhejiang TV, the rating would be 5 percent higher and even maybe reached 40 percent.

So if he had the choice, he wouldn’t hand over ‘King of Masked Singer’ to those second or third tier TV stations.

But this gave another choice.

Give it to a TV station or Shanhai Streaming.

Both had their pros and cons.

The advantage of TV stations was they had a big audience base and TV was the choice of the viewers most of the time.

The advertisers were also usually more willing to invest massively in advertising on TV stations for better effects.

But the disadvantage of TV stations was in a very strong position and they would definitely want more benefits for them if they knew ‘King of Masked Singer’ was good.

Even if there was no hidden and sinister intention or method, TV stations had the ability to make their cooperation feel uncomfortable and awkward in order to achieve their goals.

It didn’t matter how strong Chen Huan was since he was facing a TV station and it was impossible to fight head on against a behemoth that had thousands of people and officials behind them.

The advantage of Shanhai Streaming was the princess would definitely not treat Chen Huan badly under any circumstances.

Moreover, she would give her best to produce ‘King of Masked Singer’, give the best time slot and big budget advertisement to have people watch it.

There were many youngsters on the internet as long as the advertisement area was large, they could attract their enthusiasm to watch the show.

However, Shanhai Streaming wasn’t without disadvantage.

It was in the eyes of many famous singers, it wasn’t a serious platform.

‘King of Masked Singer’ must attract great singers to come, at least second or first rate singers must come or keeping the audience guessing would be meaningless.

So if Shanhai Streaming hosted this show, it would be a question whether those famous singers would be willing to sing in a competition on an online platform.

Do not doubt it, there would be many singers that would refuse it.

If it wasn’t taken care of, it would be hard to get good singers to come even if the princess smashed money on it.

Those Emperors/Empresses or Small Emperors/Empresses, wouldn’t come just for the money.