Chapter 62 Ten Years of Disadvantages

Seeing that Fan Wubing and Old Chen were discussing her salary issues in a verbal battle, the little girl couldn't help but say to Fan Wubing with some anxiety, "Hey, don't fight, okay? I'm here to practice and didn't say I had to get paid?"

Seeing that Fan Wubing looked very serious, she naturally couldn't figure out whether the argument between Fan Wubing and Lao Chen was true or not. If she could not gain a foothold in CCTV because of this, she would be amused and crying.

Old Chen immediately said to Fan Wubing, "Look, look, my little niece doesn't care, why are you worried?"

Fan Wubing looked at Zi Qi and said with a little regret, "Silly humans, don't you know that doing this will encourage the rampant trends and evil spirits?" Then he said with a stern face to Old Chen, "Deputy Director Chen, I clearly express my strong contempt for the stingy behavior of the CCTV management led by you. Doing this will only make CCTV's infamous continue to rise. One day, you will suffer the consequences! Don't say that I have not reminded you at that time!"

Fan Wubing's words were for reasons, not aimless.

CCTV had only nine channels in the past two thousand years, and there were 570 hosts at that time. By 2006, it had expanded to fifteen channels, and the number of hosts decreased to 346. There were more than 200 announcers and hosts who left CCTV for various reasons. They all abandoned CCTV one after another at the peak of their personal careers and made a new future.

The self-discipline initiative issued by the CCTV Announcer and Host Business Steering Committee to the society said that we are so small and insignificant that we are leaving the CCTV collective and this stage. However, this proposal did not stop the front-line hosts from leaving CCTV. From Yang Lan in the early days to He Jiong, Xu Gehui, Zhao Lin and Huang Jianxiang in the later days, more and more CCTV big names have found their own way out and abandoned the golden rice bowl in the eyes of others.

The large-scale departure of hosts has caused a serious shortage of hosts on CCTV variety shows for a period of time, especially female hosts, which has completely caused a shortage of people. There are few star hosts. In addition to Bi Fujian from "The Avenue of Stars", Zhu Jun from "Art Life", and Li Yong from "Lucky 52", they are in their respective brand columns, Dong Qing seems to be the female hosts of CCTV big and small evening parties. Hosts of non-variety shows are often brought to make guest appearances. The lack of staff has caused these hosts to operate overloaded. Not to mention whether the quality of the program can be guaranteed, many people's health has also raised an alarm.

Of course, the reasons for each person leaving CCTV are different. For example, Cao Ying was a temporary worker before leaving CCTV, which gave her room to take advantage of. Not only did she shoot movies, TV series, and advertisements, she also played guest appearances in many major art evenings on CCTV, and suddenly became the female host with the highest appearance rate on CCTV. She wanted to film and host on CCTV, but CCTV stipulated that the host was not allowed to film and film commercials. Cao Ying finally chose to leave CCTV, believing that this was to release herself in a free state.

After graduating from Beijing Radio Institute, Zhao Lin was directly assigned to work at CCTV. She was the only host who was officially assigned to CCTV that year. In the program "Life", her fresh and natural hosting style was well received. A year later, she was named the most popular economic program host among the audience. Perhaps because she realized that this position was hard-won, Zhao Lin politely declined to star in Zhao Baogang's "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" which made many people famous in the future. Until she was a host for five years, she took the initiative to find Zhao Baogang and decided to give up her job at CCTV. She admitted that her departure was related to her enthusiasm for work. Interest was the first priority. One day she lost interest in hosting, and leaving was a natural thing. Although the host looked glorious, it was not. Zhao Lin, who fell in love with acting, admitted that she was unwilling to go back to CCTV.

Lao Chen naturally expected that CCTV, which unified the media industry in ten years, would become a rebellious one. Whether it was a formal or a temporary worker, as long as he had achieved some success, he would go to the arms of others without hesitation, and even had no time to review his famous place.

Therefore, after hearing Fan Wubing's words, Old Chen said disbelief, "How is this possible?! The treatment in the stage is already very good. Do you think there is a stage that is easier to realize the host's dream in addition to us?"

Fan Wubing shrugged and said, "Don't you don't believe me. CCTV is the only one now, but it's only a matter of time before the opening of the media market. There will be measures within ten years. At that time, competitors will be everywhere. If you still maintain this kind of iron rooster style, hum, be careful that even the pillars that support the scene will be poached!"

"Who dares to poach our people?! Why can we poach our people?!" Old Chen shook his head, disagreed with Fan Wubing's words. He felt that this kid was too unauthorized. In order to pick up girls and please the little girl in front of him, he would not hesitate to exclaim to him. It was really bad!

"You are the inertial thinking of monopolizing the industry-" Fan Wubing creaked and bit a piece of chicken nugget, saying to Lao Chen with some disdain, "Don't believe it, when you are in a hurry in the future."

If someone told Lao Chen that CCTV would not support him in the future, Lao Chen would definitely not believe it, but Fan Wubing is not an ordinary person! A person like him who can only be named as a genius, who would just say a word, would have to let Lao Chen figure it out for a long time. So Lao Chen touched his chin and pondered for a while and asked, "Is there really something wrong with our system in Taiwan?"

After hearing Deputy Director Chen’s question about Fan Wubing, Ziqi felt that the two of them seemed to be really discussing the issue, rather than just quarreling about whether they have a salary and how much they should get.

Is the boy in front of me really the same age as me? Zi Qi couldn't help but look at Fan Wubing secretly and found that the big boy's eyes were not very vivid, but the demeanor that inadvertently revealed from his every move was not like an ordinary boy of sixteen years old.

Ziqi hosted many CCTV children's programs, and there are age groups ranging from kindergarten to high school, but the impressions brought to her by all kinds of young people seem to be less intense than the feeling the boy in front of her gives her.

Fan Wubing sat there quietly, talking loudly or laughing softly, which always made Lao Chen feel busy. In Ziqi's eyes, the responses brought were very different.

"In a word, your station is that they are too mortal, second, the treatment is too low, third, there are too many nepotisms, fourth, the work of the new and old is not effective, fifth, there are too many temporary workers, sixth, the leaders like to make unspoken rules, I won't say anything else, so I won't tell you, I'll demonize you all." Fan Wubing slowly criticized Lao Chen with his fingers. Every time he said one, he would hold a piece of chicken bone on the table and count it, and it was exactly six.

"If you don't say it, don't say it, you've said it a lot. As you say, it seems like we're just a bunch of black here." Old Chen used his chopsticks to sweep six chicken bones into the trash can next to him and said with a wry smile. However, he thought Fan Wubing's points were well said, but it was not that easy to solve.

First of all, CCTV is a state media, so it is certain that it can be overly responsible. As an official news release unit, if the host is full of words running the train, what credibility can he have? And there is also an image problem. CCTV must first act as a trustworthy official media, and secondly, it can only consider entertainment activities.

As for the problem of too low salaries, there is no doubt that Lao Chen feels that as the deputy director, he wants to eat some boxed lunch every day, not to mention the busy hosts and ordinary staff who are less well-off than hosts.

Unlike many local TV stations, CCTV prohibits hosts from going out to participate in various commercial performances or taking commercial advertisements, and does not allow filming of films and TV series. Some people also offer millions to invite hosts to shoot commercial advertisements, and the hosts are willing to share their share with CCTV, but it fails because CCTV insists that hosts are not allowed to shoot commercial advertisements.

For example, on weekends, many evening parties are keen to invite CCTV hosts to host, but CCTV strictly stipulates that they are not allowed to participate in commercial performances, which cuts off the host's financial path. For celebrity hosts, it seems unlikely to resist temptation and remain unmoved, so it is inevitable to be restless. If CCTV's own benefits are good, it can also make up for the losses caused by these restrictions. However, in fact, CCTV's benefits have always been very low. Considering the loss of talents and the needs of the market, CCTV later implemented a system of rewarding the best and punishing the bad, such as evaluating the year.

For activities such as hosts of the top ten excellent columns, these hosts can receive special allowances ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 yuan per month. With the usual salary bonus, clothing fees and other comprehensive income distributed on the station, the average annual income is more than 100,000 yuan. However, from the perspective of commercial TV stations or other film and television advertisements, this number is relatively small for celebrity hosts. For example, the monthly salary of Phoenix TV's front-line hosts is as high as HK$50,000 and HK$1 million. With other subsidies, it is not a problem to have an income of more than HK$50,000 to HK$1 million a year, and the host can also earn extra money part-time outside.

Therefore, it is also based on facts that CCTV's salary is too low. What's more, CCTV's salary is far from meeting the later standards, and everyone only has a monthly income of 1,000 yuan.

There is nothing to say about the issue of too many nepotism. After all, there are still many positions in CCTV that can make a living. Among the thousands of employees, many of them are idle. People with a way to do a contact work and logistics work, and they can also get the same salary. They are much more comfortable than those in front of the stage. If you use your relationships to attract business or something in private, you can also receive some red envelopes.

The problem of the alternation of new and old is also an important reason for the slow development of CCTV. While Taiwan’s major in other places has vigorously promoted reforms and boldly launched new people to cater to the audio-visual needs of new and new humans, CCTV is basically still a few old faces, lacking fresh blood to replenish them. Occasionally, there are a few new people, who are temporary hosts like Ziqi, and they are also children’s programs. If it weren’t for the hosts of children’s programs growing up, CCTV would have saved even this.

It was not until many years later that CCTV hosts broke out and CCTV encountered an embarrassing situation where no one was available that they seriously reflected on themselves and launched a popular column like challenging hosts, and widely absorbed outstanding young talents from all over the world, which alleviated this unfavorable situation.

As for the issues of temporary workers and unspoken rules, Fan Wubing was too lazy to talk about it. This matter could not be avoided anywhere. With CCTV's current monopoly thinking that has been the only one in the world, the accumulated problems are unimaginable, especially in the process of gradually pushing media units to marketization, what they gained is not only progress, but also a lot of trouble.

"I said Mr. Fan, you can't give me some constructive opinions? If CCTV doesn't do it well, your income will also be affected, right? Please don't criticize me with a lively expression, okay?" Old Chen couldn't stand Fan Wubing's ridicule. He knew that since this kid had said so many things, there must be a solution, so he asked.

Ziqi also looked at Fan Wubing and thought to herself that Uncle Chen valued this young man so much. Could it be that he is really different?

Fan Wubing was very cunning. At this moment, he didn't forget to give in to others' gratitude. He pointed at Ziqi and said to Lao Chen, "I have a solution. I have to make up for the salary of the girl during this period according to the standards of a formal employee. I will teach you a good person, otherwise I will not be able to talk."
Chapter completed!