In 1988, Li Jiacheng's and Huang, Rong Yiren's CITIC, and the British-owned Dadong Telecommunications Bureau jointly established the Asia Satellite Company, which is the first regional commercial satellite operation organization in Asia. In 1990, it launched the Asia-1 satellite for signal transmission services such as television, radio, telecommunications, and communications.

The Asia-1 satellite has opened a new chapter in the commercial operation of satellites in Asia. It is nominally a commercial company, but behind it are two major powers in China and Britain, as well as the local forces of Hong Kong.

In his previous life, in 991, Li Jiacheng's son Li Zekai established a satellite TV company and used the Asia-1 satellite to transmit signals to more than 50 countries or regions, and had more than 53 million users.

It is worth mentioning that the satellite TV channel signal is not encrypted and is free to watch, so profitable can only be achieved by advertising. It is different from the paid satellite TV channel under Snow Media.

In 1993, Li Zekai resold the satellite TV company to media tycoon Murdoch, making billions of Hong Kong dollars. Within two years, he made three or four times the profit, which made many people praise Li Zekai as a "little superman" and as powerful as his father.

After Murdoch acquired the satellite TV company, he established Star TV. Star TV has multiple channels, which can influence more than 50 countries in Asia, with a population of nearly 300 million, and a daily audience of more than 100 million.

However, although Star TV is so prosperous, its profitability is not good. It is in a state of long-term losses. It was finally sold to Mainland Shanghi Radio and Television in 2010.

This is the basic context of the development of satellite TV in Hong Kong in previous lives.

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However, in this life, because Li Jiacheng and other British merchants were suppressed by Xia Tian and suffered considerable losses, they were not as arrogant as in the previous life and became king.

Li Zekai didn't get much help from his father Li Jiacheng, so he didn't get started with the satellite TV company. Now it's all cheaper in summer.

Xia Tian advised her younger sister Xia Xue to establish Snow Satellite TV Company in Xinggang, and she discussed the implementation with various countries and regions.

It is easier to talk about other countries and regions, such as Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc., but it is difficult for mainland China to talk about.

The reason is that the mainland has always been strict in the management of overseas media. Not only TV, but also radio, newspapers, magazines, etc., are not allowed to enter the mainland at will. Therefore, it is really difficult for Snow Channel to settle in the mainland.

Finally, after continuous efforts, the mainland allowed Snow satellite TV channels to be placed in a few areas, such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hainan and other special zones, as well as star-rated hotels receiving more foreign guests. In addition, there are cable TV channels in several places that can cooperate with Snow satellite TV to broadcast its programs to a limited extent.

Snow Satellite TV is not unlimited to enter these areas. First, it can only play entertainment programs, but not produce programs; secondly, the signal must be delayed by 30 seconds, and any sensitive information is entitled to be blocked in the mainland.

However, even so, being able to enter the mainland is a great thing for Snow Satellite TV. Because the population of two cities in Guangzhou alone exceeds 30 million, six times that of Hong Kong, and it is equivalent to the number of all Chinese in Southeast Asia, so it is worth it.

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After the establishment of Snow Satellite TV Company, it has four channels, namely the movie channel, the variety show channel, the news channel and the animation channel.

The content of the program comes from Tianxia Entertainment, Asian TV, CBS, Tianfeng Records, CBS, CBS, etc.

Among them, the news channel is only broadcast in countries and regions such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, while the mainland only broadcasts movie channels, variety shows channels and animation channels.

The movie channel plays Hong Kong films, American blockbusters and some movies from Taiwan, and is played in Chinese. The variety show channel mainly plays variety shows produced by Asian TV and Taiwan's Tianxia Entertainment Branch, and is broadcasted with original sound and subtitles; the animation channel mainly plays cartoons from Midea.

If the profit prospects of these four channels are ideal, Snow Satellite TV will also try to add new channels, such as channels in other languages, etc.

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Just as Snow Satellite TV is actively expanding its territory, Hong Kong and Xiatian are also working hard to promote Mandarin within Tianxia Entertainment.

In the past six months, the mainland has gradually relaxed the production ban on film and television dramas, and welcomed private capital to invest in these fields. The time for the three places of Central China, Hong Kong and Taiwan to co-produce TV series in summer has finally come.

If Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China want to make TV series together, the most important issue is language.

Taiwan and the Mainland speak basically both Mandarin. Although some characters are pronounced differently and have slightly different tones, there is no problem with normal communication.

Only Hong Kong speaks Cantonese, and its pronunciation is too different from Mandarin, so there is no way to communicate normally, which hinders the cooperation between the three places. In the past life, the reason why Hong Kong actors were not as good as Taiwanese actors in the mainland was that language problems were the biggest obstacle. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, people in Hong Kong must learn Mandarin.

But to be honest, the promotion of Mandarin within Tianxia Entertainment has not made rapid progress.

The Mandarin training class held in summer has only seven or eight people who come to class every time the class starts. Most of the people ignore it and don’t take this matter seriously at all.

In their opinion, the mainland is poor and broken, and Taiwan is also very backward, while the Hong Kong entertainment industry is prosperous and prosperous, so they are not scarce to go to Taiwan at all. If the mainland develops, they naturally have no motivation to learn Mandarin.

Seeing this, Xia Tian had to apply strong medicine.

"Master Zhou, this Mandarin exam will be held in the company every month from now on. Those who pass the exam will arrange their work. Those who fail the exam will not arrange them." Xia Tian ordered.

"So severe?! Then the company's losses will be huge." Zhou Liangshuyi questioned.

For example, props, costumes, makeup, venues, etc., if work is suspended, you can still find someone to replace it. But if the first and second-tier actors and directors fail to speak Mandarin, they have to suspend the arrangement of work, and the company's losses will be huge. A movie will be suspended for one day, and the losses may be hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars.

"Let's do this, third- and fourth-tier actors and staff must be strictly required." Xia Tian added, "As for first- and second-tier actors and directors, just like this, give priority to actors who are good in Mandarin and directors on stage. I don't believe that this will not cure them."
Chapter completed!