Chapter 104 - The Crisis for the Television Station’s Public Service Advertisement! (1/2)

The next day.

The clouds covered the sky.

Today, Zhang Ye was not permitted to drive, so he had to leave his car in the parking lot. He took the subway alone to work. There were quite a lot of people there, so he failed to board the first time. He was late by a few minutes by the time he reached the office.

“Morning.”

“Teacher Zhang, you are here?”

“Teacher Little Zhang, good morning.”

Hou Ge and Xiao Lu greeted him. Yesterday, when Zhang Ye first came, they had called him by his name or “Little Zhang”, but now after knowing the awesomeness of Zhang Ye, they all changed their form of salutation. It changed from “Little Zhang” to “Teacher Little Zhang”. They were very polite. Be it an inst.i.tution, commercial business, private business or the entertainment industry, it was all the same. As long as you had sufficient experience and great ability, with your fame, no one would dare to disrespect you.

Xiao Lu took the initiative to pour a cup of water for Zhang Ye, “Here you go.”

“Thank you. I’ll do it myself.” Zhang Ye did not want to impose.

Hou Di smiled. “Right, Teacher Zhang. Just now, Brother Hu came over, but didn’t find you. Maybe the higher ups have a meeting that Brother Hu wants you to join.”

Zhang Ye immediately said, “Aye, why was I late? Where’s Teacher Hu?”

“Brother Hu’s office is here, too.” Hou Ge chuckled, “He will be here in awhile.”

Just after he finished speaking, Hu Fei walked into the office.

“Teacher Little Zhang, follow me for a while.” Hu Fei smiled. “The channel has a meeting. Since I don’t have an a.s.sistant, go with me, too. Hur Hur. I’m not treating you as an a.s.sistant, and roping you in is not just to make you be in the front stage; your literary qualities can always s.h.i.+ne backstage.”

Zhang Ye asked curiously, “Teacher Hu, what sort of meeting is it?”

“A public service advertis.e.m.e.nt. Let’s go. You’ll know when we arrive.” Hu Fei led him upstairs. While they were in the elevator, he explained, “The higher-ups sent a policy down last month, and it can be considered a media policy. They wanted our Arts Channel to produce an electricity-saving public service advertis.e.m.e.nt. But we have not finished it after a month. Actually, it’s not that we haven’t done it, it’s just that the higher-ups did not pa.s.s it. Seeing that tomorrow is the final deadline, our channel’s Leader is extremely anxious. So he gathered everyone to help in planning and discussing the details of the advertis.e.m.e.nt.”

Zhang Ye was enlightened.

A small meeting room upstairs.

There was a long table, with not more than twenty seats.

By the time that Zhang Ye and Hu Fei arrived, the room was nearly full. A few people-in-charge and employees from the various segment teams from the Arts Channel had filled the room. Zhang Ye saw a few familiar faces here. There was a youth and a woman, who were his interviewers from the previous day.

Seeing Zhang Ye, these people only gave him a glance.

“Old Hu, Hur Hur. You are the slowest.” a middle-aged man greeted him.

“Isn’t the Leader not here yet? It’s fine, as long as we aren’t late. Old w.a.n.g, this is our segment team’s Teacher Zhang Ye. Please take care of him in the future.” Hu Fei seemed familiar with him.

The middle-aged man said in amus.e.m.e.nt, “He’s your man. I can’t take care of him, even if I wanted to. However, I have long heard of Little Zhang’s name. What is his position now?”

Hu Fei said, “Guest host. I might also get Little Zhang to do some of the doc.u.mentation work for backstage work. There’s no other way, since my segment isn’t as large as others. With few people, everyone has more responsibilities.”

The woman, who had interviewed Zhang Ye, smiled. “It’s also quite suitable for Little Zhang to do doc.u.mentation work. Few in the channel can match him in their literary skills. A capable person has many responsibilities.”

Everyone sat down.

Hu Fei introduced people to Zhang Ye in whispers.

Zhang Ye knew that the middle-aged man’s name was w.a.n.g Meng. He was an overall Director-in-charge of the trending music segment team. The woman who had interviewed him was Jiang Fen, an overall Director-in-charge of entertainment and literature news reporting.

At this moment, about 5-6 people came in from inside. One of them was the head of the channel, w.a.n.g Shuixin.

Director w.a.n.g did not look happy today. He walked straight to the seat of power. Without saying anything first, he drank all the tea in his cup. He looked like he had just scolded someone, so his throat was dry. After finis.h.i.+ng it, he put down the cup and said, “Alright, let’s begin. I believe that everyone knows what the details of today’s meeting are. We need to fix the public service advertis.e.m.e.nt, and it has to be done by today. We need to finish its production by this afternoon in order to submit it to the higher-ups for approval. After the approval, tomorrow will be the final deadline, where it will be broadcast on television. We don’t have much time left!”

The people who came in after Director w.a.n.g were probably employees that did advertis.e.m.e.nts for the television station.

An employee handed over a draft, or it could be precisely said to be a writeup, “These were the two ideas that we came up with last night during overall time.”

Another employee distributed copies to the others.