Chapter 2299 - You Are Lu Man? (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Because of Han Zhuoling and Shi Xiaoya, although the complete version was especially long, the viewership ratings on the online platform were actually three times that of the televised version!
Many major video streaming platforms also contacted Dong Hua Station, wanting to purchase the copyrights to air Survivor.
From the start, when Survivor was about to premiere, because the guest list had been kept secret all along, these video streaming platforms had felt that the guest list must be quite impressive.
Every time Lu Dongliu played the keeping-it-secret trick, it would always give the audience a surprise.
So a few major domestic online video streaming platforms came to contact Dong Hua Station.
But Dong Hua Station insisted on retaining exclusive broadcasting rights for themselves. They did not say that they were not going to sell the rights, but they just quoted an extremely high price.
The other major streaming platforms all felt that it was too expensive. After quite a few rounds of fruitless bargaining, they decided not to purchase the rights anymore.
One platform’s CEO just said angrily, “Haha! I just won’t buy it! I want to see how popular this show of theirs could get!”
This “how popular” was naturally meant to be condescending.
Yet who knew, the moment the show aired, it would become a huge hit.
After the show became a huge hit, those streaming platforms wanted to buy it again, but Dong Hua Station simply refused to sell it no matter what.
And now, when the complete online version once again reached a new peak of popularity, the video streaming platforms once again felt interested and contacted Dong Hua Station to express their intentions to buy the broadcasting rights of Survivor.
During the first time, Dong Hua Station indeed quoted an exorbitant price, but it was indeed because they did not think of selling the rights at all.
Now, they quoted an exorbitant price again, and it was even higher than the first time around.
But this time, Dong Hua Station really had full confidence. They could sell the rights, it was not a roundabout rejection. But they had to sell at this price; any less they would not sell at all.
And the price they quoted was not even the price for the full season, but per episode.
A video streaming platform could not have only a few episodes of a full season of a show.
If they bought everything, it would really be a painful cost to swallow.
But they had this confidence now. Who asked them to be so famous?
You won’t buy it?
Then that’s great, Dong Hua Station would not lose out either.
It just so happened that the complete version of the special episode let Dong Hua Station’s online platform also surge to a new high.