Chapter 71: You Really Think I’m a Pushover!?
At the celebratory lunch, everyone was in good spirits.
Zhang Ye had not felt this relaxed in a long time. Because he was due for a live broadcast soon, he did not drink any alcohol, but instead only ate the food.
Ring, ring, ring. Zhao Guozhou received a phone call. Shortly after he answered, he suddenly did not look too good. He hung up and then took a look at everyone, saying, “I will head back first; there’s a short meeting. You guys head back early after you are done. I’ve settled the bill already; enjoy yourselves.”
“Ah?”
“Why are you leaving now?”
“Then we should head back, too.”
“That’s right; we are almost done anyway.”
Everyone left, one after the other. They decided that they might as well return to the unit together.
Zhang Ye was also wondering about Director Zhao’s expression. But he couldn’t care about it for now. After he went back, he sat in front of his computer to think about the story for his broadcast. Which should he choose? “The Wizard of Oz” had finished, and it had been received quite well, too. Should he choose another serialized fairy tale, again?
His colleagues were also treating it as if it were any other day and were chatting during the lunch break.
But at this time, an alarming piece of news had reached them!
It was from an old editor from the Literature Channel, “Teacher Zhang Ye, your ‘Old and Young Story Club’ has been replaced. The notice has just been passed down by the station. Jia Yan’s ‘Soaring Youth’ will be taking over. You don’t need to do your broadcasting today… Little Jia’s pre-recorded program will be broadcasted instead!”
“What?” Big Sis Zhou got anxious.
Auntie Sun asked, “Why? Why so?”
Wang Xiaomei was also stunned, “With the listenership ratings of ‘Old and Young Story Club’, why would it be taken off the air?”
The old editor explained, “The management said that ‘Soaring Youth’ was a planned program and would certainly be implemented. Because ‘Old and Young Story Club’’s listenership ratings soared during the weekend, the station plans to move Little Zhang’s program to a weekend broadcast. It will be shortened from 7 days to 2 days, but the program duration will be increased. If that plan is executed, then ‘Weekend Laughing Forest’ will be axed, but all this is still being worked out and is not fixed, so Little Zhang temporarily does not have a segment for now. At least on the notice, ‘Old and Young Story Club’ has been taken off-air.”