Recently it had been rumored TVB wanted to establish their own record company to promote their artists to become singers. The plan has finally confirmed, TVB and Stars Shine have jointly established "Star Dream Entertainment Limited". Stars Shine's chairman and board member Herman Ho has joined in on the partnership, effective October 31, 2013. Herman is also TVB's Non-Drama Production Director Sandy Yu's husband. Now that the two companies have joined forces, you can say they are now a big family. Kay Tse has become "Star Dream" Big Sister. When the other HK record companies heard of this news, they were all shocked, especially TVB's greatest supporter EEG has now become the "mistress". Joey Yung's position is being threatened.
According to sources, Stars Shine's current singers including Kay Tse, Linda Chung, Alfred Hui, Joyce Cheng, Jinny Ng and Hubert Wu will all be transferred to the new company Star Dream. Yesterday reporters contacted Herman Ho and asked if its true he joined TVB to run the new record company? He said: "I'm very happy that TVB decided to collaborate with my record company. Lately we have been actively coming up with big plans, especially promoting our artists. In the near future, we will be announcing the first list of contracted artists." The "Voice of Stars" winners Fred Cheng and Hoffman Cheng will probably be joining the new company as singers too.
Since Herman and his wife Sandy Yu are now managing both the music and variety show departments respectively, it seems like their "whole family is running the show"? Herman feels since he is now part of TVB, of course they must cultivate their artists together. He does not think other record companies will get jealous, especially when facing the "JSG Music Awards". TVB also made it clear that they will implement the open-door policy of public voting, so its more about each individual singer's ability and not whether they have connection with Star Dream or not.
Sandy accepted a telephone interview and expressed the "Star Dream" record company establishment is to produce good music in a serious manner. In the future, there will be even bigger developments in the variety shows and the audience will have more shows to watch. "Star Dream" is a TVB company, does Sandy think this will spark objections from other record companies and think TVB might be biased towards their own people? Sandy said that won't be a problem because the station is going to open up even more in the future, everyone will have to put great effort into it. Next year, JSG is open to all singers from all record companies. This way, the Hong Kong music industry will thrive and get better. She expressed there are hundreds of TVB contracted singers, and she hopes there will be more and more.
"Star Dream" will probably have the biggest impact on TVB's greatest supporter EEG. Because TVB now has a subsidiary company, EEG has turned into a "mistress", aside from Joey Yung and Twins being affected, current EEG singers Raymond Lam and Kevin Cheng may switch over to "Star Dream" once their EEG contract expires.
Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @
AsianEU Forum
