TVB Blacklisted Raymond Lam?
Raymond Lam (林峯), who released two new songs over the past three months, is currently preparing for his fifth Hong Kong Coliseum concert tour, which runs for three days starting April 29, 2016. Although his plugs have topped radio and download charts all over Hong Kong, the songs failed to impact TVB’s music charts. In fact, Raymond’s promotions received nearly zero coverage from TVB’s news, leading to the rumor that he has been blacklisted.
The 36-year-old singer and actor debuted as a TVB actor in 1999 and pursued a successful acting and singing career under TVB’s management. Fifteen years later in 2014, Raymond decided to end his contract with TVB, and signed with his record label, EEG. Raymond insisted that it was an amicable split.
A few days ago, a Hong Kong gossip magazine reported that TVB had put Raymond in their blacklist, refusing to report anything related to the “Heart Attack” singer. The report claimed that Raymond’s relationship with TVB turned sour when the network refused to give him the TV King award. Raymond was said to be “very adamant” about not renewing his TVB contract, reportedly turning down TVB’s many requests for negotiation.
The magazine then went on to say that Raymond, realizing his mistake, decided to sign with EEG, who has a good relationship with TVB. EEG executive Ng Yu (吳雨), however, reportedly failed to come with an agreement with the network, and Raymond’s existence in TVB was wiped out. TVB refused to report any activities on Raymond’s promotions, declining to interview him as well.
Yesterday, reporters phoned Ng Yu to ask him if the rumors were true. Ng Yu said, “This is all old news,” and denied the blacklisting rumors.
But when asked if Raymond would be getting airtime on TVB soon, Ng Yu said, “He has to line up. TVB has many things to report. They have things they like to talk about more than others, but I honestly don’t know what they like.”
The executive continued to deny bad blood between the two parties and said, “[TVB] is generous. We’ve had great collaborations before and we are always open for another collaboration again. Always.”
But even if the rumor is true, Raymond may not be blacklisted for long. According to a report, TVB has an unwritten rule where former managed artists are not to appear in any TVB program for the two years following his or her departure. The reason for this is to guarantee the interests of current TVB artists.
In regards to these reports, TVB executive Tsang Sing-ming (曾醒明) said in a phone interview, “TVB is in a friendly relationship with EEG and its artists. Raymond Lam is a very popular artist, and TVB will broadcast Raymond Lam when the time is right.”
Source: On.cc
This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.
Raymond lam is a money making machine blacklisting him is plain stupid
Blacklist raymond lam is not Raymond’s lost but is tvb’s lost
Whether or not he deserved the TV King award, the award show is fixed anyway, conveniently heavily promoting Grace Chan, giving her the lead over older actresses who’ve been at TVB longer, then conveniently giving her the Most Improved Actress award even though she’s a terrible actress.
@sas318
Quite right! Every award is a business decision to increase the status of the actors/actresses that TVB want to push up.The only time throughout the years where I thought it gave TVB no advantages was giving tv king to Dayo Wong. Offers zero return. Anthony wong is also zero return but he was so far above everyone else on an acting level it would have been absolute robbery to give it to someone else.
However much RL makes, TVB would not see a penny of it because he is not signed with them. So, why bother to promote him.
@aiya @ivan
Aiya is right. Doesent matter if Raymond is making billions. If anything, with TVB’s monopoly whoever gets blacklisted is missing opportunities to promote themselves in the Hong Kong market.
@jimmyszeto Yes, the blacklist affected him but overall, not much. His income now mostly comes from China market (where his price for movie is 500,000 HKD and series is 1,500,000HKD/eps, his function fee is from 700,000 HKD to 2,000,000 HKD/func and he is well welcomed) and TVB has no hand on that market. In Hongkong, he still has other means to promote himself such as in radios or now he can do interviews with NowTV, Icable, Phoenix and other channels freely.
In TVB, in fact he is not absolutely disappeared. TVB bought 2/3 of his China series to air on TVB after his leave (including Purple hairpin and Doctor & Detective.) His old TVB series has been aired. His song is still aired on JSG (but when it reaches to top, he isnt invited to sing live on JSG). TVB only blocked his appearance on news.
It is why he isnt rushed to solve the problem with TVB.
@aiya Actually the singers still need to sign singing contract to be appeared on TVB music JSG. Hence TVB, if they does agree to contract with LF, will have some money from his appearance.
But TVB must feel angry because in 2 years without TVB, LF earned 0,5 billions HKD to EEG. They lost him and also lost quite a lot of money. In years, he was the one that brought the most money back to TVB. So the blacklist is actually an action in reply to that lost.
Tvb/ shaw bros might have mad on raymond for refusing to act in line walker. This might be the reason he got blacklist
LF is doing just fine without tvb! Who needs more of those sappy series and the same old same old story lines! All this bs about being the “biological son” and they dangle the tv king carrot over him, only to give it to someone else! Why won’t he leave after working his tail off for them all those years. He’s got plenty of other awards! Glad to see him move on! Countdown to his concert and new series soon!
No one is indispensable, tvb has proven it.