TVB to Undergo Executive Changes, Deputy Director Tsang Sing-ming Steps Down
TVB executive Tsang Sing-ming (曾醒明) announced on June 21st that he will be stepping down as TVB’s Deputy Director of External Affairs on June 30th. He will instead become a consultant for TVB, effective on July 1st. He will be officially leaving TVB on December 31, 2016.
Tsang said he received this notification from TVB two months ago. “It’s time for the new to replace the old,” he said. “My coworkers and I have many things to hand over. This is the company’s arrangement.” Asking if he would consider to leave even if TVB didn’t ask him to, Tsang said, “I’ve been thinking about stepping down for a while. It’s just a matter of when.”
Philip Chan (陳家揚), TVB’s Assistant Director of Production, will also be stepping down and transition to a consultant.
On the other hand, TVB executives Felix To (杜之克) and Desmond Chan (陳樹鴻) will be promoted to Deputy General Managers. Keith Yuen (袁志偉), Catherine Tsang (曾勵珍), Virginia Lok (樂易玲), Sandy Yu (余詠珊), Tse Wai-kwong (謝偉光), Tam Shek-yeung (譚錫揚), and more will be promoted to Assistant General Managers.
TVB Group’s CEO Mark Lee (李寶安) told Oriental Daily that the personnel changes within TVB came about after reevaluating each executives’ strengths and their areas of work. They believe that the reorganization of personnel will be positive contributions to the leadership of TVB chairman, Charles Chan (陳國強).
Source: Oriental Daily, HK01
This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.
How ironic – the ones who are doing horrible jobs are getting promotions while the ones who actually contribute (i.e.: Tsang Sing Ming, who has been the ‘face’ of TVB for 42 years and has taken countless ‘beatings’ for them; also Peter Au and Philip Chan, both of whom actually make sense when they open their mouths to speak on behalf of TVB) are essentially ‘forced’ to retire. Way to go, TVB – with such leadership in place, you will be successful for sure (not!). Hey, but at least we now know that TVB treats their execs the same way they treat their artists – like crap!
By the way, with Tsang Sing Ming gone, I wonder who is going to be TVB’s ‘spokesperson’ now – hope to God it’s not going to be that idiot Mark Lee…but then again, he probably thinks speaking to the public is beneath him…
@llwy12 Totally agree with you. I think it is all Charles Chan’s (TVB Chairman) idea ……………… to get rid of the old gangs (since Mona Fong’s time), and to promote his “knights” so that his people will give him 110+% obedience from now on.
@orchid123 Well, to be honest, hard to say whether it’s Charles Chan or not…most of the execs being promoted WERE actually from Mona Fong’s era (except for maybe Sandy Yu), including CEO Mark Lee, who is pretty much the one in power right now. I remember back when Charles Chan took over TVB, he had said in an interview that he would not get involved in TVB’s day to day operations and would pretty much just sit in his office and let his people take care of things. Now of course, this could’ve changed back when Mona Fong officially stepped down and Charles Chan became chairman, but I have a feeling he is nowhere near as involved with TVB’s operations as Mona Fong and her husband Run Run Shaw were.
Either way, regardless of whose decision it was, I still have a bad feeling about these management changes. I don’t think it’s lost on anyone who has followed TVB for a long time that the changes they’ve made in the management ranks (including the executive leadership level, such as CEO and chairman positions) the past 7 or 8 years are actually more than they’ve made in prior decades – couple this with the fact that so many experienced producers, scriptwriters, directors, and other behind-the-scenes crew have left one after the other, plus much of the talent pool in terms of artists are gone too, just doesn’t really bode well. And to be honest, what they truly need to change aren’t necessarily management people but their antiquated polices/procedures as well as their mentality and way they operate, etc. If these changes in management will eventually mean changes in the areas that matter, then fine…if not, then it’s really pointless….