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United States33584 Posts
Sources: http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/view.daily?idx=20027
http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/view.daily?idx=20026
To sum it up shortly, CJ bought a controlling share of stock in OnMedia for around $400 million dollars. Now, to explain why this all may or may not matter.
CJ we all know, is the corporate sponsor of the CJ Entus team. They are a huge conglomerate that has their hands in a ridiculous amount of things from food products to movie theaters, and one of their other side businesses is cable television.
OnMedia owns a bunch of cable channels in Korea, the relevant one here being OnGameNet. The bigger society angle of this is that CJ now has a near monopoly on cable television channels in Korea, so make what you will of that.
In any case, CJ now owns two pro-game teams through as a side effect. Does this mean anything will happen? I have no idea. It's definite fun to think about a Sparkyz + Entus merger, but they are two tiny entities in a gigantic company. Personally, I'd bet on the status quo.
The other factor here is that CJ has some sort of control over GomTV, which may ease the relationship between OGN and GomTV as competitors. Gom has been quiet as of late, but we'll see if anything changes in the future.
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Hope this is good news for GOM! CJ sent three players to Blizzcon and seems to be more aware of GOM's impact on foreigners so this might be good. One can always hope....
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Omfg think of the after merger CJ/Sparkz lineup:
SAVIOR
LETA
MOVIE
EFFORT
IRIS
SKYHIGH
YELLOWARNC
ETC ETC
OMFG MY BRAIN IS SPLODING
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This sounds very interesting indeed.
The GomTV thing made me immediately think of the Gyungnam STX cup, with the longer offseason we could very well be seeing a CJ tournament broadcast on either GomTV (which would immediately get them tons of "official" viewers both in Korea and overseas) or OGN (back to the streams...), possibly featuring B-team players and such.
As to the CJ enterprise owning both Entus and Sparkys I wouldn't worry about it, Hite sponsoring sparkys doesn't mean that they own them but the teams looks to me like it still will belong to Hite rather than CJ.
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Keep your goddamn Sparkyz the hell away from my Entus!
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doubleupgradeobbies!
Australia1238 Posts
isn't sparky's owned by hite rather than ongamenet now though?
Or was it like some kind of joint sponsorship?
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United States33584 Posts
Hite has zero ownership over the team, they are purely a sponsor (OGN sold the name for money)
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Well I am more worried about conflict of interests... since CJ owns OGN, and OGN airs SPL... then if CJ Entus loses badly it's bad image on the company... but CJ controls the TV... censorship much?
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51574 Posts
knowing korea without a doubt it will just be status quo.
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arent sparkyz under hite now?
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51574 Posts
On December 24 2009 13:51 Waxangel wrote:
Hite has zero ownership over the team, they are purely a sponsor (OGN sold the name for money)
this. i really hate the misinterpretation everyone has that hite owns Sparkyz now. everything is still ran by OnGameNet.
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I dunno, the way things are going now, CJ doesn't seem to need any help with effort and movie surging, but having practice partners like yarnc and leta would probably make them even better.
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MrHoon
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On December 24 2009 13:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Keep your goddamn Sparkyz the hell away from my Entus!
this.
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wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past?
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CA10829 Posts
On December 24 2009 13:54 Kenpachi wrote:
wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past?
it wouldn't be quite accurate to say that. you could say that GO was one of the poorest teams though.
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MrHoon
10183 Posts
On December 24 2009 13:54 Kenpachi wrote:
wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past?
History lesson every TL member should read :D
And yes. They were the poorest team out of all the teams
if Suma Go had money to support all their players long ago
KT/SKT mandrid would not exist
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i don't know how i would feel if they merged teams. Wouldn't that upset how proleague would work with a super imba team? And i don't think anything will happen. I bet cj sponsors 100000000000 things so they won't bother with the starcraft team.
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51574 Posts
merging will never happen
shady 'trades' will possibly arise though.
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United States33584 Posts
On December 24 2009 14:01 GTR wrote:
merging will never happen
shady 'trades' will possibly arise though.
good one! this is a deceptively bland story, it needs rumor mill to keep it interesting.
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51574 Posts
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first.
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