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EVER 2009 OSL viewership shows why OSL is awesome - Page 2

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Sharp-eYe
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada642 Posts
January 29 2010 05:26 GMT
#21
On January 29 2010 13:43 Disregard wrote:
The viewership is relatively low to be honest. I actually prefer MSL commentary and excitement over the epicness of the OSL, but ZvZ finals and shitty work by MBC has to screw it over.

they need to put the MSL commentators in the OSL.
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Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
January 29 2010 05:36 GMT
#22
"- On Korean forums, approximately 3800 posts were made during the games"

I find it funny that just Teamliquid.net's live report thread of the finals had more posts than all the Korean forums had combined, in every thread.
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We Are Here
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Australia1810 Posts
January 29 2010 05:42 GMT
#23
On January 29 2010 14:25 Sharp-eYe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2010 14:06 Megalisk wrote:
On January 29 2010 13:40 iamho wrote:
500k viewers total? that seems really bad


500k viewers watching a 10 year old computer game being played is in no way "bad".

im not sure but thats as close as the numbers are here for hockey right or baskeyball?
yeah id like to know how well it compares with other sports; because, quite frankly, i have no idea if thats a good number xD

okay i just did a quick wiki search for the AFL finals television viewers. each year got roughly 3ish million, so 500k dont seem like a lot =[
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Waffles
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Romania605 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-29 05:46:17
January 29 2010 05:45 GMT
#24
500,000 is definitely a very rounded number. there were at least 10,000 people on TL streams which dont count to this number. does OGN require cable? kinda like ESPN? or is it public TV
BloodDrunK
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bangladesh2767 Posts
January 29 2010 05:46 GMT
#25
OGN clearly showed MBC how to hold a final.dare i not speak of that moment again.
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Sharp-eYe
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada642 Posts
January 29 2010 05:48 GMT
#26
On January 29 2010 14:36 Shikyo wrote:
"- On Korean forums, approximately 3800 posts were made during the games"

I find it funny that just Teamliquid.net's live report thread of the finals had more posts than all the Korean forums had combined, in every thread.

because they were all talking about it real life. we dont have the luxury
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Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10264 Posts
January 29 2010 05:48 GMT
#27
I have a feeling that MBC will post similar statistics, but with one difference:

Viewer satisfaction.
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baubo
Profile Joined September 2008
China3370 Posts
January 29 2010 06:06 GMT
#28
Is there a ratings meter in Korea? Absolute numbers don't really mean much. Comparisons with other sports shows, scripted shows, reality tv, variety shows are more indicative of success.

I will say that esports has to be some of the cheapest shows ever produced. The players make so little comparable to TV personalities. The coaches probably make salaryman money. They have the same booth for just about all the matches except for the finals. They don't exactly need much to sustain it's viability.
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exp
Profile Joined December 2008
New Zealand91 Posts
January 29 2010 11:07 GMT
#29
OGN are awesome indeed.

Now they just need a stable service for foreigners. Could probably make a little money with a reasonably priced premium service. Then again it probably wouldn't be worthwhile.
MrHoon *
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
10183 Posts
January 29 2010 11:11 GMT
#30
nielson scale is a terrible way to record viewership ratings in Korea
especially when most 'basic cable' in kyeongkido doesn't have OGN (they have MBCgame instead)
Not to mention there are still ALOT of people without cable here


PS: The highest rated cable show in Korea last year (excluding news etc) had a nielson scale rating of 5%.
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FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6172 Posts
January 29 2010 11:15 GMT
#31
On January 29 2010 14:25 Sharp-eYe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2010 14:06 Megalisk wrote:
On January 29 2010 13:40 iamho wrote:
500k viewers total? that seems really bad


500k viewers watching a 10 year old computer game being played is in no way "bad".

im not sure but thats as close as the numbers are here for hockey right or baskeyball?

Habs have probably a million viewer when they are good and up to 2 millions when in the series.
But you can't compare sports and e-sports viewer.
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thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
January 29 2010 11:23 GMT
#32
MBC could have crushed those numbers (they still might have) but unfortunately they're not in the business of competence.
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Velr
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Switzerland10700 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-29 11:24:52
January 29 2010 11:23 GMT
#33
Now they just need to learn how to fix their brackets instead of this random bullshit.


500'000 is not really that much? How many people live in Korea?
meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
January 29 2010 11:28 GMT
#34
The OSL is just so awesome. My favorite tournament to watch.
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Foucault
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Sweden2826 Posts
January 29 2010 11:45 GMT
#35
Those stats don't sound good at all to me. 1,7% of the young males? I expected it to be WAY higher. Half a million viewers, what? That's not much. 8000 people attending an OSL finals is probably a new low?
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thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-29 11:48:57
January 29 2010 11:46 GMT
#36
On January 29 2010 20:23 Velr wrote:
Now they just need to learn how to fix their brackets instead of this random bullshit.


500'000 is not really that much? How many people live in Korea?


About 50 million.

About 1% watched the OSL finals.

I don't know about thing about TV viewership, except that the world cup finals was watched by 33% of the population of the world. 2 billion people or something.

Well it must mean something because it did pick up a shiny new sponsor, Korean Air. The MSL might continue to be sponsored by random mmorpgs.
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Wings
Profile Joined January 2010
United States999 Posts
January 29 2010 12:21 GMT
#37
On January 29 2010 20:45 Foucault wrote:
Those stats don't sound good at all to me. 1,7% of the young males? I expected it to be WAY higher. Half a million viewers, what? That's not much. 8000 people attending an OSL finals is probably a new low?


Think about it this way. Korea's overall population is about 50 million. 0.5 / 50 = about 1% of the entire population watched the OSL finals.

The NBA finals (i think in '06) had a viewership of 13 million. The USA has 300 million people. 13/300 = about 4% of the entire population watched the NBA finals.

Now, compare percentages: 1% vs 4%.

So, a decade-old computer game battle between two mega nerds attracts about 1/4 of what the NBA finals attracts.

I'D SAY THAT'S PRETTY DAMN FREAKING GOOD
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konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66161 Posts
January 29 2010 12:24 GMT
#38
Well there are a few million people out there without cable...
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Alethios
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
New Zealand2765 Posts
January 29 2010 12:28 GMT
#39
I wonder if TL livestreams etc are factored in. I dont think they would be.

Then of course there is the fact that a fair number of people probably get together for the finals. So 500,000 people might well just be 500,000 screens tuned in, while the true number of viewers would be much higher.
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konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66161 Posts
January 29 2010 12:35 GMT
#40
Lol livestreams aren't counted of course.
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