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Cruiser0929
Profile Joined December 2019
516 Posts
December 12 2019 15:43 GMT
#141
On December 12 2019 23:46 BlueStar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2019 22:54 WCG2003 wrote:
On December 12 2019 18:52 GTR wrote:
On December 11 2019 13:32 WCG2003 wrote:
do you remember how many people on average used to watch proleague or msl/osl on television back in 2003-2011? wondering how it compares to asl ksl


not the korean guy who's supposed to be responding, but viewer count comparisons need to be taken with a grain of salt because while the golden era was all on cable television, asl/ksl is much more easily accessible through iptv/online streaming platforms so this skews/inflates numbers a lot.
but do you have any idea what the tv ratings were? even if it's not an apples to apples comparison i'm still curious what they were.


The advertising companies look into the TV audience in a completely different manner than what they see in the Internet broadcasts viewer count.
The way viewers got engaged is vastly different.

TV is mainstream.
Twitch/afreeca are underground.

The big companies are tempted to invest in TV ads hundreds of times more than in internet broadcasts. Not comparable at all.

On the internet, you have control of what you see - if you don't like something you just close the tab and move to the next thing.
On the TV you don't have control. Sure you can switch the channel, but the number of channels is finite - the chance of getting back to the show and continue watching it after the ads (for example) is incomparable.



He's right.
WCG2003
Profile Joined November 2019
10 Posts
December 12 2019 16:47 GMT
#142
On December 12 2019 23:46 BlueStar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2019 22:54 WCG2003 wrote:
On December 12 2019 18:52 GTR wrote:
On December 11 2019 13:32 WCG2003 wrote:
do you remember how many people on average used to watch proleague or msl/osl on television back in 2003-2011? wondering how it compares to asl ksl


not the korean guy who's supposed to be responding, but viewer count comparisons need to be taken with a grain of salt because while the golden era was all on cable television, asl/ksl is much more easily accessible through iptv/online streaming platforms so this skews/inflates numbers a lot.
but do you have any idea what the tv ratings were? even if it's not an apples to apples comparison i'm still curious what they were.


The advertising companies look into the TV audience in a completely different manner than what they see in the Internet broadcasts viewer count.
The way viewers got engaged is vastly different.

TV is mainstream.
Twitch/afreeca are underground.

The big companies are tempted to invest in TV ads hundreds of times more than in internet broadcasts. Not comparable at all.

On the internet, you have control of what you see - if you don't like something you just close the tab and move to the next thing.
On the TV you don't have control. Sure you can switch the channel, but the number of channels is finite - the chance of getting back to the show and continue watching it after the ads (for example) is incomparable.
im not trying to be rude here but i dont care how they compare to one another, I just want to know what the TV ratings were.
XenOsky
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Chile2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-14 07:42:30
December 14 2019 07:42 GMT
#143
On December 13 2019 01:47 WCG2003 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2019 23:46 BlueStar wrote:
On December 12 2019 22:54 WCG2003 wrote:
On December 12 2019 18:52 GTR wrote:
On December 11 2019 13:32 WCG2003 wrote:
do you remember how many people on average used to watch proleague or msl/osl on television back in 2003-2011? wondering how it compares to asl ksl


not the korean guy who's supposed to be responding, but viewer count comparisons need to be taken with a grain of salt because while the golden era was all on cable television, asl/ksl is much more easily accessible through iptv/online streaming platforms so this skews/inflates numbers a lot.
but do you have any idea what the tv ratings were? even if it's not an apples to apples comparison i'm still curious what they were.


The advertising companies look into the TV audience in a completely different manner than what they see in the Internet broadcasts viewer count.
The way viewers got engaged is vastly different.

TV is mainstream.
Twitch/afreeca are underground.

The big companies are tempted to invest in TV ads hundreds of times more than in internet broadcasts. Not comparable at all.

On the internet, you have control of what you see - if you don't like something you just close the tab and move to the next thing.
On the TV you don't have control. Sure you can switch the channel, but the number of channels is finite - the chance of getting back to the show and continue watching it after the ads (for example) is incomparable.
im not trying to be rude here but i dont care how they compare to one another, I just want to know what the TV ratings were.



This
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Cruiser0929
Profile Joined December 2019
516 Posts
December 16 2019 03:28 GMT
#144
On December 13 2019 01:47 WCG2003 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2019 23:46 BlueStar wrote:
On December 12 2019 22:54 WCG2003 wrote:
On December 12 2019 18:52 GTR wrote:
On December 11 2019 13:32 WCG2003 wrote:
do you remember how many people on average used to watch proleague or msl/osl on television back in 2003-2011? wondering how it compares to asl ksl


not the korean guy who's supposed to be responding, but viewer count comparisons need to be taken with a grain of salt because while the golden era was all on cable television, asl/ksl is much more easily accessible through iptv/online streaming platforms so this skews/inflates numbers a lot.
but do you have any idea what the tv ratings were? even if it's not an apples to apples comparison i'm still curious what they were.


The advertising companies look into the TV audience in a completely different manner than what they see in the Internet broadcasts viewer count.
The way viewers got engaged is vastly different.

TV is mainstream.
Twitch/afreeca are underground.

The big companies are tempted to invest in TV ads hundreds of times more than in internet broadcasts. Not comparable at all.

On the internet, you have control of what you see - if you don't like something you just close the tab and move to the next thing.
On the TV you don't have control. Sure you can switch the channel, but the number of channels is finite - the chance of getting back to the show and continue watching it after the ads (for example) is incomparable.
im not trying to be rude here but i dont care how they compare to one another, I just want to know what the TV ratings were.



TV ratings averaged about 1.2~1.5%.

The figure, however, was the ratings of cable broadcasts, not terrestrial ones.
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10382 Posts
December 16 2019 04:10 GMT
#145
On December 16 2019 12:28 Cruiser0929 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2019 01:47 WCG2003 wrote:
On December 12 2019 23:46 BlueStar wrote:
On December 12 2019 22:54 WCG2003 wrote:
On December 12 2019 18:52 GTR wrote:
On December 11 2019 13:32 WCG2003 wrote:
do you remember how many people on average used to watch proleague or msl/osl on television back in 2003-2011? wondering how it compares to asl ksl


not the korean guy who's supposed to be responding, but viewer count comparisons need to be taken with a grain of salt because while the golden era was all on cable television, asl/ksl is much more easily accessible through iptv/online streaming platforms so this skews/inflates numbers a lot.
but do you have any idea what the tv ratings were? even if it's not an apples to apples comparison i'm still curious what they were.


The advertising companies look into the TV audience in a completely different manner than what they see in the Internet broadcasts viewer count.
The way viewers got engaged is vastly different.

TV is mainstream.
Twitch/afreeca are underground.

The big companies are tempted to invest in TV ads hundreds of times more than in internet broadcasts. Not comparable at all.

On the internet, you have control of what you see - if you don't like something you just close the tab and move to the next thing.
On the TV you don't have control. Sure you can switch the channel, but the number of channels is finite - the chance of getting back to the show and continue watching it after the ads (for example) is incomparable.
im not trying to be rude here but i dont care how they compare to one another, I just want to know what the TV ratings were.



TV ratings averaged about 1.2~1.5%.

The figure, however, was the ratings of cable broadcasts, not terrestrial ones.

Do you mean terrestrial vs. satellite or vs. internet broadcast or? Sorry, I know that English is a difficult language, but some clarification would be nice
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
LaStScan
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)1289 Posts
December 16 2019 05:36 GMT
#146
I did some googling and navering to understand words he meant. This is what I came up with.

Satellite broadcasting would be the case when people need to broadcast all over the world at once like Fifa World Cup, Olympic, any other big sports event.

Terrestrial broadcasting is an another word for public broadcasting that anyone can have access to watch on TV.
EX) SBS, KBS, MBC, EBS and so on.

I was able to watch ASL S6 S7 on TV channel somewhere like 'SPOTV Games' and probably because Afreeca signed the contract with KT Giga Internet w/e they have done with.

I personally watched nOOB taking out Mong on Sylphid on TV, not internet broadcasting.

Back to the question Jealous asked, I think he's talking about public broadcasting.
Trying my best for ASL, ASTL
ggsimida
Profile Joined August 2015
1156 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-16 06:37:54
December 16 2019 06:36 GMT
#147
i guess the numbers must have been really big back in the day for the public broadcasters to deem starcraft worthy of being shown on public channels. and this is like way back in the early 2000s, pretty progressive comparatively to most other developed countries that couldn't be bothered to care about esports even till now.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51693 Posts
December 16 2019 06:44 GMT
#148
BW was never on KBS/SBS/MBC... only time was when SBS did their tournament (boxers first ever tournament win).

to be honest though literally everyone in the metro areas had cable though, it was only the sticks that didn't have access to ogn/MBC. Also iirc there were a larger majority of cable providers that only offered mbcgame and not ogn and vice versa/both fwiw
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ggsimida
Profile Joined August 2015
1156 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-16 06:58:11
December 16 2019 06:56 GMT
#149
i can't see BW getting so popular in KR back in the day if its mostly tied down by heavy cable subscription fees...do urbanites with cable connection get to see the game channels for free or do their public tv packages complementarily include those channels already (like MBC +MBCgame)..
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51693 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-16 07:05:04
December 16 2019 07:04 GMT
#150
i think it was primarily the cable connections the households had. whenever families got internet, most of them came with a cable subscription (or was very cheap to add on) so why the hell not get both.
Commentator
BlueStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Bulgaria1176 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-16 09:15:24
December 16 2019 09:14 GMT
#151
The TV was revolutionized in the past two decades if you compare 2000 to 2020...
TV providers had vastly different subscriptions and services overall then what it is today. Internet broadcasting was not available at all, there wasn't youtube even...

This whole thing is not like comparing apples to oranges,
it's like comparing elephants to apples.
Leader of the Bulgarian National SCBW/SC2 team and team pSi.SCBW/SC2
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10382 Posts
December 16 2019 17:34 GMT
#152
On December 16 2019 14:36 LaStScan wrote:
I did some googling and navering to understand words he meant. This is what I came up with.

Satellite broadcasting would be the case when people need to broadcast all over the world at once like Fifa World Cup, Olympic, any other big sports event.

Terrestrial broadcasting is an another word for public broadcasting that anyone can have access to watch on TV.
EX) SBS, KBS, MBC, EBS and so on.

I was able to watch ASL S6 S7 on TV channel somewhere like 'SPOTV Games' and probably because Afreeca signed the contract with KT Giga Internet w/e they have done with.

I personally watched nOOB taking out Mong on Sylphid on TV, not internet broadcasting.

Back to the question Jealous asked, I think he's talking about public broadcasting.

Thanks Scan! This makes a lot of sense.
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
December 16 2019 20:38 GMT
#153
So I heard that NaDa works out and has a pretty good body. I think I saw a picture on here but I cant find it.
I tried googling image "nada's body" but I couldn't find it. I want to see pictures of his nice body, where can I find it?
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10382 Posts
December 16 2019 20:40 GMT
#154
On December 17 2019 05:38 ninazerg wrote:
So I heard that NaDa works out and has a pretty good body. I think I saw a picture on here but I cant find it.
I tried googling image "nada's body" but I couldn't find it. I want to see pictures of his nice body, where can I find it?

lmao

https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/100673-nadas-body
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
LaStScan
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)1289 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-17 00:49:43
December 17 2019 00:40 GMT
#155
On December 16 2019 15:44 GTR wrote:
BW was never on KBS/SBS/MBC... only time was when SBS did their tournament (boxers first ever tournament win).

to be honest though literally everyone in the metro areas had cable though, it was only the sticks that didn't have access to ogn/MBC. Also iirc there were a larger majority of cable providers that only offered mbcgame and not ogn and vice versa/both fwiw


I might as well need to understand broadcasting system more if my words are wrong. But when i looked up, every tv channel is 지상파(land line connection broadcasting). They dont broadcast through satellite for sure. Other tv channels like SPOTV, JTBC, Sky Petpark, and more, arent they also categorized as 지상파?

That's how i understood.

1st edit: okay, im wrong all about this. KBS1 KBS2 EBS MBC SBS are 지상파 tv channels.
Now im questioning my self "what about other 200 of tv channels?" What are they categorized as? Hmm.
Trying my best for ASL, ASTL
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51693 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-17 03:02:22
December 17 2019 03:00 GMT
#156
On December 17 2019 09:40 LaStScan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 16 2019 15:44 GTR wrote:
BW was never on KBS/SBS/MBC... only time was when SBS did their tournament (boxers first ever tournament win).

to be honest though literally everyone in the metro areas had cable though, it was only the sticks that didn't have access to ogn/MBC. Also iirc there were a larger majority of cable providers that only offered mbcgame and not ogn and vice versa/both fwiw


I might as well need to understand broadcasting system more if my words are wrong. But when i looked up, every tv channel is 지상파(land line connection broadcasting). They dont broadcast through satellite for sure. Other tv channels like SPOTV, JTBC, Sky Petpark, and more, arent they also categorized as 지상파?

That's how i understood.

1st edit: okay, im wrong all about this. KBS1 KBS2 EBS MBC SBS are 지상파 tv channels.
Now im questioning my self "what about other 200 of tv channels?" What are they categorized as? Hmm.


Lets compare it to how it is in the USA:

Terrestial/Free-to-air - ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS
Cable - ESPN, FX, Comedy Central, MTV, HBO, Showtime

In that case, Korea would be like;
Terrestial/Free-to-air - KBS/KBS2, MBC, SBS, EBS
Cable - OGN, JTBC, SPOTV

With how subscription packages are done these days and technological advances, you can pretty much access cable channels through IPTV and vice versa. Back in the day, I remember MBCgame was the only 'esports' channel that was accessible through satellite in Korea (Skylife) which is why it had a wider outreach than OnGameNet.

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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
December 17 2019 22:23 GMT
#157
Thanks for the QA and welcome to the community. I know you touched on this, but there hasn't been any further info on when Jaedong is leaving for the military. Is that right?
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10382 Posts
December 18 2019 00:48 GMT
#158
Has Best ever explained why his macro is so good or famous?

I once joked that he was chained to a TV playing oov vs. Reach on Mercury until he could max at record time but I want to know the real story.

Second question: What is the best way to get in touch with a progamer for a foreign fan?
"The right to vote is only the oar of the slaveship, I wanna be free." -- бум бум сучка!
LaStScan
Profile Joined May 2011
Korea (South)1289 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-18 03:35:43
December 18 2019 03:33 GMT
#159
I'm hearing ByuL(Kang, Taewan) bet his money on gambling website and got caught so he'll be excluded from sponbbang list. This is sad. I heard he became a civil servant for the police department. That's gonna be a harm.
Trying my best for ASL, ASTL
ggsimida
Profile Joined August 2015
1156 Posts
December 18 2019 04:57 GMT
#160
On December 18 2019 12:33 LaStScan wrote:
I'm hearing ByuL(Kang, Taewan) bet his money on gambling website and got caught so he'll be excluded from sponbbang list. This is sad. I heard he became a civil servant for the police department. That's gonna be a harm.


where is the source website of that announcement? don't see it from the main sponbbang.com page and byul's name is still recorded there
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