EPTIEG vs MBC / OGN
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Aphelion
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muramasa
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NeoIllusions
United States37500 Posts
OGN/MBC have once again started a fight with IEG. In their recent meeting, IEG demanded a large sum of money which MBC and OGN both thought were ridiculous. As a result, the companies were unable to come to a agreement once again, and the ties were broken. Hearing this news, the Managers of each team except for MBC and OGN started a boycott of the MSL prelims, and left the stadium during commercial break. The future of Proleague, Starleague, and Brood War Progaming in general has just been put in jeopardy. -Live2Win @ MSL Prelim Live thread | ||
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muramasa
Canada1299 Posts
On March 16 2007 06:23 Kennigit wrote: IEG is demanding .75 million per year per station, play 40% of the revenue from all VOD Downloads OGN says that they'll be loosing money if they agreed to that and couldn't possibly. All the teams except for hero's and sparkyz walked out at a commercial break. Saw it happen "live" on sc2...pretty bad ass .- cue dos to Inferno in the sc2 chat for relaying those figures. Also from the MSL prelims thread. | ||
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maybenexttime
Poland5555 Posts
Now OGN and MBC can't even make their own team league as IEG will simply ask KeSPA to make progaming teams boycott it... WTF | ||
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sweatpants
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maybenexttime
Poland5555 Posts
edit: KeSPA had to do something with this boycott as it's made of roteams' sponsors represents. Why else would progaming teams do this the day OGN and MBC rejected this stupid IEG offer? | ||
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SuperJongMan
Jamaica11586 Posts
I'd like to hear more from him now. What's the point without the TV stations. | ||
Corinthos
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iNFeRnO
Canada254 Posts
It says they still want to want to work with OGN/MBC and they will have another meeting by this weekend. They also say they have a hidden "big card" (?) for the meeting. Also, tomorrow's Shinhan Master's games will remain unaffected, and will go as scheduled. | ||
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Corinthos
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bine
United States2352 Posts
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iNFeRnO
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SuperJongMan
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Aphelion
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SK.Testie
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KizZBG
u gotta skate8152 Posts
On March 16 2007 08:52 MYM.Testie wrote: Who the hell is IEG? Yeah, I don't get it either. A lot of things should be explained here. For example KeSPA stands for Korean e-Sports Players Association which is etc etc. | ||
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sweatpants
United States940 Posts
The ONLY thing that could've gone wrong here was the introduction of IEG into the scene, and it DID. As I expected, they're just a bullshit middle-man company wanting a slice of the pie. But I didn't expect them to be this ruthless this early on. Do I remember correctly that KeSPA sold exclusive broadcasting rights to IEG, and now broadcasting companies will have to pay IEG to show Starcraft? If that's the case, the blame lands squarely on KeSPA's plate for making such a rash move without negotiating to the best of their ability with MBC and OGN. Is there anything legally that can be done for KeSPA to get the rights back?? | ||
vGl-CoW
Belgium8305 Posts
On March 16 2007 08:56 KizZBG wrote: Yeah, I don't get it either. A lot of things should be explained here. For example KeSPA stands for Korean e-Sports Players Association which is etc etc. You can find a lot of info in this news post by uhjoo: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=50116 and (to a lesser extent) to this later news post by infinity: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=50648 This is basically the third part in the story, and it looks like IEG is causing a lot of problems by being a greedy new player in the field. | ||
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rS.NonY
United States286 Posts
On March 16 2007 08:52 MYM.Testie wrote: Who the hell is IEG? IEG is a sports marketing company that bought the rights for broadcasting Proleague from KeSPA. OGN/MBC used to be able to broadcast Proleague without having to pay for the rights, so OGN/MBC are now having to deal with some significant fees that they've never had to before. Of course, either OGN or MBC could have bought the broadcasting rights directly from KeSPA, but neither of them bid. IEG was the sole bidder and now OGN/MBC have to go through IEG in order to broadcast those games. | ||
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