Local broadcasting companies have structural limitations themselves in improving quality and quantity of programs, due to the narrow advertizing markets that restrain sufficient financial supports. Against this backdrop, the emerging private and satel...
Local broadcasting companies have structural limitations themselves in improving quality and quantity of programs, due to the narrow advertizing markets that restrain sufficient financial supports. Against this backdrop, the emerging private and satellite broadcasting companies are driving them in the spot.
This study is intended to provide basic data that can secure efficient program-production alternative through the analysis of co-production situations among local broadcasting companies. This effort will play an important part in suggesting a way-out to local broadcasting companies at risk mentioned earlier.
To that end, this article established study objects as following :
1. What's the situation of co-production in Korea's local broadcasting companies, in particular, among MBC subsidiaries.
2. What's the characteristics of co-production among MBC subsidiaries.
3. What are alternative to activating co-production among local broadcasting companies.
This paper analyzed co-production programs from the spring of 1999 to one of 2000 by four subsidiaries in Honam province, that is, Kwangju, Mokpo, Yosu, and Chunju stations. As the results, it's clear that co-production has several positive effects.
First, Co-production enables local broadcasting companies to encourage mutual understanding and inter-regional exchanges through sharing human and material resources one another.
Second, Co-production makes quality programs possible on the basis of more extensive advertizing markets and financial chip-in.
Third, Co-production brings out favorable competitions among the staff in each broadcasting company.
Fourth, Co-production increases production ratio even with fewer production staff.
In spite of this strength, co-production is not full-down up until now. This situation lies in three factors : poor and insufficient advertizing markets, the short of policy and efforts by subsidiaries as well.
Thus, following alternatives are suggested. First, the unit of advertizement price and advertizement price on audience ratio should be rearranged, in order to create more extensive audience. Futhermore, on terms of policy support, more close ties among local subsidiaries are needed. Otherwise, satellite broadcasting and digital trends will aggravate managerial stakes. Also, support policy such as desirable evaluation on co-production should follow. Last but not least, local subsidiaries need to give up their egotism, pursuing more active cooperation themselves. In addition, co-production committee for co-production and co-purchase will improve the current production conditions on various strategies terms.
Domestic broadcasting markets are confronted with fierce competition along with the introduction of private and satellite broadcasting companies. Therefore, local subsidiaries should reinforce cooperation each other for their survival and supplying more quality programs than local private broadcasting companies are doing.