The purpose of this present study is to study MCs characteristics of respectively different TV program genres to gratification. On the basis of survey to the university students, the following questions are derived to show MCs effects. The following g...
The purpose of this present study is to study MCs characteristics of respectively different TV program genres to gratification. On the basis of survey to the university students, the following questions are derived to show MCs effects. The following genres were chosen as analysis materials: News(KBS 9 News, MBC News Desk, SBS 8 News), Discussion (KBS Jong-Sup Kils Issue Discussion, MBC Woon-Young Chungs 100-minute Discussion, EBS Live Discussion) and Talk Show(KBS Se-Won Suhs Show, SBS Hye-Soo Kims Plus You, SBS Hong-Ryul Lees Show) The questions are as follows:
1. What are the primary factors to the university students program gratifications?
2. What and how are the primary factors to the university students gratifications about MC?
3. What and how is the correlation to the university students gratifications between MC and program?
For method, the questionnaire responded by the participants were analyzed. The participants were recruited from the three universities in Seoul, Northern Chungchung province and Pusan.
This study showed following conclusions.
1. The talk shows gratification is the highest in three genres to the university students.
2. Comparing to the gratification about MC, News anchors are the highest.
3. In choosing the programs, the content is the most important in news program, MC in discussion program and producer/director in talk show.
4. In the correlation between MC and program, news program is the least, discussion program is more correlated and talk show is the most.
As with all empirical research, there exist some potential limitations.
First, the relatively restrictive sampling is a limitation of this study, that is there is no consider demographic factors.
Common method variance is also a limitation of this study. Since all of the data were collected from self-reports, there are many errors and discreditable responds. This result is applied to just university students, Seoul Northern Chungchung province Pusan, and the age of the 20s.