ABSTRACT
A study on the factors affecting the TV-ratings by the program organization of the National Assembly Broadcasting (Focus on cable TV channels from 2007 to 2016)
JIN, HoUn
(Supervisor Choi, SeongJhin)
Dept. of Broadcasting and Communication ...
ABSTRACT
A study on the factors affecting the TV-ratings by the program organization of the National Assembly Broadcasting (Focus on cable TV channels from 2007 to 2016)
JIN, HoUn
(Supervisor Choi, SeongJhin)
Dept. of Broadcasting and Communication Policy
Graduate School of Public Policy and IT
Seoul National University of Science and Technology
National Assembly Television as public channel was opened in order to satisfy the people's right to know about the legislation. To achieve this objective, National Assembly Television as congress channel tried to do a variety of broadcast programming after opening the broadcasting station, but less than 1% of poor results were deduced in terms of TV-ratings.
Accordingly, this study was to analyze the changes of TV-ratings by genre, by month and by time zone according to Broadcast programming for National Assembly Television, changes of TV-ratings in the National Assembly Television by opening the TV channels of comprehensive programming, and changes of TV-ratings by programming the domestic specific events (e.g. Choi Soon-sil Gate, live filibuster). For the analysis period, this study was to analyze it centered on the cable TV channels, as of opening the TV channels of comprehensive programming, for a term of 5 years from 2007 to 2016.
The analysis used the data provided by Nielsen, which is an audience rating agency (collection by people meter method), and the Ariana program, which is an analysis tool for audience rating comparison.
From the result of this research above, it may be summed up as follows.
For the program genre in the National Assembly Television, the broadcasting of proceedings·parliamentary politics was intensively programmed, and it was programmed as sustaining program of legislation·current events·information and independent producing program of culture·educational / documentary. For TV-ratings, the broadcasting program of proceedings was relatively higher than that of legislation·current events·information·culture·education genre, but the rest of genre had a similar level of TV-ratings. This study has found out that the viewing time zone indicated high TV-ratings at 22 and 23 time zones and the main age viewing was analyzed in their 50s or older.
In case of live broadcasting program of proceedings, this study has shown that the live broadcasting of committee like social issues, etc. had high TV-ratings, and outsourcing educational / documentary program at night-time live broadcasting had high TV-ratings. However, it was analyzed that TV-ratings of live sustaining program was not higher than that of broadcasting program of proceedings. Under the National Assembly law, the live broadcasting of proceedings should go on by priority, so the cause of poor TV-ratings was because the sustaining program was not broadcasted often at the appointed organizational time. In case of programming the special live broadcasting of committee due to the nation's major incident·accident, TV-ratings increased at all ages. But in other cases, it was analyzed as the TV-ratings rather dropped.
The opening of TV channels of comprehensive programming exerted considerable influence on the TV-ratings and share of National Assembly Television. For this reason, the channel number of National Assembly Television was arranged in the subordinated number that it was difficult for the viewers to do zapping by the opening of TV channels of comprehensive programming. It was due to the arrangement of channel number which was not unified in each region.
When the specific events with the strong report was programmed like live filibuster and Choi Soon-Sil Gate Parliament Hearings, TV-ratings was lower than that of terrestrial news channel and TV channels of comprehensive programming, but TV channels of comprehensive programming and TV-ratings increased together, on the whole. In addition, the live broadcast programming for the specific events served as a momentum to raise its channel awareness of National Assembly Television. Analyzing the effect of programming in the National Assembly Television for ten years on TV-ratings, there was a limit to raise TV-ratings through the strategic programming as strong characteristic of public channel.
To conclude, based on such analysis results, this study was to suggest the direction of programming National Assembly Television to raise TV-ratings of National Assembly Television and to widen the viewing age groups.