• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.379-388
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• 2014

This study analyzed the status of Korean professional baseball as TV contents utilizing ratings. For the purpose of the study, Korea professional baseball's relative status to other genres though ratings is investigated. For this study, ratings per minute for the whole cable TV channel viewer ratings in 2010 were analyzed, and the following is the result of comparing and analyzing ratings per genre and channel of cable TV. Among 11 genres, drama showed the highest rating, and entertainment, movies, kids, news/reports, sports, music, etc followed. Drama and entertaining channels showed the highest ratings and sports did not show any high ranking. However, when analyzing times for broadcasting Korean professional baseball separately, Korean professional baseball in both genre and channel showed the highest r ratings and it was significant statistically. Thus, it is considered that Korean professional baseball is the most valuable contents for the related cable TV times.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.119-126
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• 2021

Recently OTT video service has grown rapidly and has a negative impact on the growth of pay-TV subscribers. Consequently the substitution of OTT services for pay-TV services will begin. This study explores OTT usage patterns, dividing into three sectors (OTT service use, OTT usage volume, and paid-OTT service use), by considering users' demographice factors, smart device ownership, pay-TV subscription, and bundle service use, by employing the Mediapanel dataset. The results showed that age, income, smartTV usage, market size, cable/satellite subscribers, TV VOD expenses, movie VOD expenses, and mobile bundle use are associated with OTT service use. The results also showed that age, household sizes, tablePC usgage, cable/satellite subscribers, TV VOD expenses, other VOD expenses, and unlimited data plans are associated with OTT usage volume. Lastly the results showed that age, gender, income, tabletPC usage, cable subscribers, other VOD expenses, mobile bundle usage, and unlimited data plans are associated with paid-OTT service use.