• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.279-292
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to suggest what the effect of channel brand equity is in the environment of multi-platform and to raise how channel brand equity is important by investigating how terrestrial TV's channel brand equity influences viewers' choice and use of the terrestrial TV contents on the multi-platform. The findings showed that the terrestrial TV's channel brand equity partially had a significant effect on the degree of use of Terrestrial TV contents on multi-platforms, but it did not on the diversity of media for viewing the terrestrial TV contents. In addition, it partially had an influence on the use of platform and service for viewing terrestrial TV contents by type. Finally, it also partially had impacts on the diversity of genre and the genre use by type. The findings suggest that the channel brand equity can have effects on the viewers' choice and use of broadcasting contents on the multi-platforms, and thus this study provides significant insights on what strategies are required for the competitiveness of broadcasting channels.