In the multimedia and multichannel period, the competition between channel brands seems to be more and more fierce in the broadcasting market. In such an environment, the broadcasting companies begin to build the identity of each channel and have much...
In the multimedia and multichannel period, the competition between channel brands seems to be more and more fierce in the broadcasting market. In such an environment, the broadcasting companies begin to build the identity of each channel and have much interest in the channel brand to secure the loyalty of each channel and regular audience. As the channel becomes more various, audience will choose only a few brands they like. So only the broadcasting companies with good brands will have a higher survival rate in the unlimited competition. The management of the channel brand will contribute to increasing the competitive power of the broadcasting companies when they diversify their business, advance to their new channels, and expand its brand etc.
In this way, as the broadcasting companies begin to have interest in the management of their brand, the various studies of channel brand come to appear. Above all, the study for Personality of channel brand is proceeding most briskly because the Personality of channel brand becomes a strong means of the brand differentiation. With this characteristic the Personality of channel brand is treated very importantly in the study of cable TV that services the various channels to subdivided audience. Cable TV different from airwaves which is for unspecific majority is for subdivided audience, and each channel of it has built its originality for the desire of its audience because it must be survived from competition against many similar genre of channels. In spite of these importance, the study is still insufficient which is for the influence that the Personality of channel brand and the role of its self-image in Cable TV give behaviors of consumers.
Hereupon, this study tried to examine the influence that the Personality of channel brand and the coincidence of its self-image in Cable TV gave female audience of cable TV. In addition, as it was considered that the audience saw the TV for their desire, the viewing motive of cable TV was set up as a control variable so that the influence could be examined that the coincidence of self-image by the viewing motive of Cable TV gave the channel's attitude of audience. If the coincidence of self-image per the viewing motive of cable TV is different from the influence by the channel attitude of audiences, the broadcasting companies can set up the organizing strategy that considers the tendency of audience and contributes to raise the brand property.
Before the study examined the study hypothesis, it analyzed the female audience' characteristic of cable TV.
Firstly, the viewing motive of cable TV per ages was analyzed. As a result, the viewing motive of domestic female audience was reveled as entertainment, social interchange, relaxation, pursuing information, and killing time. When the ages of female audience of cable TV was going down, the viewing motive was that pursuing entertainment went up and social interchange was low. On the contrary, when the ages was going up, the factor of pursuing entertainment was low.
Secondly, the female viewing motive of the female channel in cable TV was examined. As a result, domestic female audience saw the female channel as pursuing entertainment, the social interchanging was relatively low. It formed a high preference for the channels which was mainly viewed, but the recognition of channel differentiation was low.
Thirdly, the analysis of mutual relations was carried out to see the mutual relations among factors. As a result, the relation among viewing motive, channel attitude, and the coincidence of self- image was revealed to have a significant relation in the range of p<.01. The relation between the coincidence of self-image and the channel attitude of audience was showed that the audience who was high in the coincidence of self-image revealed a high loyalty of a channel. The relation between the viewing motive of cable TV and the coincidence of self-image was showed that the female audience who was high in the coincidence of self-image had the viewing motive of pursuing information. The relation between the viewing motive of cable TV and the channel attitude was showed that the audience who tried to be relaxed revealed the high loyalty and preference for a channel, and who tried to kill time had the low preference for it to the contrary. The audience who pursued information recognized the channel differentiation, while the audience wanted to kill time had the lowest recognition of the channel differentiation.
On the basis of such a characteristic of female audience, this study set up the conclusion of a study hypothesis as follows.
Firstly, to examine < Study Hypothesis 1>,' If the Personality of channel brand and the coincidence of self-image grows high, they will have the affirmative influence on the channel attitude.', this study analyzed the subordinate factors such as channel loyalty, channel preference, the influence on the recognition of channel differentiation. As a result, the Personality of channel brand and the coincidence of self-image showed a significant and a static influence on all the subordinate factors such as channel loyalty, reliance, and differentiation in the range of p<.001. Above all, < Study Hypothesis 1> was adopted because it showed more or less a high influence on the channel loyalty. It is able to be interpreted in the same connection that Kim Dohyung(2006) made public that 'If the Personality of channel brand in our terrestrial broadcasting companies and the coincidence of audience self-image grow high, the brand will be estimated affirmative.' In conclusion, the higher the coincidence of female audience in our cable TV, the more they showed the affirmative attitude, and the higher they showed the channel loyalty for the related brand. This fact can be regarded that it makes sure of the strategic use possibility in the channel brand field of cable TV.
Secondly, to examine < Study Hypothesis 2>, 'The Personality of channel brand and the coincidence of self-image per the viewing motive of cable TV which affect the channel attitude will be different.', the analysis of this study was carried out by means of a control regression. After the result of inputting the coincidence of self-image per the viewing motive in cable TV as a independent variable, the only relaxation in the viewing motives of cable TV united the coincidence of self-image and looked like a significant control effect in the loyalty and the channel preference, but it was no significant effect in the recognition of the channel differentiation. That is to say, < Study Hypothesis 2> was partly adopted. This fact shows that the viewing motive of cable TV which represents the audiences' desire isn't strongly operate in the relation of the coincidence of self-image and the channel attitude.