This study is based on a premise that the mankind festival of Olympic games will affect the audience rating of TV programs and advertisements. It aims to examine how much it increases the rating of TV programs/advertisements and also how the rating of...
This study is based on a premise that the mankind festival of Olympic games will affect the audience rating of TV programs and advertisements. It aims to examine how much it increases the rating of TV programs/advertisements and also how the rating of programs/advertisements differs according to the situations of a TV’s exclusive broadcasting and co-broadcasting. The broadcastings of Olympic games used for this research were Vancouver Olympic games(exclusive broadcasting) and Beijing Olympic games(co-broadcasting). The ratings data of those were provided from TNmS, and positive analysis result is suggested in here.
The study result shows that exclusive broadcasting of Olympic games had positive effects on program/advertisement effectiveness. And there was significant difference in the hypotheses set up. Also, it was found that the effects of exclusive broadcasting were even greater than in co-broadcasting. And in exclusive broadcasting, the audience rating for advertisements was even higher than that of co-broadcasting. This difference differed by gender and age. Also, concerning advertising efficiency, it was found that the merits of broadcasting Olympic games were considerable.
Keywords: Olympic games, exclusive broadcasting, advertising effects, TV rating, advertising efficiency