Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: Who says Korea doesn't invent anything? |
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From the New York Times:
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July 28, 2007
Video Game Matches to Be Televised on CBS
By SETH SCHIESEL
The magic of television has already transformed everything from motorcycle acrobatics to poker into living-room spectator sports, not to mention turning competitive singing into a national obsession. Next on the list: video games.
Tomorrow at noon, CBS, the august home of the Masters and March Madness, will become the first broadcast network in the United States to cover a video game tournament as a sporting event.
So viewers flicking channels looking for a ballgame or golf tournament may instead encounter a couple of young guys rocking out on plastic guitars, or some (literally) disembodied digital boxers throwing uppercuts, or a fanciful animated wizard casting a spell.
�Who knows, in 10 years we could be looking back on this as a very significant moment,� said Rob Correa, senior vice president for programming at CBS Sports. The network�s broadcast will consist of edited moments from the World Series of Video Games tournament, held in Louisville, Ky., last month.
�There are an enormous amount of people of all ages who play video games these days, so we�re going to try to see if video games� popularity can translate into a viable television audience,� Mr. Correa said.
CBS�s broadcast suggests it can. This is not the first time video game coverage has appeared on television. Cable networks like Spike, ESPN and USA have occasionally shown game coverage (to modest ratings), and smaller networks like G4 and Gameplay HD have carved out a niche by focusing on gaming culture.
Still, for most of the last two decades gaming has been considered an odd, insular subculture, the territory of teenage boys and those who never outgrew their teens. But now, as the first generation of gamers flirts with middle age, and as family-friendly game systems like Nintendo�s Wii infiltrate living rooms around the country, video games are beginning to venture beyond geekdom into a region approaching the mainstream.... |
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/arts/television/28vide.html
Talk about television programming on the cheap.
Sound familiar?
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| �Who knows, in 10 years we could be looking back on this as a very significant moment,� said Rob Correa, |
Who knows? In 10 years CBS could be all video games, all the time. |
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