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CBS May Broadcast MLG On TV This Fall

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 zaii   Guam. June 10 2012 19:48. Posts 2423
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CBS Will Broadcast Major League Gaming On TV This Fall



ANAHEIM – With the 2012 Major League Gaming Spring Championship in full swing this weekend in Anaheim, Sundance DiGiovanni, founder and CEO of MLG, said that CBS will broadcast an MLG event this fall. CBS Interactive Games, which has an exclusive partnership with MLG to sell advertising for its events, was in Anaheim to live stream coverage through Gamespot.

“We had meetings during E3 with major mainstream advertisers and there’s a lot of interest in what we’re doing,” said DiGiovanni. “While streaming will remain an integral part of the expansion of eSports, there will be a broadcast component on CBS this fall.”

CBSi Games has hired pro gamers to complement its coverage of eSports. TSquared and Mrs. Violence were both in Anaheim with camera crews to provide original streaming coverage of the event. Additional pro gamers that CBSi is working with include Huk, Grubby, InControl and Idra on Starcraft II. They’re also working with Starcraft casters like Husky.

“We will help MLG distribute their content, we will carry their content on Gamespot, and on top of that, we’ll do our own content with pro players and wrap-ups,” said Simon Whitcomb, vice president, CBSi Games. “We’re a distribution point. We take existing content and broadcast it out to a wider audience.”

MLG held pro gaming tournaments at the Gamespot booth throughout E3 week with StarCraft II on Tuesday, Mortal Kombat on Wednesday and Call of Duty on Thursday.

Moving forward, Whitcombe said CBSi Games will follow the audience of eSports into new games, including the Dota 2 community and League of Legends.

DiGiovanni said that a growing number of game publishers and developers are incorporating elements specifically for eSports into new games. Activision has already said Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will have features catered for eSports. And Microsoft and 343 Industries are expected to showcase exclusive features for Halo 4 designed for this growing community. Other games will be unveiled in the coming months. With this type of implementation, DiGiovanni said next season could see even more games integrated into MLG.

The CBS brand creates a level of comfort with a wide stable of advertisers because CBS brings a lot of serious brand advertisers to the table,” said Whitcombe. “We add a reach to eSports events that it’s been difficult for individual leagues to do until now.”


Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/06/10/cbs-will-broadcast-major-league-gaming-on-tv-this-fall/

EDIT:

Regarding MLG on TV - recent article jumped the gun. Not a done deal but definitly something that we are exploring.

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 zaii   Guam. June 10 2012 19:49. Posts 2423
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well shit can a mod shorten Major league gaming to "MLG" and add "this fall" at the end of the title.
 
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 archonOOid   June 10 2012 19:50. Posts 1871
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looks promising
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 Hassybaby   United Kingdom. June 10 2012 19:51. Posts 8392
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Sick. That's pretty big news to get it on CBS
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  Jaaaaasper   United States. June 10 2012 19:53. Posts 2391Profile Blog # 
That is awesome, hope it works out well!
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 Jinsho   United Kingdom. June 10 2012 19:54. Posts 3022
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What kind of channel is CBS? Is it pay per view, cable, terrestric? How widely spread is it throughout the US?
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 slicknav   June 10 2012 19:56. Posts 1394
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On June 10 2012 19:54 Jinsho wrote:
What kind of channel is CBS? Is it pay per view, cable, terrestric? How widely spread is it throughout the US?


its a basic cable network. Pretty much everyone has CBS.
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 masterbreti   Korea (South). June 10 2012 19:57. Posts 2547
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CBS is cable from what i understand, and is a top channel along with Fox, NBC, ABC.
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 Arolis   United States. June 10 2012 20:00. Posts 415
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On June 10 2012 19:56 slicknav wrote:

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its a basic cable network. Pretty much everyone has CBS.

Basic cable? No. How about fully free network channel. All you need is an antennae and digital converter.
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 snailz   Croatia. June 10 2012 20:02. Posts 636
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On June 10 2012 19:56 slicknav wrote:

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its a basic cable network. Pretty much everyone has CBS.


isn't it something like BBC in UK? like, everyone has it?
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 Jinsho   United Kingdom. June 10 2012 20:02. Posts 3022
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Ok thank you. So in theory this could be pretty big for MLG.
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 ShatterZer0   United States. June 10 2012 20:02. Posts 1832
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I love how they're trying to make archaic fps that have basic principals that are more primitive than Quake into ESPORTS...

Well, let's hope tv is handled well...
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 DamageControL   United States. June 10 2012 20:02. Posts 3546
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On June 10 2012 20:02 snailz wrote:

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isn't it something like BBC in UK? like, everyone has it?

if you can watch tv, you have CBS.
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 Fyodor   June 10 2012 20:11. Posts 839
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Send some pros or casters on Letterman too please, CBS. They had SNSD on the show once...
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 TheSir   June 10 2012 22:07. Posts 1576
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Lol no way it will be broadcasted on CBS, esports isn't ready for a big channel like that. Not to mention CBS doesn't even have timeslots for things like that. Their worst performing shows get like 6 million views (only US residents), esports doesn't even pulls off 10% of that with views from all over the world. It would be their worst performing show of all time, they wont do that.

10 bucks it will and up on Spike or MTV (who already air gameshows), so dont get your hopes up they will air esports on the most successful channel in the US. Not gonna happen, it's ridiculous.


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 zEnVy   United States. June 10 2012 22:10. Posts 445
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Yeah I doubt this means an MLG gets on the CBS channel itself. It will be on one of their many subsidiaries.
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 Aocowns   Norway. June 10 2012 22:11. Posts 3476
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This is going to be THE year of e-Sports, damn
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 mrRoflpwn   United States. June 10 2012 22:11. Posts 2394
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On June 10 2012 22:07 TheSir wrote:
Lol no way it will be broadcasted on CBS, esports isn't ready for a big channel like that. Not to mention CBS doesn't even have timeslots for things like that. Their worst performing shows get like 6 million views (only US residents), esports doesn't even pulls off 10% of that with views from all over the world. It would be their worst performing show of all time, they wont do that.

10 bucks it will and up on Spike or MTV (who already air gameshows), so dont get your hopes up they will air esports on the most successful channel in the US. Not gonna happen, it's ridiculous.





Thank you for being the only realistic person here. "ESPORTS" is far far away from being on TV simply due to viewership numbers.
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 Sooooil   Germany. June 10 2012 22:13. Posts 401
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So does this mean there might be events which will be TV only? I know they said is streaming is an integral part ..., but I'm curious as how this will affect the possibilities of Europeans watching MLG as we don't have CBS.
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 Spektrum   United States. June 10 2012 22:15. Posts 10
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It seems unlikely to be on the terrestrial broadcast channel of CBS; they own other networks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_CBS
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