On the afternoon of the 11th, it was counted that the number of viewers of the second round of the Presidential Candidates’ four-party TV debate and the Beijing Winter Olympics short track event, which was broadcast at the same time, was twice as large as the short track event. The number of viewers of the 2nd TV debate for the presidential candidates decreased significantly compared to the 1st debate.
According to TNMS, a company specializing in ratings, the number of viewers of ‘The 2nd Presidential Candidate Four-Party Discussion’, which was broadcast simultaneously on 6 channels from 8 pm on the 11th, was 4.3 million. Based on the TNMS count, the number of viewers who watched the second discussion on MBN was 870,000, TV Chosun 810,000, YTN 730,000, JTBC 680,000, Yonhap News 630,000, and Channel A 580,000.
This figure is the result of a decrease of 3.61 million from the 7.91 million viewers at the time of the first discussion on the 3rd. According to Nielsen Korea, another ratings research company at the time of the first discussion, the combined rating of the three terrestrial broadcasters was 39%.
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TNMS interpreted that it was influenced by the fact that voter interest in the decrease in the number of viewers of the TV debate for the second presidential election and that the broadcast time overlapped with the short track race of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The number of viewers of the short track race at the Beijing Winter Olympics (8:00 to 10:12 pm) was 8.37 million. This is twice as many as the 4.3 million viewers of the TV debate for the second presidential election. The number of viewers who watched the short track race on SBS was 4.2 million, MBC 2.18 million, and KBS2 1.99 million.
On this day, South Korea’s national team athlete Min-Jeong Choi won the silver medal in the women’s 1000m. The men’s short track skaters advanced to the 5000m relay final, and Hwang Dae-heon, who competed in the men’s 500m race, advanced to the quarterfinals. The controversy over the biased judgment that the Chinese player gave advance even though he fell was raised again.
