Sunday, March 4, 2012

‘Infinity Challenge’ ratings drop due to MBC Labor Union Strike


MBC’s variety show ‘Infinity Challenge’ failed to keep steady ratings.
According to AGB Nielsen Media Research on March 4th, the ‘Infinity Challenge’ episode that was aired on March 3rd had a rating of 8.6%.  Compared to February 25th’s episode’s rating of 9.3%, the ratings have dropped by 0.7%.
‘Infinity Challenge’ was affected by the MBC Labor Union strike and has not aired a new episode for five weeks. The last episode that was aired before the strike on January 28th, obtained a rating of 19.5%, but afterwards MBC aired reruns and the ratings dropped steadily to10.9% then to an even lower 8.6%.
On another note, other programs in the same time slot as ‘Infinity Challenge’, obtained higher ratings.  SBS ‘Star King’ obtained a rating of 12.6% and KBS ‘Immortal Song 2′ had a rating of 11.7%.