My Little Television

My Little Television
Genre Entertainment
Presented by Seo Yu-ri
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 75 + 2 (pilot) (as of November 12, 2016)
Production
Location(s) South Korea
Running time 70 minutes
Release
Original network MBC, Daum tvPot
Original release February 22 & 28, 2015 (pilot)
April 25, 2015 (2015-04-25) – present
External links
Website

My Little Television (Hangul: 마이 리틀 텔레비전) is a South Korean television program which has been broadcast since February 2015, and features personal internet broadcasting similar to the likes of afreecaTV, Twitch.tv or Daum tvPot. The program is hosted by Seo Yu-ri. The program is formatted in the form of a competition between main casts based on their internet broadcasting performance. It airs on Daum tvPot (Raw live broadcasting of 'channels' of main casts/random time on Sundays (KST) every 2 weeks), as well as on MBC (Every Saturday at 23:15) since the beginning of April 25, 2015.[1]

Controversies

Flag incident

In November 2015, girl group Twice appeared on the show, and Taiwanese member Tzuyu introduced herself as Taiwanese and held the ROC flag alongside that of South Korea. The Japanese flag was also shown, representing the nationalities of the girl group members.

Initially there were no reactions to the incident, but after the Taiwanese-born, China-based singer Huang An took to his Sina Weibo account and accused Tzuyu of being a Taiwanese independence activist.[2] This led to internet users in Mainland China to react angrily towards Tzuyu's actions, accusing her of "profiting from her mainland Chinese audience while holding a pro-independence stance". Soon after, Twice was barred from Chinese television, Tzuyu was pulled out from her endorsement deal with Chinese communications corporation Huawei, and all her activities in China were suspended.[3]

On January 15, 2016, the day before the Taiwanese general election, the CEO of JYP Entertainment, Park Jin-young apologized to Chinese media through his Weibo account, and JYP released a video of Tzuyu reading an apology, which included the statement:

“ There is only one China, the two sides of the strait are one, and I have always felt proud to be Chinese. I feel extremely apologetic to my company and to Internet friends on both sides of the strait for the hurt that I have caused, and I also feel very guilty.[4] ”

Effects

As many believed the statement was made under duress, the apology video infuriated the Taiwanese public on election day.[5] The incident gained international attention as it was believed to have affected the 2016 Taiwanese general election, which was won by Tsai Ing-wen and the pro-independence DPP by a wide margin. While the DPP were already leading the polls months prior to the election,[4][6] a survey found that Tzuyu's video apology affected the decision of about 1.34 million young voters, either by swaying them to vote or change their votes.[7] Scholars believe that the incident probably contributed one or two percentage points to Tsai's winning margin.[6]

List of episodes

2015

2016

Ratings

In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in red, and the lowest rating for the show will be in blue each year.

2015 Ratings

2016 Ratings

Year Episode # Original Airdate AGB Ratings
Nationwide Seoul National Capital Area
2016 MLT-19 37 January 9 8.7% 9.6%
38 January 16 10.0% 11.3%
MLT-20 39 February 6 9.2% 10.0%
40 February 13 7.6% 8.7%
MLT-21 41 February 20 8.5% 9.5%
42 February 27 7.1% 8.1%
MLT-22 43 March 5 6.8%
44 March 12 6.1%
MLT-23 45 March 19 9.2% 10.6%
46 March 26 7.7% 8.8%
MLT-24 47 April 2 6.6% 8.0%
48 April 9 6.5%
MLT-25 49 April 16 6.3%
50 April 23 5.7% 6.7%
MLT-26 51 April 30 6.4% 7.5%
52 May 7 6.2%
MLT-27 53 May 14 5.9% 7.5%
54 May 21 4.9%
MLT-28 55 May 28 5.4%
56 June 4 5.3%
MLT-29 57 June 11 6.0% 6.9%
58 June 18 5.2% 6.0%
MLT-30 59 June 25 5.6% 6.4%
60 July 2 4.2%
MLT-31 61 July 9 4.8%
62 July 16 5.2%
MLT-32 63 July 23 6.8% 7.9%
64 July 30 5.9% 7.0%
MLT-33 65 August 27 4.3%
66 September 3 4.1%
MLT-34 67 September 10 5.6%
68 September 17 2.9%
MLT-35 69 September 24 4.9%
70 October 8 3.7%
MLT-36 71 October 15 5.2%
72 October 22 4.3%
MLT-37 73 October 29 4.2%
74 November 5 4.7%
MLT-38 75 November 12 4.5%
76 November 19 2.4%

Notes

  1. ↑ Korean wordplay on Hani's name
  2. ↑ Korean wordplay on SHINee's song, View

References

  1. ↑ "'꿀잼'과 '노잼' 사이의 안간힘…MBC '마이 리틀 텔레비전'". Yeonhap News. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
  2. ↑ "Huang An to explain his side of story next month". Taipei Times. January 19, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Taiwanese K-pop singer Chou Tzu-yu mired in flag row". The Straits Times. January 15, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Buckley, Chris; Ramy, Austin (17 January 2016). "Singer's Apology for Waving Taiwan Flag Stirs Backlash of Its Own". The New York Times.
  5. ↑ Xueying, Li (16 January 2016). "Video of K-pop singer Chou Tzu-yu apologising for waving flag angers Taiwanese on polling day". The Straits Times.
  6. 1 2 "Taiwan election: How a penitent pop star may have helped Tsai win". BBC. 18 January 2016.
  7. ↑ Chan, Minnie (17 January 2016). "Teen pop star Chou Tzu-yu's apology for waving Taiwan flag swayed young voters for DPP". South China Morning Post.

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