By Jon Porter
Thanks to a partnership between Sky, ITV and Ginx TV, the UK now has its first ever eSports channel showing 24 hours of content every day.
Ginx eSports TV is not quite the first eSports channel to grace British television ever, but it’s the first to do so without going offline for certain hours of the day.
Ginx eSports TV will show original programming as well as coverage from major events including Valve’s The International Dota 2 tournament, but can it offer anything for eSports fans that they can’t already get online?
Online rules the eSports roost
It’s hard to overemphasize just how massive eSports is online. Twitch.tv is a huge source of eSports livestreams, but Major League Gaming and now YouTube, with the launch of YouTube Live, are also major eSports destinations in their own right.
Every year thousands of hours of eSports content makes its way online, and users have total control over which matches to watch, which leagues to follow, and which commentary to listen to.
With how well the community is already being served online you might be forgiven for wondering why anyone would choose to watch eSports on old fashioned broadcast TV.
The answer is approachability.
The benefit …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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