The 34-year-old Marcel Eris is already one of the biggest streamers on German Twitch as MontanaBlack. Now he is setting up a second channel that is supposed to provide content around the clock. Find out at MeinMMO what it’s all about.
What kind of channel is this? On January 24, MontanaBlack announced his new Twitch channel on Twitter. There, old videos and streams are supposed to run around the clock from now on. The channel is called GetOnMyLvLTV, you can find it here.
MontanaBlack as a TV alternative
How is it being received? Reactions on Twitter are somewhat mixed. While some find the channel “mega” and already bookmark it for when they’re “bored”, others focus primarily on the financial aspect.
This is actually quite clever and a good source of income, as MontanaBlack could receive stable advertising revenue with minimal effort.
However, some viewers see this quite critically: They accuse MontanaBlack of being only interested in money and not caring about his community. If he needs money, he should simply stream more than 8 hours a week, says a Twitter user (via Twitter).
Many also seem to draw a comparison to another veteran of German Twitch: Erik “Gronkh” Range. He has been operating a second channel since 2015, which, although offline for a time, now broadcasts old Let’s Plays and streams from Gronkh around the clock again.
Was Gronkh the role model?
What’s behind GronkhTV? Gronkh’s 24-hour channel has a special backstory. When the YouTuber was pressured by the state media authority in 2018 to acquire a broadcasting license, he decided to reactivate his old second channel and apply for a license for it.
After all, the channel is actually broadcasting around the clock and is therefore more like a TV station than he, a private individual streaming from his basement, explained Gronkh back then in a video (via YouTube).
For this reason, there are already speculations that MontanaBlack’s second channel could have something to do with broadcasting laws. However, the connection is not entirely clear yet, as the 34-year-old – like all streamers in Germany who average at least 20,000 viewers – already had to apply for a broadcasting license.
The second channel thus does not help him bypass such a license.
However, it is possible that the second channel has something to do with the unfortunate wildlife park stream in October 2022. MontanaBlack had to take it offline after a mother obtained a restraining order because she and her daughter were seen in the background.
The streamer had claimed that he was practically a television station and that such things would fall under “ancillary”. He therefore intends to contest the decision in court. Whether his Twitch channel will help him with this remains to be seen.
Dispute over a few seconds on Twitch: MontanaBlack wants to go to court over a stream
