ABC Sports: the rise and fall of network sports television

"ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company sports division is behind some of network television's most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and iconic moments. It created the weekend anthology Wide World of Sports, transformed professiona...

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Main Author: Vogan, Travis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2018]
Series:Sport in world history 4
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company sports division is behind some of network television's most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and iconic moments. It created the weekend anthology Wide World of Sports, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle with Monday Night Football, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. This cultural and institutional history of ABC Sports examines the development of network sports television in the United States and the aesthetic, cultural, political, and industrial practices that mark it. ABC Sports traces the storied division from its beginnings through the internet age to reveal the changes it endured along with the new sports media environment it spawned"...Provided by publisher
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xiii, 291 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780520292963
9780520292956

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