Transformation of Sports Culture in the 19th Century

the printing press

a quarter (25%)

in the 1890s

<p>Sports became the bait for selling radio sets and television in the 1950s.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mark McCormack declared that 'sport was helping to make television and television was helping to make sport.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>TV networks began to envision themselves as 'copromoters' of the events alongside their league partners.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Corporate deregulation and satellite expansion led to the boom of sports talk radio.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The advent of ESPN in 1979 solidified the ubiquitous sports media landscape that is taken for granted today.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The broader tale of contemporary sports history traces a broader tale of media distribution and economics, influenced by technological breakthroughs and fan demand for sports content.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This chapter examines the symbiotic intersection of sports and journalism against the backdrop of fundamental questions about power, technology, money, and organizations' influence on media professionals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The chapter situates the effects of digital convergence on sports production within the now-limitless information environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the early years of co-dependency, journalism helped 'legitimate' sport as a wholesome cultural tradition and furnished leagues with a regular means of communicating with customers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The press furnished leagues with a regular means of communicating with customers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The coverage from the press cultivated among audiences 'a sense of car.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Professionalized and spectator-driven mass spectacle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hastened economic collusion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Benefit and inhibit potential as a journalistic form</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sport was helping to make television and television was helping to make sport.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>TV networks began to envision themselves as 'copromoters' of the events alongside their league partners.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sports became the bait for selling radio sets and television.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Journalism helped 'legitimate' sport as a wholesome cultural tradition and furnished leagues with a regular means of communicating with customers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The history of contemporary sports also traces a broader tale of media distribution and economics, driven in part by fan demand for sports content.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Corporate deregulation and satellite expansion led to the boom of sports talk radio.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The advent of ESPN in 1979 solidified the ubiquitous sports media landscape we take for granted today.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The New York Journal established sports as a recurring newspaper section in the 1920s.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sport was helping to make television and television was helping to make sport.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The press furnished leagues with a regular means of communicating with customers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The chapter situates the effects of digital convergence on sports production within the now-limitless information environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The coverage from the press cultivated among audiences 'a sense of car</p> Signup and view all the answers