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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Sport in world history ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : ABC Sports and network sports television
- The "Almost Broadcasting Company" and the birth of ABC Sports
- ABC's Wide World of Sports : "The seedbed of modern sports television" and the Cold War
- "The network of the Olympics" : starring Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell
- Monday Night Football, Brian's song, and the roots of the prime-time TV event
- The news from Munich on the "Arledge Broadcasting Company"
- "What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?" : trashsports and scandal
- "No more sacred cows" : the end of ABC Sports' golden age
- Conclusion : from Wide World of Sports to the worldwide leader in sports
- Appendix 1 : Wide World of Sports inaugural season schedule, 1961
- Appendix 2 : ABC's Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year
- Appendix 3 : top 15 television audiences of all time as of Roots' premier
- Appendix 4 : top ten most watched Wide World of Sports episodes.