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Center field shot : a history of baseball on television /

Center Field Shot traces a sometimes contentious but mutually beneficial relationship from the first televised game in 1939 to the new era of Internet broadcasts, satellite radio, and high-definition TV, considered from the perspective of businessmen collecting merchandising fees and advertising rig...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walker, James R.
Other Authors: Bellamy, Robert V.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The experimental years
  • The first seasons of televised baseball
  • Team approaches to television in the broadcast era
  • Televising the world series
  • Origins of the game of the week
  • The national television package, 1966-89
  • National broadcasts in the cable era
  • The pay television era
  • Television as threat, television as savior
  • Television and the "death" of the golden age minors
  • Baseball, television, Congress, and the law
  • Baseball and television synergy
  • The announcer in the television age
  • Innovations in production practices
  • Baseball in the advanced media age.