ABC Sports : The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vogan, Travis (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
ABC Sports.
Television broadcasting of sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Émissions sportives televisees > États-Unis > 20e siecle.
Television broadcasting of sports > United States > 20th century.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9780520966260

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