ABC Sports : The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television Paperback / softback
by Travis Vogan
Part of the Sport in World History series
Paperback / softback
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ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company's 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.
Travis Vogan's 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.Â
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:06/11/2018
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- ISBN:9780520292963
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:06/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520292963
