ABC Sports : the rise and fall of network sports television / Travis Vogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogan, Travis, Author.

Series:

Sport in world history ; 4.

Sport in world history ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ABC Sports.

Television broadcasting of sports--United States--20th century.

Television broadcasting of sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-520-96626-0

OCLC:

1033546992