The Evolution of Television in Sports
Depending on the country where you live, live events such as baseball, football, horse racing, motor racing ,and skiing have long been some of the most popular elements of daily television broadcasting, right back to the start of television. Prior to that, it required the talents of radio commentators to conjure images of these events into the imagination of their audiences. Television did for modern professional sports what radio did for baseball in the 1920s; it gave the average American access, anywhere in the country. Except now, viewers can see virtually any game between any team, as opposed to just the Yankees and Dodgers from the old days. Television really has made sports more open and available to the world and without that they would not be as big as they are today worldwide.
I think that television has definitely helped the exposure and profitability of professional and even amateur, sports. There has been a youth sports explosion in recent years that many attribute to exposure on television. One only has to look at the impact Tiger Woods has had on the interest and participation of minorities in golf to realize the effect television has on sports.
Television has become the command center of our culture. People go to television for almost everything. Politics, literature, music, religion, news, commerce, sports, you name it and television has it.
The plethora of local and cable channels, specialized sport networks, and sport packages has also contributed to a diffusion of the television audience. New twenty-four hour sports channels definitely help, because more sports can be televised and sports can be rerun. For those who want to watch sports all day, there are channels and programs available 24/7. While there are all kinds of legitimately negative points to make about televised sports, I think that the connection that people make through sports is a positive thing.
References:
Pedersen, P., Miloch, K., &. Laucella, P. (2008). Strategic Sports Communication. Human Kinetics.
Poliakoff, Sean (2007). How television has changed the game of football. Retrieved Saturday, May 19, 2012. http://www.helium.com/items/693826-how-television-has-changed-the-game-of-football
The Evolution of ESPN
A father and son team of Bill Rasmussen and his son Scott, had an idea to launch a cable network devoted to broadcasting New England Whalers hockey games and, my undergraduate institution, University of Connecticut sports events with other sports-related programming. Now other networks had rights to broadcast different football games, basketball games, and collegiate sports etc, but the key was ESPN wanted to do this 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The original creation of ESPN was used as an alternative to the information found in “Sports” sections of newspapers. The small company was bought by the Getty Oil Company in 1979 before it became famous for broadcasting odd and very “unorthodox sporting events such as the World’s Strongest Man Competition, Australian Rules football, and many other sporting events only known to the international world.”
Now, ESPN is an all-sports network, giving a high quality content of sporting events that are on demand. ESPN channel alone is currently more than 96 million homes. SportsCenter ESPN’s first program has as many as 93 million viewers each month; it’s the only nightly, full-hour sports news program; as well as ESPN Radio, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, and Mobile ESPN. ESPN increased its consumer services with college and major league sports events, sports talk shows, fans can access content carried by EPSN’s other networks, sports video games. In addition to that, ESPN is also on the internet and provides sports content via ESPN video player in AOL’s portal and on top of that Mobile ESPN was designed as ESPN’s own cell phone network putting content into sports into fan’s pockets 24/7. ESPN is a broadcasting behemoth that airs roughly 70,000 hours of programming annually can be seen in 200 countries and employs more than 6,000 staffers.
References:
Pedersen, P., Miloch, K., &. Laucella, P. (2008). Strategic Sports Communication. Human Kinetics.
Miller, James Andrew; Tom Shales (2011). Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.
Depending on the country where you live, live events such as baseball, football, horse racing, motor racing ,and skiing have long been some of the most popular elements of daily television broadcasting, right back to the start of television. Prior to that, it required the talents of radio commentators to conjure images of these events into the imagination of their audiences. Television did for modern professional sports what radio did for baseball in the 1920s; it gave the average American access, anywhere in the country. Except now, viewers can see virtually any game between any team, as opposed to just the Yankees and Dodgers from the old days. Television really has made sports more open and available to the world and without that they would not be as big as they are today worldwide.
I think that television has definitely helped the exposure and profitability of professional and even amateur, sports. There has been a youth sports explosion in recent years that many attribute to exposure on television. One only has to look at the impact Tiger Woods has had on the interest and participation of minorities in golf to realize the effect television has on sports.
Television has become the command center of our culture. People go to television for almost everything. Politics, literature, music, religion, news, commerce, sports, you name it and television has it.
The plethora of local and cable channels, specialized sport networks, and sport packages has also contributed to a diffusion of the television audience. New twenty-four hour sports channels definitely help, because more sports can be televised and sports can be rerun. For those who want to watch sports all day, there are channels and programs available 24/7. While there are all kinds of legitimately negative points to make about televised sports, I think that the connection that people make through sports is a positive thing.
References:
Pedersen, P., Miloch, K., &. Laucella, P. (2008). Strategic Sports Communication. Human Kinetics.
Poliakoff, Sean (2007). How television has changed the game of football. Retrieved Saturday, May 19, 2012. http://www.helium.com/items/693826-how-television-has-changed-the-game-of-football
The Evolution of ESPN
A father and son team of Bill Rasmussen and his son Scott, had an idea to launch a cable network devoted to broadcasting New England Whalers hockey games and, my undergraduate institution, University of Connecticut sports events with other sports-related programming. Now other networks had rights to broadcast different football games, basketball games, and collegiate sports etc, but the key was ESPN wanted to do this 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The original creation of ESPN was used as an alternative to the information found in “Sports” sections of newspapers. The small company was bought by the Getty Oil Company in 1979 before it became famous for broadcasting odd and very “unorthodox sporting events such as the World’s Strongest Man Competition, Australian Rules football, and many other sporting events only known to the international world.”
Now, ESPN is an all-sports network, giving a high quality content of sporting events that are on demand. ESPN channel alone is currently more than 96 million homes. SportsCenter ESPN’s first program has as many as 93 million viewers each month; it’s the only nightly, full-hour sports news program; as well as ESPN Radio, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, and Mobile ESPN. ESPN increased its consumer services with college and major league sports events, sports talk shows, fans can access content carried by EPSN’s other networks, sports video games. In addition to that, ESPN is also on the internet and provides sports content via ESPN video player in AOL’s portal and on top of that Mobile ESPN was designed as ESPN’s own cell phone network putting content into sports into fan’s pockets 24/7. ESPN is a broadcasting behemoth that airs roughly 70,000 hours of programming annually can be seen in 200 countries and employs more than 6,000 staffers.
References:
Pedersen, P., Miloch, K., &. Laucella, P. (2008). Strategic Sports Communication. Human Kinetics.
Miller, James Andrew; Tom Shales (2011). Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.