Smith Play-by-Play

Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8018-7692-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Noted sports historian writes on the relationship of the media to college athletics.

Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 by Choice Magazine

The phenomenal popularity of college athletics owes as much to media coverage of games as it does to drum-beating alumni and frantic undergraduates. Play-by-play broadcasts of big college games began in the 1920s via radio, a medium that left much to the listener's imagination and stoked interest in college football. After World War II, the rise of television brought with it network-NCAA deals that reeked of money and fostered bitter jealousies between have and have-not institutions. In Play-by-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport noted author and sports insider Ronald A. Smith examines the troubled relationship between higher education and the broadcasting industry, the effects of TV revenue on college athletics (notably football), and the odds of achieving meaningful reform.

Beginning with the early days of radio, Smith describes the first bowl game broadcasts, the media image of Notre Dame and coach Knute Rockne, and the threat broadcasting seemed to pose to college football attendance. He explores the beginnings of television, the growth of networks, the NCAA decision to control football telecasts, the place of advertising, the role of TV announcers, and the threat of NCAA "Robin Hoods" and the College Football Association to NCAA television control. Taking readers behind the scenes, he explains the culture of the college athletic department and reveals the many ways in which broadcasting dollars make friends in the right places. Play-by-Play is an eye-opening look at the political infighting invariably produced by the deadly combination of university administrators, athletic czars, and huge revenue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Ronald A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Media and Early College Sport
2 Marconi, the Wireless, and Early Sports Broadcasting
3 The Broadcasters
4 Graham McNamee and Ted Husing Dominate the Airwaves
5 The Radio Threat to College
6 In the Image of Rockne: Notre Dame and Radio Policy
7 Radio Goes "Bowling": The Rose Bowl Leads the Way
8 Sport and the New Medium of Television
9 Networks, Coaxial Cable, Commercialism, and Concern
10 Notre Dame Chooses Commercial TV
11 Penn Challenges the NCAA and the Ivy League
12 The NCAA Experimental Year and Reactions
13 Networks: The Du Mont Challenge
14 Regional Conferences Challenge a National Policy
15 TV and the Threat of Professional Football
16 Roone Arledge and the Influence of ABC-TV
17 Advertising, Image versus Money, and the Beer Hall Incident
18 The Television Announcer's Role in Football Promotion
19 The Cable Television Dilemma: More May Be Less
20 TV Money, Robin Hood, and the Birth of the NCAA
21 TV Property Rights and a CFA Challenge to the NCAA
22 Oklahoma and Georgia Carry the TV Ball for the CFA Team
23 TV, Home Rule Anarchy, and Conference Realignments
24 Basketball: From Madison Square Garden to a Televised Final Four
25 TV's Unfinished Business: The Division I-A Football Championship

Appendix: Radio, TV, and Big-Time College
Sport: A Timeline
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith, Ronald A.
Ronald A. Smith is a professor emeritus at Penn State University and has held the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the North American Society for Sport History since 1972. His many books include Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905; Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics; and Saga of American Sport.