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Play-by-play : radio, television, and big-time college sport
Title:
Play-by-play : radio, television, and big-time college sport
Author:
Smith, Ronald A. (Ronald Austin), 1936-
Publication Information:
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2001]

©2001
Physical Description:
viii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The media and early college sport -- Marconi, the wireless, and early sports broadcasting -- The broadcasters -- Graham McNamee and Ted Husing dominate the airwaves -- The radio threat to college football attendance -- In the image of Rockne : Notre Dame and radio policy -- Radio goes "bowling" : the Rose Bowl leads the way -- Sport and the new medium of television -- Networks, coaxial cable, commercialism, and concern -- Notre Dame chooses commercial TV -- Penn challenges the NCAA and the Ivy League -- The NCAA experimental year -- Networks : the Du Mont challenge -- Regional conferences challenge a national policy -- TV and the threat of professional football -- Roone Arledge and the influence of ABC-TV -- Advertising, image versus money, and the beer hall incident -- The television announcer's role in football promotion -- The cable television dilemma : more may be less -- TV money, Robin Hood, and the birth of the CFA -- TV property rights and a CFA challenge to the NCAA -- Oklahoma and Georgia carry the TV ball for the CFA team -- TV, home rule anarchy, and conference realignments -- Basketball : from Madison Square Garden to a televised final four -- TV's unfinished business : the Division I-A football championship.
ISBN:
9780801866869
Format :
Book