Exam 12: Sport and the Mass Media Main Themes

One of the tenets of television sportscasters is that they are journalists first and sport promoters second.

Television has enhanced the expansion and financial status of some professional sport enterprises, but the lack of network television contracts has been responsible for the demise of others.

and are ways in which television mediates a sporting event.

Which of the following was not one of the structures or processes of sport that was manipulated to enhance viewer appeal and accommodate programming needs of media sport?

No women's professional team sport league has ever secured a major national TV network contract.

Sportscasters mediate a sporting event and thus create the listeners' and viewers' experiences of the event through their intervention.

Television is fundamentally a journalistic enterprise.

Over the past fifty years, virtually every sport had had its own video game. One of the first sport video games was

Sports journalism is a peculiar occupation. Describe the status (esteem) of sports journalists, including sportscasters, in the world of journalism and explain the reasons for this status.

What does it mean to say that media sport is mediated? Describe several of the ways in which media sport is mediated.

The process of selection is one way television manipulates sports and gives coherence to the sports world.

Functionalists contend that mass media sport tends to promote and sustain the unequal distribution of power and wealth, as well as legitimizing existing unequal social relations related to class, gender, and race.

Each form of the mass media has made an impact on sport in its own way, but television has had the most profound impact. Describe TV's impact on revenue, popularity shifts, game modifications, and redefining the meaning of sport.

Which of the following statements is not true? By the early 1990s, female sports writers had

"Rights fees" sold to commercial and cable television networks by the professional sports leagues constitute a rather small proportion of the total revenue of professional team sports.

Summarize historical and current conditions with regard to women and people of color in sport journalism.

In 1995 created the X Games as a made-for-TV alternative sporting event.

Television networks charge corporations advertising fees based on the anticipated number of viewers.

The systems of mass media communication can be grouped into two major categories: printed media and electronic media.

The Internet had its origins in US Defense Department research.