1st Edition

Sport and the Media Recent Economic, Legal, and Technological Developments:a Special Double Issue of trends in Communication

Edited By Raymond Boyle, Peter Flood, Deirdre Kevin Copyright 2005
88 Pages
by Routledge

88 Pages
by Routledge

Sport and the Media examines how reliable sportscasting is in the anchor role, reviews the development of sportscasting and specialized sporting services as a response to audience demand, and questions how well the sporting enthusiast--the fan--is being served by later, unanticipated developments. While sport has had a long symbiotic relationship with communication systems, the advent of a... Read more
Volume 12, Number 2, 2004
Contents: R. Boyle, P. Flood, D. Kevin, Editorial. H.A. Solberg, R. Hammervold, Sport Broadcasting: How to Maximise the Rating Figures. R. Boyle, Mobile Communication and the Sports Industry: The Case of 3G. R. Haynes, The Fame Game: The Peculiarities of Sports Image Rights in the UK. P. Dahlén, R. Thomsen, Sport on Commercial Norwegian Radio 1988-2003. R. Flynn, Tackling the Directive: Television Without Frontiers, Transnational Broadcasting and Irish Soccer.

Biography

Raymond Boyle teaches in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Stirling and is a  member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. Raymond Boyle sits on the Editorial Board of Media, Culture and Society and is co-author of Sport and National Identity in the European Media (1993) and, with Richard Haynes, of Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture (2000).