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ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire
Travis Vogan
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Description for ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire
Hardback. .".ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire offers an inside look at how the network changed an industry and reshaped the very way we live as sports fans."--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 black and white photgraphs. BIC Classification: KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
Once a shoestring operation built on plywood sets and Australian rules football, ESPN has evolved into a media colossus. A genius for cross-promotion and its near-mystical rapport with its viewers empower the network to set agendas and create superstars, to curate sports history even as it mainstreams the latest cultural trends. Travis Vogan teams archival research and interviews with an all-star cast to pen the definitive account of how ESPN turned X's and O's into billions of $$$. Vogan's institutional and cultural history focuses on the network since 1998, the year it launched a high-motor effort to craft ... Read more
Once a shoestring operation built on plywood sets and Australian rules football, ESPN has evolved into a media colossus. A genius for cross-promotion and its near-mystical rapport with its viewers empower the network to set agendas and create superstars, to curate sports history even as it mainstreams the latest cultural trends. Travis Vogan teams archival research and interviews with an all-star cast to pen the definitive account of how ESPN turned X's and O's into billions of $$$. Vogan's institutional and cultural history focuses on the network since 1998, the year it launched a high-motor effort to craft ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039768
SKU
V9780252039768
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About Travis Vogan
Travis Vogan is assistant professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and American Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Keepers of the Flame: NFL Films and the Rise of Sports Media .
Reviews for ESPN: The Making of a Sports Media Empire
This smart, lively examination of ESPN's place in American culture and how it continues to consciously work its way in is a trove of research, insight, and fascinating stories.
Robert Lipsyte, New York Times columnist and author of An Accidental Represents a genuinely original and overdue assessment of perhaps the most significant entity in sports media since the penny ... Read more
Robert Lipsyte, New York Times columnist and author of An Accidental Represents a genuinely original and overdue assessment of perhaps the most significant entity in sports media since the penny ... Read more