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BBC Sport in Black and White
Richard Haynes
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Description for BBC Sport in Black and White
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 347 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; JFD; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 596.
This book provides the first detailed account of the formative decades of BBC televised sport when it launched its flagship programmes Sportsview, Grandstand and Match of the Day. Based on extensive archival research in the BBC's written archives and interviews with leading producers, editors and commentators of the period, it provides a `behind-the-scenes' narrative history of this major institution of British cultural life. In 2016 the BBC celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its television coverage of England's World Cup victory. Their coverage produced one ... Read more
This book provides the first detailed account of the formative decades of BBC televised sport when it launched its flagship programmes Sportsview, Grandstand and Match of the Day. Based on extensive archival research in the BBC's written archives and interviews with leading producers, editors and commentators of the period, it provides a `behind-the-scenes' narrative history of this major institution of British cultural life. In 2016 the BBC celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its television coverage of England's World Cup victory. Their coverage produced one ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Number of Pages
347
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137454997
SKU
V9781137454997
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Ref
99-15
About Richard Haynes
Richard Haynes is Professor of Communications, Media and Culture and Member of the Stirling Media Research Institute at the University of Stirling, UK. He is author or co-author of several books on the relationships between sport and the media including The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture (1995), Football in the New Media Age (2003) and Power Play: ... Read more
Reviews for BBC Sport in Black and White
The book ... has been enriched by the presence of the BBC, and it has also been affected in numerous ways by the presence of cameras in the rules, the engagements of audiences and lure of advertisers. Readers interested in the evolution of sport, social and cultural history and the development of technology will be similarly enriched by this nostalgic ... Read more