A History of Sports Highlights

Download or read book A History of Sports Highlights written by Ray Gamache and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development and popularity of the sportscast highlight—the dominant news frame in the crowded medium of electronic sports journalism—as the primary means of communicating about sports and athletes. It explores the intricate relationships among media producers, sports leagues and organizations, and audiences, and explains that sportscast highlights are not a recent development, given their prominent use within a news context in every medium from early news film actualities and newsreels to network and cable television to today’s new media platforms.