Book chapter
Chronicling Sport Culture, Branding Sport Media Institutions: The Television Sports Documentary from Broadcast to Cable to Streaming
Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication, pp.123-131
Routledge international handbooks, Routledge, Second edition
2024
DOI: 10.4324/9781003430278-14
Abstract
Many of documentary films' most renowned works take sport as their topic. These productions celebrate sport, explore its history, and probe its relationship to society. Made-for-television sports documentaries explore the same concerns. But they are also shaped by factors specific to the medium of TV. This chapter uses ABC Sports, NFL Films, HBO Sports, and ESPN Films to explain how sport media outlets use television documentaries to construct, promote, and maintain their brands. These organizations' varied practices suggest that television sports documentaries are as invested in building institutional identities as they are in exploring sport's meanings.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Chronicling Sport Culture, Branding Sport Media Institutions: The Television Sports Documentary from Broadcast to Cable to Streaming
- Creators
- Travis Vogan
- Contributors
- Paul M. Pedersen (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication, pp.123-131
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Routledge; Abingdon, Oxon
- Series
- Routledge international handbooks
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003430278-14
- Alternative title
- Sport Media Institutions
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984701857302771
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