Play-by-Play: Radio, Television, and Big-Time College Sport » (1st Edition)

Ronald A. Smith is a professor emeritus at Penn State University and has held the position of Secretary-Treasurer of the North American Society for Sport History since 1972. His many books include Big-Time Football at Harvard, 1905; Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics; and Saga of American Sport.

"A well-researched, historical analysis... Provides an often troubling account of the corruptive power of money, broken promises, misguided priorities, crushed dreams and academic compromises." -- Journalism and Mass Communication Editor

Contents:



Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Media and Early College Sport

2 Marconi, the Wireless, and Early Sports Broadcasting

3 The Broadcasters

4 Graham McNamee and Ted Husing Dominate the Airwaves

5 The Radio Threat to College

6 In the Image of Rockne: Notre Dame and Radio Policy

7 Radio Goes "Bowling": The Rose Bowl Leads the Way

8 Sport and the New Medium of Television

9 Networks, Coaxial Cable, Commercialism, and Concern

10 Notre Dame Chooses Commercial TV

11 Penn Challenges the NCAA and the Ivy League

12 The NCAA Experimental Year and Reactions

13 Networks: The Du Mont Challenge

14 Regional Conferences Challenge a National Policy

15 TV and the Threat of Professional Football

16 Roone Arledge and the Influence of ABC-TV

17 Advertising, Image versus Money, and the Beer Hall Incident

18 The Television Announcer's Role in Football Promotion

19 The Cable Television Dilemma: More May Be Less

20 TV Money, Robin Hood, and the Birth of the NCAA

21 TV Property Rights and a CFA Challenge to the NCAA

22 Oklahoma and Georgia Carry the TV Ball for the CFA Team

23 TV, Home Rule Anarchy, and Conference Realignments

24 Basketball: From Madison Square Garden to a Televised Final Four

25 TV's Unfinished Business: The Division I-A Football Championship



Appendix: Radio, TV, and Big-Time College

Sport: A Timeline

Notes

Bibliographical Essay

Index