Sports Illustrated
NBC and the Olympics
Business of sports
ABC Sports
ESPN
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Sports Illustrated's most popular annual edition

What is the Swimsuit Issue?

100
NBC tries to attract this gender to Olympic telecasts

What is female?

100

The No. 1 most watched type of program in America

What is football? 

100

Program that covered a wide variety of sports and raised the network's profile

What is "Wide World of Sports"?

100

Signature program that delivers highlights of the day's sporting events

What is "Sportscenter"?

200

20th Century media empire that started Sports Illustrated

What is Time, Inc.?

200
A tragedy was broadcast live at these Olympic games

What is the 1972 Olympics in Munich?

200

The reason live sports are valuable to advertisers

What is "they are DVR-proof"

200
Legendary TV executive who propelled ABC sports to greater success through innovation

Who is Roone Arledge?

200

Event that was thought to be too boring for TV that ESPN turned into an annual TV extravaganza

What is the NFL draft?

300

Sports Illustrated magazine's first major innovation

What was printing photographs in color?

300

Nickname for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team's victory over the USSR.

What is "the miracle on ice"? 

300

When television viewers get rid of their cable contracts in favor of streaming

What is cord-cutting? 

300

Boxer who had famous on-air chemistry with ABC broadcaster Howard Cosell

Who was Muhammad Ali? 

300

Famous ESPN broadcaster who was with the network when it started and invented many catch-phrases

Who is Chris Berman?

400

A key component to how the "Sportsperson of the Year" award was chosen

What was sportsmanship?

400

This network lost the rights to broadcast the Olympics

What is ABC?

400

The first 24-hour cable sports network

What is ESPN? 

400
Weekly sports telecast that gave ABC sports one of its most profitable slots in the broadcast lineup

What is "Monday Night Football"?

400

The reason advertisers wouldn't pay much for time on the network during the early years

What was low viewership? 

500

This development led to the downfall of Sports Illustrated because sports news was available more quickly.

What is the Internet?

500

This communications theory explains how NBC chooses what viewers of the Olympic telecasts will see

What is gatekeeping? 

500
Phrase businesses use to measure whether a venture is successful

What is "Return on Investment"?

500

Motorcycle daredevil who's famous jumps were broadcast on ABC sports

Who was Evil Kneivel?

500
The network's expansion into streaming

What is ESPN+

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