Broadcasting & History
Key Individuals & Companies
Marketing Concepts & Definitions
Promotion & Strategy
Fan Engagement & Research
100

Question: The earliest evolutionary change in sports broadcasting, from factual reporting to sports entertainment, was seen in this program.

What is ABC’s Monday Night Football broadcast?

100

Question: This company was the first to capitalize on the term “official” with regard to a professional sport product.

What is Spalding?

100

Question: According to Kotler (2003), the marketer’s job boils down to this single action.

What is creating demand?

100

Question: This function of promotion is defined as paid messages conveyed through the media.

What is advertising?

100

Question: Sports marketers define this term as the personal commitment and emotional involvement customers have with a sport organization.

What is fan identification?

200

Question: Roone Arledge’s innovations for sports broadcasting included instant replay, sideline reporters, multiple cameras, and this audio technique.

What are crowd microphones?

200

Question: Mark McCormack’s sports marketing agency, IMG, began through a relationship with players of this sport.

What is golf?

200

Question: The group of consumers to whom a product is marketed is known as this.

What is the target market?

200

Question: This function of promotion refers to media exposure not paid for by the beneficiary.

What is publicity?

200

Question: The purposes of sport marketing research include profiling the sport consumer demographically and analyzing this type of behavior.

What is purchasing behavior?

300

Question: Roone Arledge believed that sports televised in prime time had to be more than just sport; they also had to be this.

What is entertainment?

300

Question: Nike's huge success has come primarily as a result of brand strength, advertising, and these high-profile agreements with athletes.

What are athlete endorsements?

300

Question: The controllable variables a company puts together to satisfy a target group are referred to as this.

What is the marketing mix?

300

Question: Providing free merchandise in exchange for a fan filling out personal information on an index card is an example of this type of marketing.

What is database marketing?

300

Question: In 1992, the San Jose Sharks used this research method in heavily traveled areas to gain information about fan reaction to proposed logo designs.

What are “pass-by interviews”?

400

Question: Roone Arledge famously described his efforts to change sports broadcasting with this phrase.

What is "take the fan to the game, not take the game to the fan"?

400

Question: This sport entrepreneur believed that fans came to the ballpark to "be entertained" and emphasized product extensions.

Who is Bill Veeck?

400

Question: By turning a parking garage into a mini-Niketown near the 1996 Olympics, Nike engaged in this controversial marketing tactic.

What is ambush marketing?

400

Question: Companies like Coca-Cola, Gillette, and American Tobacco were early pioneers in exploiting interest in sport through this mechanism.

What is sponsorship?

400

Question: This research purpose involves offering two-way communication with the target market.

What is sport marketing research?

500

Question: The long-term impact of Arledge’s work is that modern sport television is essentially a combination of this type of programming.

What is sport and entertainment?

500

Question: When working for the Golden State Warriors, Matt Levine developed this tool, which advanced the practices of sport marketing research.

What is an “audience audit”?

500

Question: This type of marketing aims to build mutually satisfying long-term relations with key parties—customers, suppliers, distributors—to earn and retain their business.

What is relationship marketing?

500

Question: Because a sport marketer has very little control over the core product (the game itself), entrepreneurs like Bill Veeck focused heavily on these to satisfy fans.

What are product extensions?

500

Question: Beyond identifying with teams, recent research suggests fans may also identify with these other elements.

What are coaches, individual players, smaller subgroups of fans, or sports in general?