In the Beginning
(Pre-1920)
(Pre-1920)
Nearly 20 years after this terrible American war, Joseph Pulitzer purchased the New York World, dedicated a special newsroom to sports, and was the first person to hire a sports editor.
What is the Civil War?
Sports media as we know it today began to flourish via this technology in the early 1920s.
What is radio?
In 1980, the USA national hockey team completed an historic 4-3 upset victory over the Soviet Union known by this nickname.
What is the "Miracle on Ice"?
In 2013, this company was the last of the big four broadcast networks to launch a national sports network.
What is Fox?
By 2020, all but three states had either passed or introduced bills to allow this in some form.
What is sports gambling?
This was founded in 1906 as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association to formalize the rules for football and other intercollegiate sports.
What is the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)?
In 1954, the television industry had passed radio in this kind of revenue.
What is advertising?
By 1982, this American sporting event would be the highest rated sporting event of all time.
This became a viable option for networks to continue to provide fans with access to their favorite sports, wherever they might be viewing.
What is streaming?
Disney tried to acquire this company's sports media division but were unsuccessful when they purchased its parent company back in 2019.
What is Fox?
Baseball cards, distributed by these companies and candy companies, helped familiarize children with baseball and its players throughout the late nineteeth and twentieth centuries.
What is tobacco?
The 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin was the first sporting event broadcast live on this.
What is television?
The 1980s marked the introduction of this into sports media, one of the fastest growing segments of sports broadcasting today.
What is sports talk radio?
When it first released, for this much a month, a viewer could watch past games on demand along with ESPN's library of content on ESPN+ (formerly known as WatchESPN).
What is $4.99?
The sports media business in North America alone generated an estimated $73 billion in business in this year.
What is 2019?
According to reader-interest surveys of the early 1800s, headlines and these were the only two sections rated higher than sports.
What are comics?
On New Year's Day 1927, NBC launched its first coast-to-coast radio broadcast coverage with this college football bowl game.
What is the Rose Bowl?
What is baseball?
During this time, more professional teams wanted to be involved in the development and operation of these so they could have more control over how they are marketed and covered.
What are regional sports networks?
Podcasting was originally known as this.
What is audio blogging?
In 1911, more than 1,000 fans watched a mechanized re-creation of a college football game between the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri. The result of each play was received via this and then, as each play was announced, a ball was moved back and forth depending on its location on the field.
What is a telegraph?
In 1976, Ted Turner's WTCG (now TBS) became the first basic cable station to be launched via this.
What is satellite?
The mid and late 90s marked the rapid growth of these hyperlocalized forms of televised sports coverage.
What are regional sports networks?
These kinds of fees are largely responsible for rising cable and subscription fees in the 2010s.
What are rights fees?
Similar to podcasts and websites, this has allowed aspiring sports media professionals the ability to "cover" the sports they want.
What is social media?