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Communication
Revenue Sources
Trivia
Pioneers
Other important dates
100
This refers to a means of communicating a message to large numbers of people.
What is media?
100
This was a major revenue source in the early days of team sports (hint: it's not ticket sales)
What is concessions?
100
Sports illustrated was launched in this year.
What is 1954?
100
This pioneer is recognized as the visionary for Monday Night Football as well as slow motion and instant replay.
Who is Roone Arledge?
100
During this year, apple introduced iTunes.
What is 2003?
200
Radio, cable and broadcast television programming measure their effectiveness through these, which are expressed as a percentage of the potential TV audience viewing at any given time
What are ratings?
200
This area of the Sports industry generates the most revenue.
What is advertising?
200
This is the acronym for Sports and entertainment Marketing.
What is SEM?
200
This baseball player broke the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball.
Who was Jackie Robinson?
200
During this year, the first major sports event was televised featuring boxer Joe Louis.
What is 1946?
300
These came before tapes and Cds.
What are vinyl records?
300
These are fees paid by broadcast companies to sports or entertainment properties for the opportunity to provide live coverage of the property’s games and events on television, the radio or the Internet
What are media rights?
300
The Olympic Games became profitable for the first time in this year.
What is 1984?
300
This person created the Muppets and Sesame Street.
Who is Jim Henson?
300
This baseball team had the first full season broadcast in 1935.
Who were the Chicago Cubs?
400
This type of radio plays only music that you like and boasts over 150 million users.
What is Pandora Radio?
400
The overall size of this entire industry is estimated to be 435 billion.
What is the sports industry?
400
This was the year that Disney Land opened in Anaheim, California.
What is 1955?
400
In 1991, this individual launched Bad Boy Entertainment.
Who is Sean "Puffy" Combs?
400
It was during this year that Nintendo introduced its home entertainment system for video games.
What is 1985?
500
vi. These types of books accounted for $282.3 million in sales in the first quarter of 2012,
What are electronic books?
500
The following is a breakdown of what industry? a. $91 billion in film/theatrical/DVD rental/related revenues b. $80 billion in TV broadcast and cable revenues c. $76 billion in music industry revenues (CDs, downloads, radio, concerts, etc.) d. $18 billion in electronic gaming 6 e. $12 billion in amusement/theme park revenues f. $7 billion in theatrical productions
What is the entertainment industry?
500
This industry is more than twice the size of the auto repair services and parking industries.
What is the sports industry?
500
This eccentric owner sent 3 foot 7 inch Eddie Gaedel to the plate in an official game as a publicity ploy.
Who was Bill Veeck?
500
This baseball team became the first team to have all its players on salary in the year 1869.
Who were the Cincinnati Red Stockings?