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Olympic Television: Broadcasting the Biggest Show on Earth 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Andrew C. Billings (Author), James R. Angelini (Author), Paul J. MacArthur (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated. Part sporting event, part reality show, and part global festival, the Olympics can be seen as both intensely nationalistic and a celebration of a shared sense of international community. This book sheds new light on how the Olympic experience has been shaped by television and expanded across multiple platforms and formats.


Combining a multitude of approaches ranging from interviews to content analyses to audience surveys, the book explores the production, influence, and significance of Olympic media in contemporary society. Built on a central case study of NBC’s coverage of the Rio Games in 2016, which is then placed within 20 years of content analyses, the book focuses on the entire Olympic television process from production to content to effects.


Touching on key themes such as race, gender, history, consumerism, identity, nationalism, and storytelling, Olympic Television: Broadcasting the Biggest Show on Earth is fascinating reading for any student or scholar with an interest in sport, media, and the global impact of mega-events.

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    Routledge
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    July 31, 2017
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Andrew C. Billings is the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting and Executive Director of the Alabama Program in Sports Communication in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama, U.S. He has published and/or edited 15 books, including Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television (Routledge, 2008) and The Fantasy Sport Industry: Games within Games (Routledge, 2014), as well as over 140 academic journal articles and book chapters mostly focusing on the intersecting roles of media, sport, and identity.

James R. Angelini is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware, U.S. He has published 29 articles in outlets such as the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Sport in Society, and the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. His research interests include the cognitive processing of media with a focus on mediated sports and identity.

Paul J. MacArthur is a Professor of Public Relations and Journalism at Utica College, U.S. His research interests include the Olympics, mediated sport, cable television, media law, media history, sports history, winter sports and professional wrestling. A veteran of the cable television and radio industries and an accomplished freelance writer, MacArthur’s writings have appeared in multiple publications including Smithsonian.com, Down Beat, The Houston Press, VERMONT Magazine, and Skiing Heritage: The Journal of the International Skiing History Association. He has also co-authored more than a dozen refereed articles focusing on television presentation of the Olympic Games.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B074F1Y561
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (July 31, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 31, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3919 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 254 pages
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Andrew Billings is the Executive Director of the Alabama Program in Sports Communication and Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. His research interests lie in the intersection of sport, mass media, consumption habits, and identity-laden content. With 20 books and over 200 journal articles and book chapters, he is one of the most published sports media scholars in the world. His books include Mascot Nation: The Controversy Over Native American Representations in Sports (with Jason Edward Black, University of Illinois Press, 2018) and The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication (with William L. Benoit, Peter Lang Press, 2020) and his journal outlets include the Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Mass Communication & Society, and the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. His writings have been translated into five languages. He also serves on many editorial boards, including as an Associate Editor of the journal Communication & Sport.

Billings’ work has won numerous awards from organizations such as the International Communication Association, National Communication Association, the Broadcast Education Association, and the Association for Education in Mass Communication and Journalism. He is the current chair of the Sports Interest Group of the International Communication Association, a former Research Symposium Chair for the Broadcaster Education Association, and the former Chair of the Mass Communication Division of the National Communication Association. He has lectured in nations around the world, from Spain to China to Austria. His work in the classroom has also earned him many teaching awards. He has been interviewed over 600 times by media outlets ranging from The New York Times to The Los Angeles Times to ESPN. Billings has also consulted with many sports media agencies and is a past holder of the Invited Chair of Olympism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

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