Digital NBA

How the World's Savviest League Brings the Court to Our Couch

AvSteven Secular

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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The National Basketball Association reaches a global audience via a multiplatform strategy that leverages its uncanny ability to connect fans to all things NBA. Steven Secular brings readers inside the league’s global operations and traces the history of the NBA’s approach to sports media from its 1980s embrace of cable through the streaming revolution of the twenty-first century. As fans around the world stream games and other league content, NBA teams incorporate foreign languages and cultures into broadcasts to boost their product’s appeal to audiences in Brazil, China, and beyond. Secular’s analysis reveals how the NBA continues to transform itself into a wildly successful media producer and distributor more akin to a streaming studio than the sports leagues of old even as its media partners and sponsors erase any notion of sports as a civic good. A timely look at a dynamic media landscape, The Digital NBA shows how the games we love became content first and sport a distant second.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:399 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Sports Media
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Illinois Press
ISBN:9780252087349

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Bollsport inom Sport, fritid och hobby
Media och underhållning inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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Steven Secular is an independent scholar.

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“The book offers a timely and original contribution to an understanding of the current, highly managed transformation of the globally differentiated access to media content. Secular convincingly argues that in many respects the NBA is a frontrunner regarding its global media strategies and thus--similar to Netflix for fictional content--can be taken as a lens into the wider marketization and mediatization of sport in a global multi-platform environment.”--Markus Stauff, University of Amsterdam

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction: The International House of Hoops The Court: Event Production, Streaming Television, and the Glocalization of Live Sport The Venue: Silicon Valley, Public Finance, and the Arena as Media Platform The Wires: Dark Fiber, Satellites, and the Global Infrastructures of Streaming Sport The Office: The NBA’s Executive Operation as a Global Media Empire The Couch: At-Home Sport Spectatorship and the Multiplatform Viewing Environment Conclusion: The House That Hoops Built Notes Index

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