Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship Signal Lost [Hardcover]

This book examines the political debates over the access to live telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the broad theoretical debates, political positions and policy calculations over the provision of live, free-to-air telecasts of sport as a right of cultural citizenship. In so doing, the book provides a number of comparative case studies that explore these debates and issues in various global spaces.

1. Sport, Public Service Media, and Cultural Citizenship  Jay Scherer and David Rowe  2. Before, During, and After the Neoliberal Moment: Media, Sports, Policy, Citizenship  Toby Miller  3. Televised Sport and Cultural Citizenship in Canada: The Two Solitudes of Canadian Public Broadcasting?  Jay Scherer and Jean Harvey  4. Selling Out: The Gaming of the Living Room Seat for the U.S. Sports Fan  Lawrence A. Wenner, Robert V. Bellamy and James R. Walker  5. Football for Everyone? Soccer, Television and Politics in Argentina  Pablo Alabarces and Carolina Duek  6. No Longer the Crown Jewels of Sport? Television, Sport and National Events in the UK  Raymond Boyle  7. The Law Not Applied: French Controversies about Television Viewer Access to the 2006 European Handball Championship  Fabien Ohl and Lucie Schoch  8. Belgiums List of Major Events Mechanism in the Digital Broadcasting Era  Katrien Lefever  9. Events of National Importance and Cultural Significance : Sport, Television and the Anti-Siphoning Regime in Australia  David Rowe  10. Millennium Blues: The Politics of Media Policy, Televised Sport, and Cultural Citizenship in New Zealand  Jay Scherer, Michael Sam and Steven J. Jackson  11. The Political Economy of Sl3!