Sports-Talk Radio in America : Its Context and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780789025890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 238 str.

John Mark Dempsey

Opis

'Sports-Talk Radio in America' looks at major-, medium-, and small-market stations across the United States that features an all-sports format, with a focus on the unique personalities and programming strategies that make each station successful.

Spis treści

• About the Editor
  
• Contributors
  
• “Sign On”
  
• Chapter 1. KTCK, “The Ticket,” Dallas-Fort Worth: “Radio by the Everyman,
  for the Everyman” (J. M. Dempsey)
  
• Chapter 2. WEEI, Boston: “Men Are Adults, Too” (Ron Bland)
  
• Chapter 3. WFAN and the Birth of All-Sports Radio: Sporting a New Format (Paul F. Gullifor)
  
• History
  
• Current Programming
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 4. WQTM, “The Team,” Orlando: Sports-Talk Radio in a City Where Sports Are Not King (Alma Kadragic)
  
• Orlando As a Sports Town
  
• Competition for “The Team”: WORL, “The Fan”
  
• Chapter 5. KOZN, “The Zone,” Omaha, Nebraska: “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” (J. H. Lipschultz and M. L. Hilt)
  
• College Sports in a Non-Pro-Sports Town
  
• Framing and Sports-Talk Radio
  
• Content: Unsportsmanlike Conduct
  
• Conclusions and Interpretations
  
• Appendix: An Interview with Neil Nelkin, Program Director, “The Zone”
  
• Chapter 6. KJR, Seattle: “It’s Our Job to Provide the Biggest Menu” (Troy Oppie)
  
• Introduction
  
• Part One: Roots
  
• Part Two: Sports Radio 950, K-J-R!
  
• Part Three: The Future
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 7. WIP, Philadelphia: “The Station with the Big Mouth and Even Bigger Heart” (Douglas Pils)
  
• Chapter 8. WGR and WNSA, Buffalo: Sports-Talk Radio versus Sports-Talk
  Radio—Competition Within the Sports-Talk Format (William Raffel)
  
• Buffalo Sports on the Radio
  
• Economics and the Birth of Full-Time Sports Talk
  
• The Nature of the Competition
  
• WGR Fights for a Second Look
  
• Epilogue
  
• Chapter 9. WHB, Kansas City: “World’s Happiest Broadcasters” (Max Utsler)
  
• The Early Days of WHB
  
• KCTE: Radio on a Shoestring
  
• The Competition Heats Up
  
• Chapter 10. WWLS, Oklahoma City: Unleashing “The Animal” (Shelley Wigley)
  
• “Sign Off”
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

O autorze

Hoffmann, Frank; Dempsey, Jack M.; Manning, Martin J