The “Almost Broadcasting Company” and the Birth of ABC Sports

ABC Sports ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 9-32
Author(s):  
Travis Vogan
Keyword(s):  
College Football ◽  
Early History ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Television Industry ◽  
Sports Programs ◽  
Show Business ◽  
Sports Programming ◽  
The 1950S

During the 1950s, industry insiders jokingly referred to the unsuccessful American Broadcasting Company as the “Almost Broadcasting Company.” ABC turned to sports to forge an identity in network television and build a stable audience. It initially contracted its sports programming to Edgar Scherick’s Sports Programs Inc., which it purchased in 1961 and renamed ABC Sports. Scherick hired NBC producer Roone Arledge to oversee his college football broadcasts. Arledge developed a dramatized approach to sports television that would “take viewers to the game” and offer what he called an “up close and personal” perspective. Chapter 1 outlines ABC’s early history and turn to sports programming to build a niche in the television industry. It then discusses Arledge’s hiring, the development of his aesthetic, and the first ABC productions that embodied his effort to “add show business to sports” and set in motion the subsidiary’s main practices.

Invincible bodies: American sport media’s racialization of Black and white college football players

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-290
Author(s):  
Siduri J Haslerig ◽  
Rican Vue ◽  
Sara E Grummert
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
College Football ◽  
American Football ◽  
Football Players ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
White American ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Us ◽  
Sports Programming ◽  
White College

As the most watched college sport broadcast of all time, the US Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN)’s College GameDay (CGD) is one source of socialization that primes US audiences to make certain associations. Through disaggregated analysis of regular- and post-season CGD pre-game and game-of-the-week broadcasts during the 2016 football season, the authors examine the coverage of players’ physicality and injuries, contrasting the portrayals of Black and white American football players. The paper documents prominent narratives that promoted Black players as relatively invulnerable, while making the case that these narratives serve to prime audiences to ascribe inhuman abilities to Black people and thereby reinforce white supremacist ideology.

A History of Road Vehicles

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
David J. N. Limebeer ◽  
Matteo Massaro
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Road Vehicles ◽  
History Of ◽  
Wheeled Vehicles

Chapter 1 is almost entirely discursive and covers the early history of road vehicles, outlining some of the important technological achievements that underpin the development of modern road vehicular transport. The focus is on bicycles, motorcycles, and cars; the history of steering mechanisms for four-wheeled vehicles is considered early on. Several early engine, suspension, and tyre developments are also discussed.

On Becoming Vietnamese

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonán Ó Briain
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Early History ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Performing Artists ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Historically Situated ◽  
Creative Artists

Chapter 1 examines the mythologization of the Hmong and other minorities by mainstream performing artists to show how those minorities have been inscribed into Vietnam’s national consciousness through popular music. The chapter traces the early history and migrations of the Hmong into the mountains of Southeast Asia to their formal identification as an ethnic group in French Indochina. From revolutionary songs (ca khúc cách mạnh) in the 1950s and 1960s to independent creative artists in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the multivalent superculture that comprises the Vietnamese mediascape has perpetuated a series of stereotypes about the minorities. Songs, artists, and composers are linked to historically situated political developments to illustrate the gradual assimilation of Hmong and other minorities into Vietnamese culture and society.

Classical Manuscripts in Australia and New Zealand, and the Early History of the Codex

Antichthon ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 60-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.H.R. Horsley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Technical Information ◽  
Early History ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

A generation ago K.V. Sinclair published what is still the standard guide to medieval manuscripts held in Australia. The title defines the scope: Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Western Manuscripts in Australian Collections. The parameters are further delimited by date: included are MSS of the Xlth-XVIth centuries. Brim full with technical information, and perhaps as a result rather austere in presentation, this book is a testimony to Sinclair's perseverance: the completed manuscript was lost at the end of the 1950s, and he started again. One consequence of this setback is that the addenda to the main catalogue update a work that was largely finished over thirty years ago; yet even these additions were not able to take account of some items which came to Australia at the end of the 1950s.

Settling Chattanooga

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Courtney Elizabeth Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
People Today

Chapter 1 charts the historical relationship between Native dispossession and early city planning and development in downtown Chattanooga, to understand more deeply the complex relationship that many contemporary Chattanoogans have with the legacies of Cherokee dispossession that took place within their hometown’s borders. The chapter focuses on the construction of historical narratives of people and place during the pre-removal and Removal periods, and argues that a paternalistic, yet quasi-reverent and nostalgic, popular framing of Native culture and removal has profoundly impacted how many people today relate to, and represent, Chattanooga’s early history. Tracing the genealogy of race, property, and Native removal in the context of early city-building prepares the ground for later discussions of contemporary Native American placemaking activities along the Tennessee riverfront.

scholarly journals The early history of netting bats

Therya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Robert M. Timm ◽  
Suzanne B. McLaren ◽  
Hugh H. Genoways
Keyword(s):  
Early History ◽  
Ww Ii ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Mist Net ◽  
The U.S

The Japanese-style mist net that mammalogists and ornithologists use extensively came into regular use by scientists in the 1950s and early 1960s and its use in capturing bats and birds unharmed is now worldwide.  The history of the innovative mist net, which was originally made of silk and brought to the U.S. by ornithologist Oliver L. Austin, Jr., shortly after WW II, was reviewed recently by Genoways et al. (2020).  However, the mist net was not the first net to be used for the scientific capture of bats and birds—that was the Italian trammel net.

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