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- Title
A Case-Study Analysis of NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament Broadcasts: Educational or Commercial Activity?
- Authors
Southall, Richard M.; Nagel, Mark S.
- Abstract
Over the past few years the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I women's basketball tournament has drawn larger crowds, generated increased television ratings, and attracted higher levels of advertising spending. Division I women's basketball is now viewed as the women's "revenue" sport. In light of the limited analysis of the organizational conditions that frame college-sport broadcast production, this case study examines the impact of influential actors on the representation process of big-time college-basketball telecasts. Using a mixed-method approach, this article investigates production conditions and processes involved in producing women's basketball tournament broadcasts, examines the extent to which these broadcasts are consistent with the NCAA's educational mission, and considers the dominant institutional logic that underpins their reproduction. In so doing, this case study provides a critical examination of women's basketball tournament broadcasts and how such broadcasts constitute, and are constituted by, choices in television production structures and practices.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Collegiate Athletic Association; WOMEN'S basketball; COLLEGE basketball; TELEVISION; RATING; ADVERTISING
- Publication
International Journal of Sport Communication, 2008, Vol 1, Issue 4, p516
- ISSN
1936-3915
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/ijsc.1.4.516