ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|18 pages
Before, During, and After the Neoliberal Moment
Media, Sports, Policy, Citizenship
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chapter 3|26 pages
Televised Sport and Cultural Citizenship in Canada
The “Two Solitudes” of Canadian Public Broadcasting?
chapter 6|18 pages
No Longer the Crown Jewels of Sport?
Television, Sport, and National Events in the UK
chapter 7|17 pages
The Law Not Applied
French Controversies about Television Viewer Access to the 2006 European Handball Championship
chapter 9|22 pages
“Events of National Importance and Cultural Significance”
Sport, Television, and the Anti-Siphoning Regime in Australia
chapter 10|21 pages
Millennium Blues
The Politics of Media Policy, Televised Sport, and Cultural Citizenship in New Zealand
chapter 12|22 pages
The Global Popular and the Local Obscure
Televised Sport in Contemporary Singapore
chapter 15|17 pages
Watching the Football with Raymond Williams
A Reconsideration of the Global Game as a “Wonderful Game”
