ABSTRACT
“The Sports Media Ecosystem: Sports TV’s Out-of-Home Communities” examines sports’ intimate, affective and social, communal significance in everyday U.S. life, particularly in the contemporary context of the “sportification” of place. Focusing on out-of-home sports television viewing in the form of closed-circuit exhibition, pub and sports bar viewing, and the phenomenon of the urban sports district, the chapter analyzes public sports TV’s encouragement of shared ideals of community and creation of a sense of home for fans in transitory times.
