Sport on Television

Topic Areas for 2010

Sport on Television

TV Sport covers a wide range of television genres from Live coverage of sporting events Results programmes Sports News Sports talk Specialist Sports channels Sports documentary Sports Quiz

Live Sport Studio Sport

Technical codes and conventions

Live broadcast Cameras Editing Slow mo’s, replays Sound Symbolic codes Presenters Mise en scene Narratives

Studio camera techniques Studio editing Presenters Interviewees Sports Stars Audience participation The studio set The segments Narratives Edited features, highlights Music

TV Sport and Representations

TV Sport and gender - sports stars/ sports presenters

Tv Sport and Representations of Nation Representations of Britain, of Wales, England,

Scotland, Northern Ireland Representations of class Representations of age.

TV Sport and Organisations

TV Sport- Marketing and Promotion Cross Media synergies TV Sport and the converging media TV sport and scheduling TV sport and competition between TV

organisationsThe distinctiveness of TV organisations through

Sport BBC, ITV, Sky

TV Sport and Audiences

Everyday uses and pleasures of sport on TVWhen to watch sport? Weekends, midweek match, Sport 24

Audience appeal and sportSport and National identity, the drama of sport, Sports stars

Target audiences and fansNational identity, regions vs. nations, spots fans, clubs, gender, ethnicity

Reception and influence and Sport. Group loyalties, imitation, violence

TV Sport and Audiences

Information finding out about relevant events and conditions in immediate surroundings, society and the world seeking advice on practical matters or opinion and decision choices satisfying curiosity and general interest learning; self-education gaining a sense of security through knowledge

Personal Identity finding reinforcement for personal valuesfinding models of behaviouridentifying with valued other (in the media) gaining insight into one's self

(McQuail 1987: 73)

Uses & Gratifications Theory

TV Sport and Audiences

Integration and Social Interaction gaining insight into circumstances of others; social empathy identifying with others and gaining a sense of belonging finding a basis for conversation and social interaction having a substitute for real-life companionship helping to carry out social roles enabling one to connect with family, friends and society

Entertainment escaping, or being diverted, from problems relaxing getting intrinsic cultural or aesthetic enjoyment filling time emotional release sexual arousal

(McQuail 1987: 73)

Uses & Gratifications Theory

Analysing Euro 2008

Genre Trailer for BBC TV Sport Football Technical codes Vox pop interview style inter cut with

edited cameos of football stars, teams and fans intertextuality with documentary /reality style

Camerawork Close ups of fans and stars, action footage, medium shot, long shot crane shot of action from a variety of viewpoints

Editing, quick cutting of wide range of different players, stars, fans

Sound. Diegetic dialogue, fans, non diegetic fans music, voiceover

Analysing Euro 2008

Symbolic codes Dress, body language,. Gesture Of fans of sports stars Colour codes, rather drab British working class fans juxtaposed

with colourful European stars and fans Settings working class British settings with Euro football grounds Typograhic codes at end of clip Euro style font in sans serif lower

case hand drawn Split screen montage effect of all contibutors reflect multi Euro

nations and excitement expectations of coming events

Analysing Euro 2008

Narratives Who will you support? Ordinary fans expectations of event through talented

European stars many of whom are very familiar through fans and club loyalties

Small nations against big nations Heroes and villains Representations Brit working class fans and regions

juxtaposed against glamourous European fans and stars.

Euro 2008 and TV organisations

BBC trailer BBC and Sport and Soccer BBC as national broadcaster/ Euro broadcaster Representing British views Working class voice of the people/fans Regional identities Key feature of summer schedule BBC Sports presenters Lineker, Hanson, Shearer

Euro 2008 and audiences

Summer schedules Summer evenings lacks the appeals of English, Welsh or Scots, n Irish, Irish involvement

For hardened soccer fans Star appeals of Renaldo Continental appeals, colourful, Fiesta, Spanish,

Portuguese.