Sports broadcasting - Topics

How did streaming change the number of commercial breaks in a game? What is the difference between a world feed and a unilateral broadcast? Video editors and replay operators: the crew behind a live match broadcast What does a broadcast producer actually do during a live match? How do directors decide which camera angle to cut to during a replay review? Why do streaming broadcasts still lag behind satellite feeds? NBA rivalry games drive ticket prices and national TV slots more than standings do Why do some play-by-play commentators last for decades while others burn out? How much of women's sport revenue now comes from media rights rather than gate receipts? How Thursday Night Football compresses a team's preparation week Why do some leagues still black out local broadcasts? How the NFL splits its broadcast rights across CBS and Fox and NBC How do video review systems reach an officiating decision so quickly? Shortened match formats: do they actually attract new fans? What it takes to call a live NFL game from the booth Why Monday Night Football changed prime-time television Why is water sport so hard to photograph and broadcast well? How has second-screen data changed the way fans watch a match? How did a record attendance change the way women's league fixtures are scheduled? Why do indoor sports slot into broadcast schedules so easily? Where can I watch football highlights the morning after a match? Why the most watched sport is not the most played sport Why do broadcasters use slow motion for some replays and not others? What the first televised NFL game changed about the sport Why do VAR decisions rarely make the football highlights cut? How quickly do football highlights go up after the final whistle? What makes a former player a good football pundit rather than just a loud one? How are the live Premier League packages divided between Sky Sports and TNT Sports? How long should a football highlights package be before viewers lose interest? What gets cut when a ten minute football highlights package squeezes a whole match? How did television change the shape of sport in the 1960s? The Premier League trophy presentation and why the celebration is so tightly scripted