The American sports television industry has been deeply affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Like the rest of the American television industry, for instance, sports television has had to adapt to a decline in television advertising, with many brands adjusting to economic turbulence by pulling back
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Sports Television and the Continuing Search for Alternative Programming
Branden Buehler
Everyday Things Change: Australian Athlete Communication During the Coronavirus Lockdown
Lewis Whales, Stephen Frawley, Adam Cohen, and Natalia Nikolova
In this commentary paper, we explored the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from the perspective of professional Australian athletes. We discussed the impact that the coronavirus and related competition shutdowns had on athletes with two Suncorp Super Netball (SSN) players, one of whom is a delegate
Talking Baseball When There Is No Baseball: Reporters and Fans During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alexander L. Curry and Tiara Good
hold” (March 19). The virus frame first appeared on March 9—“Virus delays start of Japan pro baseball league”—and persists throughout the remainder of our data set, with the word “coronavirus” or “virus” in 29 headlines during this time period. That March 9 headline referenced the virus’ impact on
The Fractured Messaging of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Its Members in Response to COVID-19
Timothy Mirabito, Robin Hardin, and Joshua R. Pate
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the faces of the White House Coronavirus Task Force charged with spearheading the United States’ response to COVID-19, said in an interview on April 15, 2020, that he believed sports could return in
Fake News Travels Fast: Exploring Misinformation Circulated Around Wu Lei’s Coronavirus Case
Bo Li and Olan Scott
coronavirus. During the coronavirus crisis, both the virus and misinformation spread widely in China. Fake news created confusion for people and also shaped people’s perceptions of this pandemic. Some fake news stories provided incorrect health information; one such example was that consuming alcohol could
Gendering the Coronavirus Pandemic: Toward a Framework of Interdependence for Sport
Madeleine Pape and Fiona McLachlan
and for good reasons ( Cooky, Messner, & Musto, 2015 ; Hargreaves, 1994 ). In this essay, however, we want to consider a different analytical strategy. Specifically, we take the Coronavirus pandemic as a moment to consider how the ideology of dependence inhibits women’s place in sport, with a
Football Without Football: Creativity in German Football Coverage by TV Broadcasters and Clubs During the Coronavirus Crisis
Christiana Schallhorn and Jessica Kunert
No More Football: What Now? Everything was well in Germany’s world of sport at the beginning of March 2020: football [soccer] stadiums were full of spectators, and any change from the regularly scheduled programming was unimaginable, even unthinkable. Only a few days later, the Coronavirus dictated
Volume 13 (2020): Issue 3 (Sep 2020): Special Issue: Sport and the Coronavirus Crisis
IJSC International Journal of Sport Communication 1936-3915 1936-3907 1 09 2020 13 3 10.1123/ijsc.2020.13.issue-3 Special Issue: Sport and the Coronavirus Crisis Guest Editors: Brody J. Ruihley and Bo Li INTRODUCTION 10.1123/ijsc.2020-0254 INDUSTRY INTERVIEWS 10.1123/ijsc.2020-0116 10.1123/ijsc
The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on a Major Event Legacy: The 2020 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men’s Basketball Final Four
Beth A. Cianfrone and Timothy Kellison
,000 volunteers to host the events in multiple private and public facilities, including Mercedes-Benz Stadium, State Farm Arena, the Georgia World Congress Center, and Centennial Olympic Park. Due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), NCAA President Mark Emmert announced on March 11 that the Final Four events
Sport and the Coronavirus Crisis Special Issue: An Introduction
Brody J. Ruihley and Bo Li
The world experienced a tremendous amount of challenges and change during the year 2020. Having been first reported on December 31, 2019, a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV or COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), entered the global landscape, altering the daily lives of nearly