Sport on Television

Advantages

  • Broadcasts instantaneous sporting action to a large audience.
  • Cheap to film compared with dramas etc. Hence features heavily on TV schedules particularly at weekends.
  • Has brought minority sports to the fore
  • Helps participants reach superstar status
  • Raised performers earnings
  • Provides role models
  • Developed academic qualifications, sports science, books, journals and videos.

Disadvantages

  • Places athletes under pressure to perform more regularly than is good for them
  • Players become public figures where their every move is scrutinised
  • Over dramatises problems in sports world
  • Sensationalism sells papers
  • Focus is often on the critical element of sport e.g. a violent incident or a challenge to the ref
  • Deals between sporting bodies and the media can favour certain sports e.g. Adidas and FIFA
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