SPMA 1P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Satellite Television, Original Six, Franchising
23 Feb 2017
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Historical aspects of the sport business industry lecture 3 notes- january 19, 2017. Basketball and how it changed over the years. Michael jordan as not only a basketball man but as a businessman as well. People and information could travel overland only as fast as a horse could run. To provide the spectators to buy tickets. To get the athletes to games in a timely fashion. Telegraph lines ran along the railroad tracks . The ability to quickly share information (like game results), reaching an external audience. So fans could follow their teams, and sport promoters could get the word out (via advertisement) Acknowledging sport as a business and an industry that requires management. By the 1870s, key drivers such as urbanization, transport, communication media, were commonplace in the usa. The first of our national american current major professional sport leagues. It was a closed league compared to the english soccer league which was an open league.
