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This book examines the political debates over the access to live
telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the
broad theoretical debates, political positions and policy
calculations over the provision of live, free-to-air telecasts of
sport as a right of cultural citizenship. In so doing, the book
provides a number of comparative case studies that explore these
debates and issues in various global spaces.
This volume charts the debates over the provision of free-to-air
telecasts of sport as a right of cultural citizenship, analyzing
the complex economic, political, and sociological questions
surrounding the increasingly tenuous ability of public broadcasters
to compete for the broadcasting rights to the most popular and
desirable sports and sporting events. Through comparative case
studies, the contributors to this edited volume explore these
issues in various locales across the globe.
When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in
September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of
manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the
project. Working with documentary evidence and original interviews,
the authors present an absorbing account of the machinations that
got the arena and the adjacent Ice District built, with a price tag
of more than $600 million. The arena deal, they argue, established
a costly public financing precedent that people across North
America should watch closely, as many cities consider building
sports facilities for professional teams or international
competitions. Their analysis brings clarity and nuance to a case
shrouded in secrecy and understood by few besides political and
business insiders. Power Play tells a dramatic story about clashing
priorities where sports, money, and municipal power meet.
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