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Used in reference to the Tennis match between Billie Jean King (Woman) and Bobby Riggs (Man). - CORRECT ANSWER "Battle of the Sexes" Between sports and TV Sports helped TV far more than TV assisted sports b/c few Americans owned TV sets - CORRECT ANSWER Symbiosis, Symbiotic Relationship American sports and news broadcasting pioneer Genius for dramatic story lines President of ABC sports from 1968 to 1986 President of ABC news from 1977 to 1998. Key part of the company's (ABC) rise to competition with two other main television networks (NBC and CBS) in the '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s. Created many programs still airing tonight such as Monday Night Football, ABC World News Tonight, Primetime, Nightline and 20/20 - CORRECT ANSWER Roone Arledge, Jr. An American TV sports journalist. Is best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports - CORRECT ANSWER Jim McKay An American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. In 1973, at the age of 29, she won the so-called Battle of the Sexes match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs Bobby Riggs - CORRECT ANSWER Billie Jean King An American tennis player who lost to Billie Jean King in the Battle of the Sexes Match - CORRECT ANSWER Bobby Riggs TFM FINAL 2024 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS ALREADY PASSED AND VERIFIED What is meant by the relationship between sports and television being a symbiotic relationship? - CORRECT ANSWER Both have derived enormous benefits from the other. Both have been around for most of the last hundred years. The world of sports has helped to grow the business of television, while TV has enabled sporting ventures, worldwide, to become high-end family entertainment. By the end of the 1950s, what happened to sports programming, and where during the weekly programming schedule did they find their place? What were the factors mentioned in the text that contributed to this change in programming? - CORRECT ANSWER Other genres began to mature and develop their own loyal audience, most of which were women. Sports disappeared from prime time television, settling into a very profitable and successful weekend niche. the 1940s and 1950s in what ways did sports impact television? - CORRECT ANSWER During this era, sports fans became TV set owners and no sport had a larger following than baseball. Putting baseball on TV not only attracted more ad dollars, it actually lured more viewers to the medium itself. Televised games became a tool by the networks to get fans to buy more sets than tickets. In what ways did the growth of suburban living impact the audience for televised sports? - CORRECT ANSWER As the population began moving away from the urban hubs of America and into suburban tract homes, it became more difficult for families to attend sporting events and easier to watch them on tv. - Television found itself needing more sports programming to satisfy the new, heavily male, 18-49 demographic. TFM FINAL 2024 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS ALREADY PASSED AND VERIFIED Why had CBS and NBC rejected the idea of prime time football, notably Monday Night Football? - CORRECT ANSWER They felt they could never capture the "entertainment" audience needed to consistently win that night's primetime TV rating. Which successful sports series is associated with: "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat"? Which network broadcast the series? - CORRECT ANSWER ABC Wide World of Sports What production innovations had Roone Arledge incorporated into his sports programming at ABC Sports that delivered what Roone promised in a memo: to bring fans to the game; to make them feel like they'd actually been there to see it? - CORRECT ANSWER He had a genius for dramatic story lines that unfolded during the course of the game/event. Gave the show an emotional appeal that attracted viewers who might not otherwise have watched a sporting event. He was also credited with introducing techniques such as slow motion, freeze frame, instant replay and split screen, to make the sporting events seem more real to the viewers. As if they were actually playing the sporting event themselves. Who was the master at putting the cameras inside the sporting events? - CORRECT ANSWER Roone Arledge What was considered television's finest hour, covered by ABC Sports? - CORRECT ANSWER what some historians still hail as television's finest hour, executive producer Roone Arledge, director Don Ohlmeyer, announcer Jim McKay, and ABC Sports dedicated every available television resource to cover the terrorist take-over of the Israeli compound in the Olympic Village. Early morning September 5, 1972, a group of eight