Tuning in to football on the BBC World Service

Wyllie, James; Woodward, Kath and Goldblatt, David (2011). Tuning in to football on the BBC World Service. Soccer & Society, 12(1) pp. 11–20.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2011.530455

Abstract

This article ises the archive as object to explore the politics of sport broadcasting and the particularities of the BBC World Service. The BBC World Service is a contact zone in which the different dimensions of football intersect, throught he interrelationships between the regulating bodies such as the FA, the BBC and in particular the World Service with its own histories, the listeners and supporters, the journalists and players. Football broadcasting demonstrates some of the specificities of the sport and its diasporic audiences

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• Item ORO ID
• 25967
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1743-9590
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Tuning in: Diasporic Contact Zones at the BBC World Service	AH/E508693/1	AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council)

• Keywords
• BBC World Service; archive; football; FA; politics of sports broadcasting; live sport
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Sociology
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2011 Taylor & Francis
• Depositing User
• Kath Woodward