Publisher |
Azzurri Publishing |
Publication Year |
2016 |
ISBN-13 |
9780996729826 |
ISBN-10 |
9780996729826 |
Binding |
Paperback |
Number of Pages |
182 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Weight (grms) |
230 |
ESPN collects hundreds of millions of dollars in rights fees from cable subscribers, before selling a single advertisement.
In The Game to Show the Games, Morgan Wick exposes how this lucrative revenue stream and the competition between media conglomerates has become a billion-dollar boon for sports leagues across the nation and the world, and how this has shaken up the rest of the television industry
Eamonn Butler
Eamonn Butler is director of the Adam Smith Institute, rated one of the world's leading policy think-tanks. He has degrees in economics, philosophy and psychology, gaining a PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1978. During the 1970s he worked on pensions and welfare issues for the US House of Representatives, and taught philosophy in Hillsdale College, Michigan, before returning to the UK to help found the Adam Smith Institute. Eamonn is author of books on the pioneering economists F A Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Adam Smith. He is also co-author of Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls, and of a series of books on intelligence testing. Eamonn contributes to the leading UK print and broadcast media on current issues, and his recent popular books The Best Book on the Market, The Rotten State of Britain and The Alternative Manifesto have attracted considerable attention.
Eamonn Butler
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