1. Sport, public service media, and cultural citizenship / Jay Scherer and David Rowe -- 2. Before, during, and after the neoliberal moment : media, sports, policy, citizenship / Toby Miller -- 3. Televised sport and cultural citizenship in Canada : the "two solitudes" of Canadian public broadcasting? / Jay Scherer and Jean Harvey -- 4. Selling out : the gaming of the living room seat for the US sports fan / Lawrence A. Wenner, Robert V. Bellamy, and James R. Walker -- 5. Football for everyone? Soccer, television, and politics in Argentina / Pablo Alabarces and Carolina Duek -- 6. No longer the crown jewels of sport? Television, sport, and national events in the UK / Raymond Boyle -- 7. The law not applied : French controversies about television viewer access to the 2006 European Handball Championship / Fabien Ohl and Lucie Schoch -- 8. Belgium's "list of major events" mechanism in the digital broadcasting era / Katrien Lefever -- 9. "Events of national importance and cultural significance" : sport, television, and the anti-siphoning regime in Australia / David Rowe -- 10. Millennium blues : the politics of media policy, televised sport, and cultural citizenship in New Zealand / Jay Scherer, Michael Sam, and Steven J. Jackson -- 11. The political economy of sport broadcasting in the Arab world / Mahfoud Amara -- 12. The global popular and the local obscure : televised sport in contemporary Singapore / Callum Gilmour -- 13. Sport, broadcasting, and cultural citizenship in Japan / Donna Wong, Isamu Kuroda, and John Horne -- 14. The political economy of football viewership in Africa / Muhammed Musa -- 15. Watching the football with Raymond Williams : a reconsideration of the global game as a "wonderful game" / John Hughson -- 16. Afterword : sport, public service media, and a "red button" future / David Rowe and Jay Scherer. |