Thanks mate. Will see if I can get hold of a few of them through Uni. library.

if you want to include australia, talking about how a media company took over rugby league to control the TV rights is massive.

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Indeed. I wrote a sociology essay based on TV and media in sport, and used the Super League War as an example of how bad things can get when TV companies start splashing their cash around for the top products in world sport.

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Thank you to all those people who have responded so far!

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like chico tell me to p!ss off if you like, but i covered a similar subject a few years back



a lot of this recent stuff followed what happened in australian cricket. look up Kerry Packer and some of his dealings. he was the one who went to war with rupert murdoch in the super league wars



if your covering media in football look at deloites report for richest clubs in europe (summary report is free to download) and compare this to how tv money is distribtued in eahc nation. compare that to spending etc



also try:



‘The Political Economy of Sport’, Edited by J. Nauright and K.S. Schimmel



Gerrard, B. (2005), ‘Media Ownership of Teams: The Latest Stage in the Commercialization of Team Sports’, from ‘The Commercialization of Sport’, Edited by Slack, T., Routledge, Great Britain



Conn, D. (1999), ‘The New Commercialism’, from ‘The Business of Football: A Game of Two Halves?’, Edited by Hamil, S.J., Michie, J. & Oughton, C., Mainstream Publishing Company, Edinburgh

I've just bought that [iThe Business of Football[/i book off Amazon. Thanks for all the info though guys. Greatly appreciated.