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Once a shoestring operation built on plywood packages and Australian guidelines basketball, ESPN has improved into a marketing colossus. A genius for cross-promotion and its near-mystical rapport using its viewers enable the network to set agendas and create superstars, to curate activities history even while it mainstreams the latest ethnic tendencies. Travis Vogan clubs archival research and interviews with an all-star cast to pen the definitive account of how ESPN changed Xs and Os into vast amounts of $$$. Vogan's institutional and ethnic history targets the network since 1998, the entire year it launched a high-motor effort to create its brand and grow audiences across marketing platforms. As he shows, progressive properties like SportsCentury, ESPN The Journal, and 30 for 30 built the network's ethnic caché. This trustworthiness, in turn, propelled ESPN's transformation into an entity that lapped its run-of-the-mill competition and helped match its self-proclaimed status as the "worldwide innovator in activities". Ambitious and long overdue, ESPN: The Making of the Sports Press Empire provides an inside take a look at how the network changed a business and reshaped the way we live as activities fans. The e book is printed by University or college of Illinois Press.