Sports Media, 2nd Edition

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If you took an economics class at school, you know about the basic laws of supply and demand. As the supply of any product rises above demand, there is a “surplus” and the price charged for the product drops accordingly. The same situation applies in the world of sports media. Every year there is a tremendous “supply” of eager college graduates looking to make their mark in the business. Think of how many people just at your school alone are interested in sports and then multiply that by thousands of colleges, universities, and trade schools all across the country. According to a report in the American Journalism Review, more than one-half of all the males surveyed at three major broadcast journalism schools (Syracuse University, ...