ABC Sports. Travis Vogan

ABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company&#39;s sports division is behind some of network television&#39;s most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and iconic moments. It created the weekend anthology <I>Wide World of Sports</I>, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle with <I>Monday Night Football</I>, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. Travis Vogan&#39;s cultural and institutional history of ABC Sports examines the development of network sports television in the United States and the aesthetic, cultural, political, and industrial practices that mark it. <I>ABC Sports </I>traces the storied division from its beginnings through the internet age to reveal the changes it endured along with the new sports media environment it spawned.&#160;