Paper 2 - Media, Sponsorship and commercialisation Flashcards
What is commercialisation?
The management and exploitation of a person, organisation or activity in a way designed to make profit.
What is the media?
A diverse range of technologies that act as a means of mass communication.
What are some examples of media?
Broadcast
Internet/ social
Print
Outdoor
What are some examples of broadcast media?
Television - live
Radio - digital radios are portable so it’s possible to listen to live commentary when you are on the move or even while you’re at the event.
What are some examples of internet and social media?
Google, snapchat, facebook, instagram, twitter, YouTube
Can provide up to the minute information on sporting stories.
What are some examples of print media?
Newspapers - have dedicated sports pages.
Magazines - specific one just for sports, or dedicated pages.
What are some examples of outdoor media?
Billboards - at sporting events are used to advertise products and services to a large audience.
What is a sponsor?
An individual or group, usually a company, that provides financial or other forms of support to an event, person or organisation.
What is a sponsorship?
Provision of funds or other forms of support to an event, activity, person or organisation in return for some kind of commercial return.
What are the different types of sponsorship?
- Financial - sponsors can help pay for some or all of your day-to-day living, training and competition costs. In return the sponsors name is linked to the performer some how.
- Clothing, equipment - companies that make sports clothing/equipment give their products to performers to wear/use while they play.
Companies pay for their logos to appear on clothes/equipment they use while performing. - Facilities - sponsored facilities are often named after the sponsor, and can include basic training facilities sponsored by local companies, to stadiums sponsored by global companies.
What are the positive impacts of sponsorship/media on performers?
More money to pay higher wages.
Can become heroes/roel models.
More money for better coaching and training programmes.
More money available to pay for new technologically advanced kit, equipment and facilities, or it might be free.
What are the negative impacts of sponsorship/media on performers?
- Increase the pressure and reduce their enjoyment.
- Mistakes become very public.
- Sponsors can make demands about how a performer should behave, which can conflict with what they want to do or others. Distrust training.
- Performers have to maintain their appeal to sponsors and media. Distract them from training.
- Media wants to know their private lives, especially women, instead of sports.
- More comps = more training = injury.
- Women are paid less than men, largely because, to date, commercialisation has focused on men.
What are the positive impacts of sponsorship/media on officials?
Being in the media spotlight can turn officials into heroes and role models.
The more money there is in the sport, the more professional and the role of the official becomes, and the more likely it is that a career path will develop.
What are the negative impacts of sponsorship/media on officials?
A strong media presence can increase the pressure to make the right decision and thus reduce reduce the officials enjoyment.
Being in the media spotlight can mean that the mistakes officials make can become very public.
What are the positive impacts of sponsorship/media on sport?
- Increase in interest in sports that attract media attention, increasing grass-roots participation.
- There is more money available to support grass-roots participation.
- There is more money to pay for kits, equipment, facilities, coaches and players. (May even be free).
- Prize funds and rewards for winning are bigger.
- More competitions.
- More role models, who are ambassadors for the sports, are created.