Live Television: Time, Space and the Broadcast Event

In a fragmenting, multichannel and multiplatform global broadcasting environment, live television continues to attract huge audiences, yet little of a comprehensive nature has been written about the live television event.

This book situates the live television event in the context of an expanding and increasingly complex global communicative framework. Building her argument with a series of case studies of events as diverse as the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, the 2005 London bombings, election night coverage and live sports coverage, Marriott provides a meticulous and articulate account of the way in which live television mediates the event for its audience.

Live Television will be essential reading for students and academics working in media, cultural studies, sociology, geography, linguistics and sports studies.

About the Author:
Stephanie Marriott is a lecturer in the Department of Film, Media & Journalism at the University of Stirling