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Evolutionof the sports and entertainment marketing industry

By joel9642
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Introduction of outdoor entertainment (music, dancing, bowling)

  • Introduction of outdoor entertainment (music, dancing, bowling)

  • fans paid to attend a baseball game

    fans paid to attend a baseball game

  • (NCAA) was officially formed to govern collegiate athletics.

  • Development of recording of sound on motion picture film.

  • First commercial radio stations with regularly scheduled broadcasts

  • RCA established the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

  • Farnsworth transmits first electronic television picture; receives patent.

  • The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is founded

  • Great Depression closing nearly three-fourths of amusement parks.

  • Lou Gehrig appeared on a Wheaties box.

  • First television is sold

  • All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed

  • Televisions are in over one million homes

  • Babe Didrickson Zaharias signs endorsement contract for $100,000

  • Color television is introduced.

  • Disneyland in Anaheim, California opens costing $17 million

  • Over 100 million television sets are in homes around the world.

  • Phil Knight opens Blue Ribbon Sports.

  • The Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World in Orlando opens

  • equal access to educational opportunities for men and women

  • naming rights to the buffalo bills stadium $60,000/a year

  • US boycotts the Summer Olympics in Moscow

  • Prince Charles and Diana Spencer are married on television

  • First IBM Personal Computers are available for retail sales

  • MTV debuts

  • Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” sells 20 million albums

  • First compact disc is released

  • The Olympics becomes commercialized

  • Nintendo home entertainment system is introduced

  • Time and Warner merge to become Time Warner Inc

  • First television program delivered via the Internet (webcast)

  • Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA is bombed.

  • Princess Diana is killed in an automobile accident