Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Part I Radio
Radio Prologue A. The Newspaper Industry and Boxing; B. The Relationship Between "Fight Films" and Radio 3
Preface 10
Chapter 1 From Fancy to Phenomenon: The Seminal Boxing Broadcasts 13
Chapter 2 Dempsey, Tunney, and the Formation of Radio Networks 30
Chapter 3 The Post-Rickard Era and Madison Square Garden 46
Chapter 4 Louis and the War: A Mike Jacobs Radio Presentation 60
Chapter 5 Inventing an Industry: The Radio Announcers. Part 1 74
Chapter 6 Look Sharp, Feel Sharp: The Radio Announcers, Part 2 86
Chapter 7 The Fighters Take to the Microphone 96
Chapter 8 Don't Touch That Dial: Boxing and the Radio Serial 113
Chapter 9 Tales from Radio Land 124
Epilogue Radio Recordings 131
Part II Television
Preface
Chapter 10 The Era of Experimental and Amateur Television 135
Boxing Leads the Way 137
Chapter 11 Boxing and Television Forge a Golden Age 152
Chapter 12 A Second Frontier: Theater and Closed-Circuit Television 171
Chapter 13 Show Me the Money: The Live Gate vs. Television Money Conundrum 199
Chapter 14 The Rise and Fall of a Boxing Monopoly 225
Chapter 15 The Influence of Organized Crime on Televised Boxing 244
Chapter 16 The Orwellian Reality: A. Keep It Clean… Big Brother Is Watching; B. The Lighter Side of Televised Boxing 263
Chapter 17 What'll Ya Have?: The Announcers and Their Broadcasts 285
Chapter 18 Out of the Ring and onto the Small Screen 302
Chapter 19 Stay Tuned: Boxing and the Television Series 320
Epilogue Kinescope and Video Recordings from Boxing's Golden Age of Television: A Perspective 341
Endnotes 349
Index 402