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125-677: As assistant coach: Michael Robert " the Czar " Fratello (born February 24, 1947) is an American sports broadcaster and former professional basketball coach. He is currently a part-time analyst for Bally Sports Ohio for the Cleveland Cavaliers and a part-time color commentator for Bally Sports SoCal for the Los Angeles Clippers . Fratello previously coached the Atlanta Hawks , Cleveland Cavaliers , and Memphis Grizzlies of
250-497: A sportscast ) is the live coverage of sports as a television program , on radio , and other broadcasting media. It usually involves one and more sports commentators describing events as they happen. The broadcasting of sports events (also known as a sportscast ) is the live coverage of sports as a television program , on radio , and other broadcasting media. It usually involves one or more sports commentators describing events as they happen. Sportscaster's environment
375-665: A 20% viewing share in Italy, Serbia 's game against Nigeria netting a 33% share in Serbia, and a 600,000-audience in the United States for the US national team 's game against Puerto Rico at 1 am. Before the 2010 FIBA World Championship started in Turkey, FIBA had already sold 350,000 tickets, for a revenue of between US$ 8 to 10 million. The number of tickets sold was 10% higher than 2006, although
500-449: A MW opt-out on BBC Radio 2 , The launch of Radio 5 in 1990 saw a huge increase in the level of coverage on BBC Radio. Radio 5 became BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994 and the station, which combines live news and sport, provides round-the-clock coverage of sport through both live commentary and sports news and discussion. Live cricket commentary is broadcast on 5 Live's digital sports channel BBC 5 Sports Extra. This includes cricket coverage which
625-460: A basic cable channel, it had developed a stable of sports broadcasts ranging from major leagues to oddities. ESPN has since grown into a massive multiplexed network, with several channels and a large news bureau that has led to the network bestowing the title of "Worldwide Leader in Sports" upon itself. Cable, and later digital cable and satellite, greatly expanded the number of channels (and, by extension,
750-508: A consolidated case, also noting that the constitutional basis for such a law had not been proven. No such laws have been passed since. Since then, sports have been a lucrative source of revenue in the U.S. pay television industry, including mainstream networks such as ESPN , as well as channels devoted to specific sports, leagues, and college sports conferences. These networks receive revenue from both advertising and carriage fees charged to television providers (and passed onto consumers as part of
875-428: A few companies provide the service. In 1911, more than 1,000 people gathered in downtown Lawrence, Kansas to watch a mechanical reproduction of the 1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game while it was being played. A Western Union telegraph wire was set up direct from Columbia, Missouri . A group of people then would announce the results of the previous play and used a large model of a football playing field to show
1000-640: A field sport anywhere in Europe was when Paddy Mehigan covered the All-Ireland Hurling Semi-Final between Kilkenny and Galway on 29 August 1926. This game is credited with being the first mainly because the BBC was prevented from broadcasting sporting events before 7.00pm as a means of protecting British newspaper sales. Originally there was no sports department for Irish radio. Gaelic Games and live commentary were very popular with Irish radio. One prominent figure
1125-570: A fixture of Canadian television since the CBC's debut in 1952. From 1962 (one year after the debut of CTV ) through 2007, there were two separate CFL contracts: one for CBC, and one for CTV (or a sister channel such as cable outlet TSN ). Terrestrial television broadcasts of CFL games ended in 2008, when TSN acquired exclusive TV rights to the league. American sports broadcasts are widely available in Canada, both from Canadian stations and from border blasters in
1250-461: A four-team knockout tournament to determine the medalists. The 2002 tournament expanded the knockout round to eight teams. In 2006 , FIBA made the decision to expand back to 24 teams and introduced the format that was in place through 2014 . Under that format, the teams were divided into four preliminary round groups of six teams each. The top 4 teams in each group then advanced to the Round of 16 in
1375-465: A joint venture between former national telecommunications monopoly BT Group and Warner Bros. Discovery . There is also a dedicated UK version of Eurosport , called British Eurosport, and Viaplay Sports , which replaced Premier Sports in 2022, also broadcasts live and recorded sports coverage. National and local media both serve major roles in broadcasting sports in the United States . Depending on
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#17328585902731500-460: A locally broadcast high school football game can be heard worldwide on any device with an audio output and an Internet connection. Individual leagues (including major ones) all have subscription services that allow subscribers to watch their sporting events for a fee. One of the first live sporting events in the U.S. to be streamed was the Ohio State spring football game in 2001 by WBNS-TV . The game
1625-421: A reputation for carrying a large number of college football bowl games in an era when televised college football was highly restricted. Modern syndication networks still exist for sporting events, such as Raycom Sports and American Sports Network , both of which specialize in college sports. The debut of ESPN in 1979 revolutionized the broadcasting of sports events. Within several years of ESPN's founding as
1750-435: A result in that group, and each plays the 2 teams from the other group. The top 2 teams in each of 4 second-round groups then advance to the quarterfinals in the final, single-elimination round. In that final round, the semifinal losers play in the bronze medal game, while the quarterfinal losers play in a consolation bracket to determine fifth through eighth places. Since 1967 , the champion of each tournament has been awarded
1875-526: A single Asia-Pacific qualifying zone. In each qualifying zone, nations are divided into Division A and Division B, with promotion and relegation between the two. FIBA did not initially reveal full details of the new process, but announced that at least in opening phases, it would feature groups of three or four teams, playing home-and-away within the group. Below is the list of distribution of berths according to each FIBA qualifying zone. The Basketball World Cup has existed in several different formats throughout
2000-430: A single-elimination knockout round. In 2019 , the final tournament expanded to 32 teams. If the teams should be tied at the end of the preliminary round, the ties are broken by the following criteria in order: The top two teams in each group then advance to a second group-stage round, formed by the top 2 teams from pairs of first-round groups; the match between teams coming from each first-round group carries over as
2125-612: A tournament in 1950 . Argentina was selected as host, largely because it was the only country willing to take on the task. Argentina took advantage of the host selection, winning all their games en route to becoming the first FIBA World Champion. The first five tournaments were held in South America , and teams from the Americas dominated the tournament, winning eight of nine medals at the first three tournaments. By 1963 , however, teams from Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe —
2250-400: Is a big industry throughout the United States and worldwide. Anything sports related, whether it's reading, watching, and hearing is a type of way sports broadcasting is in media. Sports broadcasters do more than just voice over plays and matches, they must be a part of researching their sports history and knowing game statistics. Studying sports and using facts is needed in their job and making
2375-724: Is a partnership between the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles . The Longhorn Network , in which ESPN owned a stake, was even more specialized, designed as an outlet for the athletic program of the University of Texas at Austin (although it has also aired football games of the UT system's San Antonio campus ). Team-owned channels are also common in Europe, most notably Barça TV , Benfica TV , Galatasaray TV , Manchester United TV , Liverpool TV and Real Madrid TV . FIBA World Cup The FIBA Basketball World Cup
2500-481: Is also aired on the long wave frequencies of BBC Radio 4. BBC Local Radio provides extensive coverage of sport, giving more exposure to second-tier football clubs which would otherwise receive limited national coverage. The BBC's main commercial rival is Talksport , but this has not acquired anywhere near as many exclusive contracts as Sky Sports and instead dedicates much of its airtime to sports discussions and phone-ins. The first sporting event to be televised in
2625-609: Is also broadcast on terrestrial TV in Canada, while the CFL no longer is (the CFL is broadcast only on cable in the United States); the simultaneous substitution benefits are not extended to cable stations. For the purposes of regional sports broadcasting , the Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto Raptors both claim all of Canada as their "territory", allowing Blue Jays and Raptors games to be broadcast nationwide. The first live commentary on
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#17328585902732750-541: Is an international basketball competition between the senior men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport's global governing body. It takes place every four years and is considered the flagship event of FIBA. From its inception in 1950 until 2010, the tournament was known as the FIBA World Championship . The tournament structure
2875-539: Is available on a delay to a free-to-air broadcaster. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission attempted to introduce similar restrictions on cable broadcasts of specific sporting events and recent films as to not cannibalize broadcast TV. In 1977, these restrictions were deemed to be invalid when a federal district court ruled that the FCC did not have the authority to make such decisions in
3000-604: Is similar, but not identical, to that of the FIFA World Cup ; the current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and the FIFA World Cup were played in the same year as each other from 1970 through 2014. A parallel event for women's teams, now known as the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup , is also held quadrennially. From 1986 through 2014,
3125-453: Is the runaway all-time leading scorer , scoring 906 career points in four tournaments between 1978 and 1990 . Nikos Galis of Greece is the all-time leading scorer for a single tournament, averaging 33.7 points per game for the Greeks at the 1986 FIBA World Championship . Serbian coach and former player Željko Obradović is the only person who won the title both as a coach and a player. He
3250-435: Is usually in booth, sets, and radio and television studios. Depending on the sportscasters specific job it is a time sensitive job, especially when depending on a play by play, they cannot miss any action, and due to their job they have to be flexible with schedule. Sports broadcasters have a variety of sections to deliver footage and their job can provide postgame coverage and interviews with athletes and coaches. Sports casting
3375-586: The 1958 NFL Championship and the later establishment of the American Football League in 1960. Monday Night Football , NFL on Fox , and NBC Sunday Night Football have changed the landscape of American football broadcasts, including the scheduling of the Super Bowl , transforming it from an afternoon broadcast into a primetime spectacle. The price for the NFL's broadcast rights has increased steadily over
3500-515: The 1990 FIBA World Championship , when the tournament started taking qualifiers from the newly redesigned FIBA Americas Championship rather than from North, Central, and South America individually. After the tournament expanded to 24 teams in 2006 , the tournament allocated qualification as follows: Each of the five continental championships also served as qualification for the Olympics, so all were held every two years. The year immediately preceding
3625-557: The 1990–91 NBA season as the main announcing team for the NBA on NBC . Starting with the 2008–09 NBA season Fratello also began working with Marv Albert doing New Jersey Nets games on the YES Network . During his stint as a color commentator, Marv Albert dubbed him "The Czar of the Telestrator " for his masterful way of diagramming basketball plays on screen. From 2002 to 2004, Fratello
3750-507: The 1998–99 NBA lockout prevented NBA players from participating. The new Yugoslavian team, now consisting of the former Yugoslav republics of Serbia and Montenegro , won the gold medal over Russia, while the USA, with professional basketball players playing in Europe and two college players, finished third. In 2002 , other nations caught up to the four powerhouse countries and their successor states. FR Yugoslavia , led by Peja Stojaković of
3875-501: The 2002 tournament , Spain's Pau Gasol at the 2006 tournament , Kevin Durant for the United States at the 2010 tournament , Kyrie Irving for the United States at the 2014 tournament , Spain's Ricky Rubio at the 2019 tournament and Germany's Dennis Schröder at the 2023 tournament . The only exception was Dejan Bodiroga of FR Yugoslavia , who was the MVP of the 1998 tournament , when
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4000-430: The 2010 FIBA World Championship final, the USA defeated Turkey and won gold for the first time in 16 years, while Lithuania beat Serbia and won bronze. The next time around, the United States became the third country to defend the championship, winning against Serbia at the 2014 edition of the tournament. France beat Lithuania in the bronze medal game. After the 2014 edition, FIBA instituted significant changes to
4125-560: The Arab world . The Basketball World Cup has used various forms of qualification throughfive tournaments were held in South America and participation was dominated by teams from the Americas. At the first tournament, FIBA intended for the three Olympic medalists to compete, plus the host Argentina and two teams each from Europe, Asia, and South America. However, no Asian team was willing to travel to
4250-669: The BBC on 29 March 1926, a British featherweight title defence by Johnny Curley , and 6 October 1927, when Teddy Baldock lost his claim to the British version of the World bantamweight title to South African Willie Smith. The first outdoor sports event broadcast in the United Kingdom was a Rugby Union international between England and Wales , broadcast from Twickenham in January 1927. Two weeks later
4375-724: The Dominican Republic . The TV ratings in the United States beat out the 2014 US Tennis Open , but some US sports media still described viewers in the US as not caring about the FIBA Basketball World Cup. In the Philippines, the entire tournament had an average reach of 67.8%. According to FIBA, the TV audience for the 2019 tournament reached 3 billion, with a further 1.5 billion views on social media. A total of 160 million people around
4500-572: The European Commission disapproved of. Following warnings of legal action to stop the monopoly, an announcement was made that an alternative structure would be in place when the contract ended in 2007. In the United States , team sports are broadcast by networks usually only in "game of the week" or championship situations, except for the NFL (see NFL on television ) and motorsport. Other sports are broadcast by sports channels , and are limited by who can view them based on various rules set by
4625-803: The FIFA World Cup , Summer Olympic Games , Cricket World Cup , UEFA Champions League , UEFA European Championship , FA Cup , Tour de France , Rugby World Cup (rugby union), State Of Origin (rugby league), Indian Premier League , Wimbledon , NBA Finals , Stanley Cup , Super Bowl , World Series , and the FIA Formula One World Championship. TV Rights of the UEFA Champions League, per country. Season 2009-2010 , according to FootBiz. In some countries, broadcast regulations referred to as " anti-siphoning laws " exist in order to ensure that coverage of major sporting events of national importance—often covering major events such as
4750-459: The Naismith Trophy , named in honor of basketball's inventor, James Naismith . A trophy had been planned since the first World Championship in 1950 , but did not come to fruition until FIBA finally commissioned a trophy in 1965, after receiving a US$ 1,000 donation. The original trophy was used from 1967 through 1994 . An updated trophy was introduced for the 1998 FIBA World Championship and
4875-730: The National Basketball Association (NBA), served as NBC 's lead analyst, as YES Network 's color commentator/studio analyst for the Brooklyn Nets , as a commentator/studio analyst for NBA TV and for nationally televised games on TNT and was also the head coach of the Ukraine national basketball team . Fratello is among the winningest head coaches in NBA history, ranking respectively 18th and 19th in all-time regular season wins (667) and games coached (1,215) . Michael Robert Fratello
5000-469: The Sacramento Kings and Dejan Bodiroga of FC Barcelona , won the final game against Argentina , while Dirk Nowitzki , who was the tournament's MVP , led Germany to the bronze, its first ever World Championship medal. Meanwhile, the United States team, this time made up of NBA players, struggled to a sixth-place finish. This new era of parity convinced FIBA to expand the tournament to 24 teams for
5125-607: The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia , in particular — began to catch up to the teams from the American continents. Between 1963 and 1990, the tournament was dominated by the United States , the Soviet Union , Yugoslavia , and Brazil , which together accounted for every medal at the tournament. The 1994 FIBA World Championship held in Toronto marked the beginning of a new era, as currently active American NBA players participated in
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5250-630: The "Newfoundland" portion after the dominion confederated into Canada in 1949) all the way to CBC's first national television broadcast (the first actual broadcast was on closed-circuit in Maple Leaf Gardens in Spring 1952) of Hockey Night in Canada in October 1952. Today it is consistently among the highest-rated programs in Canada. Broadcasting of the Canadian Football League has been
5375-703: The 1890s. In 1896, a telegraph line was connected to the Victoria Rink in Montreal to update fans in Winnipeg of the Stanley Cup challenge series between Montreal and Winnipeg ice hockey teams. In 1923, the first radio broadcast of an ice hockey game took place on 8 February, with the broadcast of the third period of a game between Midland and North Toronto of the Ontario Hockey Association . Later that month,
5500-484: The 1960s. For this reason, as well as the regional nature of the sport, televised NHL games have struggled to gain a foothold on American television for the past several decades, trailing the other leagues in ratings. After several decades of bouncing around various networks (and a stretch from 1975 to 1994 when the league had no permanent broadcast partner), the NHL established a stable broadcast partner in 2004, when NBC and what
5625-446: The 1990s) allowed the carriage of these networks' sporting events across the country. However, with the increased availability of sports to broadcast came increasing rights fees, which could be recovered by the newly authorized practice of collecting retransmission consent fees from cable subscribers, which has led to numerous disputes and the dropping of channels from cable lineups. Individual leagues began launching their own networks in
5750-455: The 2000s; specialty networks of other sports have had varying levels of success. One of the first live high-definition sports broadcasts in the U.S. took place in September 1998 in which a football game between Ohio State and West Virginia , aired on WBNS-TV . The station claims this to have been the first locally produced HD broadcast in the U.S.; however, as several other stations throughout
5875-484: The 2006, 2010 , and 2014 editions of the tournament. In 2006 , emerging powerhouse Spain beat Greece in the first appearance in the final for both teams. Spain became only the seventh team ( Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia are counted separately in the FIBA records) to capture a World Championship gold. The USA, which lost to Greece in a semi-final, won against Argentina in the third-place match and claimed bronze. In
6000-627: The 2021 NBA season, TNT brought back Fratello for a broadcasting reunion with Albert, with both calling the play-in game between the Washington Wizards and the Indiana Pacers on May 20, 2021. Fratello is married to his wife Susan with two children, a son named Marc and a daughter named Kristi. * denotes player-coach ; # denotes interim head coach # denotes interim head coach # denotes interim head coach Sports broadcasting The broadcasting of sports events (also known as
6125-621: The 22 October 1939 game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Brooklyn Dodgers . The same year, the first nationwide radio broadcast of an NFL championship game was carried on the Mutual Broadcasting System . While the NFL had weak television deals that ranked behind college football and even the Canadian Football League in the 1950s, the broadcast rights of the NFL would go on to become an important property following
6250-596: The African and Oceanian champion each received a berth, while the Centrobasket champion and runner-up were each invited. For most of these years, the tournament host, defending World Champion, and top Olympic basketball tournament finishers also qualified for the event. From 1970 through the 2014 World Cup, qualification continued to be based on the continental competitions and the Olympic tournament. The only major change came in
6375-399: The BBC played a dominant role in televising sport, providing extensive high-quality advertisement free coverage and free publicity in exchange for being granted broadcast rights for low fees. ITV broadcast a smaller portfolio of events, and Channel 4 broadcast a few events from the 1980s, mainly horse races and so-called "minority sports". In the early 1990s this arrangement was shaken up by
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#17328585902736500-603: The CFL's decision, and additional plans have the College Football Playoff National Championship Game returning to broadcast in 2027. Several sports teams in the United States have their own channels, or own shares in other sports networks. For example, the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins own New England Sports Network , which retains the New England area television broadcast rights for
6625-538: The FIBA board. Of the four wild cards, only three could come from one continental zone. In each of the two tournaments that the wild card system was in place, FIBA selected the maximum three European teams to compete in the event. FIBA instituted major changes to its competition calendar and the qualifying process for both the World Cup and Olympics in 2017. First, the continental championships are now held once every four years, specifically in years that immediately follow
6750-472: The Japanese organizers were targeting to sell 180,000 tickets, mostly to a Japanese audience; as for the overseas audience, the Japanese organizers didn't "expect them in great numbers". This was seen as a big improvement from the 2002 tournament , which was a financial loss for USA Basketball and Indianapolis , in which all games were held in one city. This led to the Japanese organizers to hold games throughout
6875-523: The Kansas/Missouri game, distributed in telegraph code but was open to anyone listening to the station. The first voice broadcast of a sporting event took place on 11 April 1921 when Westinghouse station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania broadcast a 10-round, no decision boxing match between Johnny Dundee and Johnny Ray at Pittsburgh's Motor Square Garden . The event was reported by Florent Gibson,
7000-577: The NBA as an assistant coach for the Atlanta Hawks during Hubie Brown 's tenure. Fratello coached the Hawks for seven seasons and posted a 324–250 record, making the post-season playoffs five times and winning the Central Division in 1987 with 57 wins. Fratello was named Coach of the Year for the 1985–86 NBA season. His NBA career stats are 667 wins and 548 losses for a .549 average . His teams have qualified for
7125-462: The NBA players were not able to participate due to the 1998–99 NBA lockout . At the 2006 championship, the accumulated TV audience figure was 800 million viewers. The 2010 FIBA World Championship reached a global TV audience of close to 1 billion people in nearly 200 countries. Both numbers broke the previous records set at the 2006 FIBA World Championship and at the EuroBasket 2009 . Three of
7250-427: The Olympics, FIFA World Cup , and national team events in culturally-significant sports—are available on free-to-air, terrestrial television, rather than exclusively on pay television. Some larger events (particularly the Olympics) may be covered under rules allowing a portion of the event to be televised by a pay TV partner if a specific minimum of coverage is broadcast free-to-air, or if an extended highlights package
7375-412: The Summer Olympics. The continental championships no longer play a role in qualifying for either the World Cup or Olympics. The 2019 World Cup qualifying process, which began in 2017, is the first under a new format. Qualifying takes place over a two-year cycle, involving six windows of play. Qualifying zones mirror the FIBA continental zones, except that FIBA Asia and FIBA Oceania are now combined into
7500-425: The UK was an international boxing tournament between England and Ireland from Alexandra Palace on 4 February 1937. The United Kingdom saw the first live television broadcast of a football match, with the BBC showing a specially arranged fixture between Arsenal and Arsenal Reserves on 16 September 1937. The British media is dominated by national outlets, with local media playing a much smaller role. Traditionally
7625-423: The United States has been a fixture of the major networks on a continuous basis since that time. The NCAA severely restricted broadcasts of college football from the 1950s until a judge ruled that the action was a violation of antitrust rules in 1984 , which allowed for a much greater expansion of college football broadcasting. NBC broadcast the first televised National Football League (NFL) game when they carried
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#17328585902737750-448: The United States. In order to protect Canadian broadcasters' advertising, broadcast stations can invoke simultaneous substitution : any cable or satellite feed of an American station broadcasting the same program as a Canadian broadcast station must be blacked out and replaced by the Canadian feed. This rule is part of the reason the NFL, which is broadcast on terrestrial television in the United States but has no direct presence in Canada,
7875-410: The World Championship was used to determine the berths at the tournament. For example, all of the berths at the 2010 FIBA World Championship were determined by continental championships held in 2009 . After the first 20 teams qualified, FIBA then selected four wild card teams, based on sporting, economic, and governance criteria, as well as a required registration fee from each team to be considered by
8000-439: The World Cup, indeed its first participation in any FIBA tournament started in 1986; a team called "Taiwan" participated from 1960 to 1973, and a "Formosa" team joined from 1954 to 1959. Below is the FIBA table as seen from the FIBA archive website, updated with results since 1998. The records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia (counted together as "Yugoslavia") are separated from records of Serbia, and Serbia and Montenegro. In
8125-420: The World Cup. The final competition was expanded from 24 to 32 teams. Also, for the first time since 1967, the competition would no longer overlap with the FIFA World Cup. To accommodate this change, the 2014 FIBA World Cup was followed by a 2019 edition in China , followed by a 2023 edition in the Philippines , Japan , and Indonesia , and the 2027 tournament in Qatar , the first World Cup to be held in
8250-458: The World Cups. Thirteen players – Ubiratan "Bira" Pereira Maciel , Marcel de Souza , Marcelinho Machado , Anderson Varejão , Leandro Barbosa , Alex Garcia and Marcelo Huertas of Brazil , Phil Smyth of Australia , Daniel Santiago and Jerome Mincy of Puerto Rico , Eduardo Mingas of Angola , Luis Scola of Argentina and Rudy Fernández of Spain – have appeared in five tournaments . Brazilian legend Oscar Schmidt
8375-575: The arrival of pay-TV in the form of BSkyB and its sports channel Sky Sports . Their dedicated sports channels have since become the only place for some major sports to be seen. Starting in 2006, the Irish company Setanta Sports emerged as a challenger to Sky Sports' dominance of the British pay-TV sports market; however, Setanta's UK channel went into bankruptcy administration and off the air in 2009. Between 2009 and 2013 ESPN made an attempt to challenge Sky Sports before its British operations were bought out by Sky's current main competitor, TNT Sports ;
8500-403: The basketball and football teams. Fratello then went on to the University of Rhode Island as a graduate assistant assigned to head coach Tom Carmody, also coaching the University of Rhode Island freshman basketball team. Fratello was an assistant coach at James Madison University under Lou Campanelli . Fratello was an assistant coach at Villanova under Rollie Massimino before going to
8625-442: The booth the past two years, also became a full-time game analyst, joining Albert and Fratello on the sidelines. Due to his affiliation with TNT, Fratello was also used at various points through his TNT run as a studio analyst for NBA TV. Prior to Kerr's departure in the summer of 2014 to become the head coach of the Golden State Warriors , he was part of a three-man booth with his YES counterpart Marv Albert and Steve Kerr . He left
8750-467: The case of the Soviet Union, their records also didn't carry over to Russia. A total of 65 national teams have made at least one appearance in the final tournament. Boldface denotes active basketball players and highest medal count among all players (including these who not included in these tables) per type. The table shows players who have won at least 2 gold medals at the World Cups. The table shows players who have won at least 4 medals in total at
8875-444: The champion. In 1978 , FIBA added a gold medal game between the top two finishers in the final group and a bronze medal game between the third and fourth place teams. In each year between 1959 and 1982, the host team received a bye into the final group. Of the seven host teams in this era, only three won medals, despite the head start. As a result, FIBA made the host team compete in the preliminary round starting in 1986 . In 1986,
9000-786: The cost of service), and can provide an outlet for expanded coverage of "niche" events with dedicated audiences. By the mid-2000s and early 2010s, most major U.S. sports leagues (barring the National Football League , which has historically stipulated that all games be shown on terrestrial television in at least the markets of the teams involved) had begun to steadily decrease their presence on broadcast television, and allow more of their content (including post-season coverage in many cases) to air on cable networks, and more recently, digital-only outlets. The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and national championship games in college football have also largely moved to cable (since 2016,
9125-504: The country also lay claim to this distinction, the veracity cannot be verified. It is widely considered the first ever live sports game in HD in the U.S. produced using a production truck and transmission vehicle from NHK , Japan 's national public broadcasting organization . The Internet has also allowed greater broadcasting of sports events, both in video and audio forms and through free and subscription channels. With an Internet broadcast, even
9250-555: The country, instead of just in a single city. At the re-branded 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup , in Spain , FIBA reported impressive ratings from nations which were participating in the tournament during the first week of the group phase. Most games involving European teams had a market share of at least 20%, including a 40% market share in Finland , for the Finnish national team 's game against
9375-447: The event, so six of the ten teams were from the Americas (all three Olympic medalists were from the Americas, plus the zone received two continental berths and an Asia's berth). The former European powerhouse Soviet Union , later made their first tournament appearance in 1959 , after missing the first two events. In the tournament's early years, only Europe and South America had established continental tournaments, so participation in
9500-628: The event. In the United Kingdom , Sky UK based its early marketing largely on its acquisition of the broadcast rights of the top division of the English league football , which as part of the deal with The Football Association broke away from The Football League to become the Premier League . This prevented the footage of any major Premier League football game being shown on free-to-air television until much later that evening as highlights, something
9625-476: The first American football game, a college contest between Fordham and Waynesburg College was broadcast on television. The first nationwide broadcast of college football, which was also the first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast, was a game between Duke University and the University of Pittsburgh that was televised by NBC on 29 September 1951. The broadcasting of college football games on television in
9750-530: The first broadcast of a football match took place, with the BBC covering Arsenal's league fixture against Sheffield United at Highbury . Listeners to the broadcast could use numbered grids published in the Radio Times in order to ascertain in which area of the pitch (denoted as "squares") the action was taking place due to a second commentator reading out grid references during the match. The BBC broadcasts almost all major sports events. Initially broadcast as
9875-608: The first full-game broadcast took place in Winnipeg. That same season, hockey broadcasting pioneer Foster Hewitt made his first broadcast. In 1933, Hewitt called an olympic games -wide radio broadcast of an NHL game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs . Always starting the broadcast with "Hello, Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland !"; this phrase stuck around (albeit without
10000-588: The first radio broadcasting event occurred of a boxing match. Then the first televised sporting event occurred 1939, which was the summer olympics in the United States. In 1951, the first sports color telecast was a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves. As years went by more options were given to the public and the more popular sports broadcasting became. The first voice broadcasters happened, live broadcasting happened, and professional broadcasting happened. More media options became available to
10125-537: The first sports broadcaster. The first radio broadcast of a baseball game occurred on 5 August 1921 over KDKA from Pittsburgh's Forbes Field . Harold W. Arlin announced a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies . Two months later, on 8 October 1921, from the same Forbes Field, Arlin announced the first live radio broadcast of a college football game on KDKA when he gave
10250-491: The founding of the National Basketball Association , and has been aired on television ever since. College basketball, on the other hand, was much later in gaining a television foothold. Although the NCAA Tournament has aired since 1962, it was not until the mid-1970s that regular-season college basketball games would air on major network television. Outside of the networks, the only other source for national sports television
10375-563: The games exciting and entertaining. Perhaps the first sports broadcast was by Guglielmo Marconi , who broadcast the 1899 America's Cup from New York Harbor . The first ever prerecorded sportscast occurred in 1911 in Kansas. The first recording had a group of people recreate plays of a football game, that were trying to learn of a play via telegraph, but wasn't official because no one was present. Ten years later in 1921 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
10500-583: The games involving Lithuania were among the highest rated programs in that country. In China, 65 million watched the Chinese national team 's game against Greece , in the preliminary round. This was an improvement from the 2006 FIBA World Championship, which was held in Japan, and was shown in 150 countries. This meant that games aired in the morning in Europe and at night in the Americas; despite this, audiences broke records, with Italy 's game against Slovenia achieving
10625-688: The league and event, telecasts are often shown live on network television (traditionally on weekends and during major events — either national through a television network , or in some cases, regionally syndicated by an operation such as Raycom Sports or a team), and nationally available cable channels (such as ESPN or Fox Sports 1 ). In some leagues (such as the NHL and the NBA ), events are also primarily shown by regional sports networks groups (such as Fox Sports Networks ), networks which air telecasts for teams of local interest, which are usually only carried within
10750-413: The league in 2014, offers two weekly games to CBC Television for free to allow the network to continue the long-running Hockey Night in Canada . The CFL's return to broadcast television was part of a broader trend away from cable television and toward over-the-air options, as the NFL had made more of its Monday Night Football games available on broadcast television in the two years leading up to
10875-508: The leagues themselves, resulting in blackouts . These limitations can be legally overlooked by purchasing out-of-market sports packages , such as MLB Extra Innings or NFL Sunday Ticket . Regular season games involving local teams (except the NFL) may also be viewed on those local stations or regional sports channels that have a contract to broadcast that team's games. Events that have been described as "the most watched" per various definitions include
11000-402: The major broadcast networks, currently own some NFL rights. NBC also broadcast an NHL game in 1940; the league would briefly air games in the 1950s, but due to a dispute over how much of the rights fee money the players would receive (and difficulties programming around the two Canadian teams in the league at the time ), the NHL refused to televise its games in the United States for six years in
11125-421: The major team sports and the motorsports circuits operating their own networks. Local radio broadcasts cover a wide variety of sports, ranging from the majors to local school and recreational leagues. Internet broadcasts are also common, though college and major professional sports either use a pay wall or subscriber-based systems such as TV Everywhere to extract payment. Telephone broadcasts are rare, although
11250-471: The majority of Red Sox games (except nationally televised games). The New York Mets own SportsNet New York jointly with Comcast and Time Warner Cable . Madison Square Garden has its own network as well, MSG , where they broadcast New York Rangers , New York Knicks , New York Islanders and high school sports games, as well as original shows. Altitude airs games of all Denver-based teams owned by Kroenke Sports Enterprises. Mid-Atlantic Sports Network
11375-497: The men's and women's championships were held in the same year, though in different countries. Following the 2014 FIBA championships for men and women, the men's World Cup was scheduled on a new four-year cycle to avoid conflict with the FIFA World Cup. The men's World Cup was held in 2019, in the year following the FIFA World Cup. The women's championship, which was renamed from "FIBA World Championship for Women" to "FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup" after its 2014 edition, will remain on
11500-481: The nation's Team Ukraine basketball team. Fratello started as the lead color analyst for the Los Angeles Clippers from 1990 to 1992. He returned to the Clippers for the 2019 season as a rotating analyst on TV. Fratello has been a television commentator for NBC Sports and also a main color commentator of TNT , working once again with longtime play-by-play announcer Marv Albert , who first paired up with Fratello in
11625-459: The network after the 2018–2019 season. Starting with the 2008–09 season , Fratello had worked with Marv Albert and Ian Eagle on New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets games on the YES Network. Fratello was hired after the unexpected resignation of former color analyst Mark Jackson from the network. For the 2017-18 season , he served as a studio analyst. At the end of that season, he left the network to join
11750-725: The original now sits at the Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation in Spain. The second trophy is designed in an Egyptian-inspired lotus shape, upon which there are carved maps of the continents and precious stones symbolizing the five continents ( FIBA Americas represents both North America and South America). Dr. Naismith's name is engraved on all four sides in Latin , Arabic , Chinese , and Egyptian hieroglyphs . The trophy stands 47 centimeters (18.5 inches) tall and weighs nine kilograms (twenty pounds). The most recent Naismith Trophy design
11875-418: The past several decades, in part because of bidding wars between the numerous networks and the fear of losing stature due to the loss of NFL programming; as of the most recent contract the league nets annual fees of over $ 6 billion, or half of the league's overall revenue, from television rights alone. Four of the five major sports television units in the United States, and the four companies that control all of
12000-524: The play-by-play action of the University of Pittsburgh victory over West Virginia University . On 17 May 1939, the United States' first televised sporting event, a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and Princeton Tigers , was broadcast by NBC from Columbia's Baker Field . (The world's first live televised sporting event had been the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. ) On 30 September 1939,
12125-513: The playoffs in eleven of his 16 seasons as a head coach. One of the most respected basketball minds despite having never won an NBA championship as a head coach, Fratello ranks 19th on the NBA's all-time win list and 21st in games coached. In his six seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers his record was 248 wins and 212 losses. Fratello took the Cavaliers to the playoffs four times. Fratello
12250-704: The previous four-year cycle, with championships in the same year as the FIFA World Cup. The winning team receives the Naismith Trophy , first awarded in 1967 . The current champion is Germany , which defeated Serbia in the final of the 2023 tournament . The 1994 FIBA World Championship , which was held in Canada , was the first FIBA World Cup tournament in which currently active US NBA players that had already played in an official NBA regular season game were allowed to participate. All FIBA World Championship/World Cup tournaments since then are thus considered fully professional level tournaments. The FIBA Basketball World Cup
12375-501: The public whether it be on newspapers, radio, or television. As the number of people tuning in increased, so did the availabilities of where to hear and watch the broadcastings. Sports broadcasting also had an impact to the rise of American citizens being interested in being entertained. As more demand occurred from more sports broadcasters, the programing networks got more advanced with the technology as well. Broadcasting of sports started with descriptions of play sent via telegraph in
12500-541: The relevant market. Additionally, cable channels also exist that are dedicated to specific types of sports, certain college sports conferences, or a specific league. Pay-per-view broadcasts are typically restricted to combat sports such as boxing, mixed martial arts or professional wrestling. Radio broadcasts are extensive. The national leagues each have national network coverage of league high games in addition to local radio coverage originating with each team, with ESPN Radio and WestwoodOne controlling national rights to
12625-494: The results of SFR Yugoslavia/FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro respectively into "Yugoslavia" or "Serbia and Montenegro". The ranking of teams between the latter two medal tables are different, with the FIBA.com ranking by number of total medals, while the FIBA World Cup website's ranking is by number of gold medals. The number of medals won by the United States differs between the latter two medal tables, despite encompassing
12750-410: The results. Those in attendance cheered as though they were watching the game live, including the school's legendary Rock Chalk, Jayhawk cheer. This was followed on Thanksgiving 1919 by the first true broadcast (as opposed to the 1911 point-to-point transmission) of a college football game, over 5XB, the experimental station that eventually became WTAW ; that year's Lone Star Shootout was, as with
12875-403: The revenue was less than 2006's US$ 18 million, which was widely attributed to the strong Japanese yen . Meanwhile, FIBA got two-thirds of marketing rights revenue, of which one-third, or about US$ 8 million, went to the local organizers. FIBA had also successfully negotiated TV rights deals, which all went to FIBA, worth US$ 25 million, including a TV rights deal with ESPN . In 2006,
13000-454: The room for broadcasting sports events) available on a given set, and also gave channels such as ESPN the ability to broadcast direct and nationwide, as opposed to dealing with local affiliates. Syndication networks gave way to regional sports networks , which carried broadcasts of local sports on a far greater scale than full-service broadcast stations could provide at the time; these combined with out-of-market sports packages (which debuted in
13125-470: The same period. The latter two medal tables also do not include the results of the 2010 and 2014 championships. Finally, a FIBA.com PDF linked from the FIBA.com history section that documents the championships from 1950 to 2002 also has a medal table that included tournaments from 1950 to 1998, which also separated pre-breakup Yugoslavia, called as "Yusgoslavia" [ sic ] from the post-breakup Yugoslavia, called as "Serbia and Montenegro", and ranked
13250-416: The semi-finals of the former only air on broadcast television in odd-numbered years). A similar phenomenon has taken root in much of Canadian sports, where the Canadian Football League left broadcast television in 2008, not to return again until 2024. The National Hockey League survives on Canadian broadcast television because Rogers Sportsnet , the cable broadcaster that acquired exclusive rights to
13375-407: The team at NBA TV on a full-time basis. Former Net Richard Jefferson was named as his successor. After leaving the YES Network, Fratello joined the Cavaliers broadcasting team, working exclusively in the studio for in-studio analysis. Fratello also joined the crew at NBA TV, working once again in the studio as an analyst. When Marv Albert announced that he would be retiring after the conclusion of
13500-416: The teams by the number of total medals. The FIBA archive also lists the achievements of each national team, separating it per IOC codes. The national team representing Serbia's first international tournament is listed as 2007, Serbia and Montenegro's tournament participation lasted from 2003 to 2006, and Yugoslavia's participation was from 1947 to 2002. Chinese Taipei was listed not to have participated in
13625-448: The tournament briefly expanded to 24 teams. Four groups of six teams each competed in the preliminary round group stage. The top three teams in each group then competed in the second group stage, followed by a four-team knockout tournament between the top two finishers in each group. The championship contracted back down to 16 teams for the 1990 tournament . The three tournaments between 1990 and 1998 each had two group stages followed by
13750-589: The tournament for the first time (prior to that only European and South American professionals were allowed to participate as they were still classified as amateurs), while the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia split into many new states. The United States dominated that year and won gold, while former states of the USSR and Yugoslavia, Russia and Croatia , won silver and bronze. The 1998 FIBA World Championship , held in Greece ( Athens and Piraeus ), lost some of its luster when
13875-474: The tournament was largely by invitation. Later, Asia added a continental championship in 1960, followed by Africa in 1962, Central America in 1965, and Oceania in 1971, As a result of these changes, qualification became more formalized starting with the 1967 tournament . In that year, the Asian champion received an automatic berth in the tournament, joining the top European and South American teams. In 1970 ,
14000-408: The world watched Spain defeat Argentina in the final. In Spain over 10 million tuned into the final while 6.2 million watched the full game, making it the country’s most successful basketball game ever. The tournament’s average TV audience increased by more than 80% from 2014. On-site attendance also increased, with the total attendance reaching 794,951. The total attendance for the 2023 tournament
14125-416: The years, as it has expanded and contracted between 10 and 24 teams. The first tournament, in 1950 , began with a ten-team double-elimination tournament , followed by a six-team round robin round to determine the champion. Between 1954 and 1974, each tournament started with a group stage preliminary round; the top teams in each preliminary round group then moved on to a final round robin group to determine
14250-785: Was Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin who broadcast for the Gaelic Games and live commentary weekly beginning in 1930. Many sports were covered in Irish broadcasting including Bridge tournaments. The first sports event broadcast on radio in Europe was a Boxing contest for the Flyweight Championship of Great Britain and Europe between Elky Clark of Scotland and Kid Socks of England. relayed from the National Sporting Club in London on 26 February 1926. Further boxing commentaries were broadcast by
14375-561: Was a member of the Yugoslavia team that won the 1990 FIBA World Championship and coached the Yugoslavia team that won the 1998 FIBA World Championship . FIBA names a Most Valuable Player for each tournament . Since the tournament opened to NBA players at the 1994 tournament for the first time, NBA players have won seven of the eight MVP trophies awarded – Shaquille O'Neal for the United States in 1994, Germany's Dirk Nowitzki at
14500-697: Was born on February 24, 1947, in Hackensack, New Jersey and North Haledon, New Jersey , to his parents, Vincent and Marie. He is of Italian descent. He graduated from Hackensack High School , where he was captain of the basketball, baseball, football and field hockey teams. He was named to the Bergen "All County" Football team as a center in his senior year. Fratello then went on to Montclair State College in Montclair, New Jersey to play football. Upon graduation he returned to Hackensack High School as an assistant for both
14625-518: Was conceived at a meeting of the FIBA World Congress at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Long-time FIBA Secretary-General Renato William Jones urged FIBA to adopt a World Championship, similar to the FIFA World Cup , to be held in every four years between Olympiads . The FIBA Congress, seeing how successful the 23-team Olympic tournament was that year, agreed to the proposal, beginning with
14750-573: Was delivered on RealVideo , a compressed video format, on the RealPlayer media player platform on the station's website. It also was distributed to Windows Mobile mobile devices using the Windows Media Player format, including Compaq 's IPAQ personal digital assistant which required an ExpressCard to connect to the Internet . Broadcasting rights and contracts limit who can show footage of
14875-480: Was designed by Radiant Studios Ltd, and handcrafted by the silversmith Thomas Lyte . (OT): game decided after overtime. In the most current medal table released by FIBA as seen on the FIBA archive website, the 2014 championship is taken into account, and the records of SFR Yugoslavia and FR Yugoslavia are combined under "Yugoslavia". Previously, FIBA had a medal table from 1950 to 2006, and another medal table that included results from 1950 to 2006, that separated
15000-562: Was head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies from December 2004 to December 2006. In his first season, he inherited a 5–11 team that he turned around to win 40 games and advance to the playoffs. Fratello built on that record the following year to win 49 games and return to the playoffs for a second consecutive season. Before departing in December 2006, his record was 6–24 taking his overall record with Memphis to 95–83. On February 24, 2011, Fratello
15125-547: Was officially announced as the Ukraine national basketball team head coach and on March 3, 2011, he was introduced to the Ukrainian media at a press conference in Kyiv . After the successes he provided for Ukraine, including their first ever FIBA World Cup appearance, it was announced that Fratello would not coach for Ukraine for EuroBasket 2015 . He would be replaced by Yevgin Murzin as
15250-413: Was revealed in the 2019 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers Draw Ceremonies, last 7 May 2017. The trophy, which stands about 60 centimeters high (13 cm. higher than the 1998 version), is made almost entirely out of gold, and features the names of the previous world cup champions at the base. FIBA's original name (Federation Internationale de Basketball Amateur) is also engraved at the trophy's "hoop". The trophy
15375-534: Was the lead analyst for games for the Miami Heat on The Sunshine Network. Fratello left this position to take over as head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies after the resignation of Hubie Brown in December 2004. For the 2007–08 season , TNT rehired Fratello as a full-time commentator, allowing him to work once again with Marv Albert at NBA on TNT . Reggie Miller , who had split time between TNT's studio and
15500-400: Was then Outdoor Life Network (now NBCSN ) took over NHL broadcast rights; they have since renewed those rights through 2021. The first-ever television broadcast of a basketball game occurred on 28 February 1940 when the University of Pittsburgh defeated Fordham at Madison Square Garden on NBC station W2XBS. Professional basketball has been aired on television since 1953, shortly after
15625-500: Was through early syndication networks. Sports Network Incorporated (SNI), later renamed the Hughes Television Network , carried Cleveland Browns (NFL) games in the 1950s and NHL games in the late 1970s, after the NHL lost its contract with NBC. TVS Television Network helped popularize the broadcasts of college basketball and also gave an outlet to the short-lived World Football League . Mizlou Television Network earned
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