E15: Summer, Interrupted

About this episode

This episode explores the evolution of baseball broadcasts and the impact of advertising on the game.

There was a time when a baseball broadcast asked nothing of you. No sponsors. No jingles. Just the game and the voice describing it. Then one day, a ten-second watch commercial changed everything, and we never noticed what we were giving away. This is the story of how ads didn’t interrupt baseball, and then they did, and it was too late.

People in this episode

Host: bendavidorlando

Topics covered

• baseball
• advertising
• broadcast history
• media influence
• cultural change

Keywords

• baseball
• broadcast
• advertising
• history
• media

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Midnight Library of Baseball

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