Episode 92: Sports Docs and Binge Watching with Dr. Emil Steiner - a podcast by Inside the Box: The TV History Podcast

This week Jonathan sits down with Rowan’s Dr. Emil Steiner to discuss his research on binge watching and how it connects to sports documentaries. If you’ve already listened to our episode (Ep. 90) on sports documentaries and nostalgia with Dr. Branden Buehler, then this will be the perfect companion episode. If you haven’t, that’s ok too since this is an excellent standalone episode and conversation about sports documentaries, sports fandom, why we watch what we watch the way that we watch it ? and also a little insight into how biography influences scholarship.















You can check out Emil’s faculty page here. He is also the coordinator of Rowan University’s Sports Communication & Media program. You can also check out his article on binge-watching from the journal Convergence here.







Jason Hehir’s telling of the last moments of greatness from Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls (co-produced by ESPN and Netflix) captured the pandemic audience’s comfort-seeking attentions.In 2014, as binge-watching began its dominance, Nielsen released infographics calculating the time required to watch the entirety of certain programs. Here the list is for animated content.ESPN ran their SportsCentury program from 1999 to 2007. The series highlighted a particular athlete’s career, often in epic and reverent tones. Netflix’s Tiger King (March & April 2020) captured the early pandemic audience’s attentionMorning Consult is a relatively new analytics company who in 2018 surveyed an 1,800 person sample regarding their binge-watching habits.The ninth entry under the ESPN Films Presents moniker, this documentary follows the upbringing and addictions of former pro-football quarterback Todd Marinovich.

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