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A model of business behavior was applied to local television sports to assess whether management of sports is hypercompetitive. Hypercompetition was defined as a turbulent, changing environment in which decisions are made quickly and based on real-time information. A national survey of television managers indicated that hypercompetition exists at large market, corporately owned stations. Smaller, individually owned stations, as well as those managed by women, didn't fit the hyper-competitive model, leading to important implications.

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Explaining Local Television Sports Through Hypercompetition

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