Artefact 1 - Summary

Broadcasting sports & Sound - Artefact 1

From the questionnaire ‘Broadcasting sports & Sound’ I will collate the responses I got, to give me a better understanding of the audience I have posed questions to. I will collate the answers into charts and graphs so that it demonstrates clearly what the audience like or dislike.

First the audience that this data is collected from is from a sports bar in Leicester called ‘Junction 8’. It has many people who watch soccer regularly and the sports bar is a well known bar to go and watch football. In recent years they have started to show American football games during the evenings and have become popular with the local. This makes the sample of people I asked know the basics of both sports.

The sample size was 20 people from Junction 8 sports bar.

Collation of answers

Out of the 20 people that I sampled 12 were female and 8 were male.

This was surprising to be to find because I taught that there would be more males than females in a sports bar.

Question two that was asked was the age range people belonged too. They were:

Age Range People

18-25 6

26-40 12

41-65 2

Over 65 0

The third question was about some of their favourite sports.

The most poular results were: football, rugby,tennis, snooker, american football.


This was because it gives me information about how many of those sports use different technologies and those who don’t. This will allow me to focus on those who don’t use technologies like used in the others. Many people choose more than one sport.

From the list listed i can see one out of the five that doesn’t use direct technology for the viewer to listen or to know what the referee says. I will focus on this sport as a base. To compare with another sport that uses the technology.


Question 4 & 5

Out of 11 people that said they did only 7 of them had it for the purposes of watching sports broadcast.

This was the end other the general questions I asked the sample of people. The sample was then shown two clips that correspond to the questions which show in one an American football referee explain what happened in the clip. In another you see a soccer referee talking to a player about a tackle. These are the reposes I got after the people I sampled watched the two 10 second clips.
Responses from audience.

Questions six asked list the differences between the clips.

The number one answers were the referees. “One was talking was the other wasn’t” was a common thing written down. 80% of the people said this or similar.

Question seven followed on with this an asked “Would you be interested in hearing what was said in clip 2? If yes, explain why”.

Not everyone unanimously said yes to this question. Only 40% of people said yes.

The reasons were varied on this one but all the responses were interesting. One response was “I wouldn’t like to hear what he was saying because their wouldn’t be anything to talk about after the game”

This shows that not all people would like to hear the referee and maybe investigating why this is could be another potential way to move my research forward.

n the next question many people said they would like to hear their favourite athlete in live sports broadcasted games but in the final question many people said they would like to see them on highlighted packaged with 60% saying this. This was the most popular vote. This may be something to look at in the next phases of this project.