February 1, 2023
My diet of sports media has changed immensely throughout the years due to be growing older and finding other ways to consume my sports media but also seeing new ways be invented as I grow older. I started watching sports as long as I can remember and the first thing I remember seeing coverage on sports related news was on tv watching it through ESPN or Bein sports and around the time there wasn’t many electronics and ways to see the coverage as there was now yes there was iPods and computers that would share the sports coverage but it wasn’t such a big thing as it was now. This continued on until I was in middle school and I was around 13 and I got my first phone and my first social media account which was instagram, to begin with having a phone was life changing due to the fact that if I wanted to know a score of a game or some kind of stat all I had to do was have the ESPN app or search on google or even other types of apps but the biggest producer at that time for me was instagram where I was able to see all the types of news or sponsorship for sports. Instagram was on top of everything sharing rumors, speculations, injury updates, and more. Around the time I turned 16 which was the time I was entering high school I obtained a Twitter account and with Twitter the reporting was constant and was producing information day and night at any time of the day. To this day Twitter is my main source of consumption for sports media it keeps me updated on everything and I do believe it’s the fastest producer of sports media. I definitely feel though that in the next five years the way sports media is produced and shared to all the fans won’t really change much because there has been a lot of progressions these past few years and I think it would be too soon for anything to be fixed or changed there is still some time to sit and have the consumption stay the same as it currently is. The only thing that I would change specifically is have a social media type app that focuses only on the opinions, debates, and news of sports with people being able to be friends and have a feed of specific teams but nothing else to be implied other then sports on this social media app.