Payame Noor University Communication Management in Sport Media 2345-5578 Articles in Press 2025 01 20 Conceptual framework of using media power for sports development Conceptual framework of using media power for sports development 10045 10.30473/jsm.2023.68127.1761 FA SeyedAhad Hashemian Ph.D. Student in sports Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Hamid Ghasemi Associate Professor, Department of Sports Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Masoome Hosseini Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2023 06 08 The purpose of this research was to investigate the concept of media power and to obtain operational strategies to adopt new ways of using media in sports development. This is a qualitative research that was conducted using Grounded Theory and Strauss and Corbin's approach. The statistical population of the research included 14 experts in the field of sports and media management and experienced specialists in the field of sports media, and to collect data, targeted sampling was used with semi-structured interview method and reaching theoretical saturation. Data analysis was carried out through three stages of open coding, central coding, and selective coding, with an emphasis on media power sources as the central phenomenon and subcategories, causal, contextual, intervening conditions, consequences, and strategies. In order to ensure the validity and reliability of the research, the interviews with some people were repeated several times and the results in several stages were seen by several experienced professors and interviewees, and in the meantime, the focus groups of the participants in the research were also used. Based on the results obtained from the research, media acquisition, audience persuasion,, media specialization and legal support were identified as causal conditions and the ability to flow, demand, generate income, build trust, authority, legitimacy, transparency and the type of media ownership as underlying factors and the intervening factors to Two categories of facilitators and obstacles of media power in sports development were identified. The purpose of this research was to investigate the concept of media power and to obtain operational strategies to adopt new ways of using media in sports development. This is a qualitative research that was conducted using Grounded Theory and Strauss and Corbin's approach. The statistical population of the research included 14 experts in the field of sports and media management and experienced specialists in the field of sports media, and to collect data, targeted sampling was used with semi-structured interview method and reaching theoretical saturation. Data analysis was carried out through three stages of open coding, central coding, and selective coding, with an emphasis on media power sources as the central phenomenon and subcategories, causal, contextual, intervening conditions, consequences, and strategies. In order to ensure the validity and reliability of the research, the interviews with some people were repeated several times and the results in several stages were seen by several experienced professors and interviewees, and in the meantime, the focus groups of the participants in the research were also used. Based on the results obtained from the research, media acquisition, audience persuasion,, media specialization and legal support were identified as causal conditions and the ability to flow, demand, generate income, build trust, authority, legitimacy, transparency and the type of media ownership as underlying factors and the intervening factors to Two categories of facilitators and obstacles of media power in sports development were identified.