Tucker Center affiliated scholar Dr. Cheryl Cooky (Purdue University) and her colleagues Michael Messner and Michela Musto (University of Southern California) have released “It’s Dude Time!: A quarter century of excluding women’s sports in televised news and highlight shows,” a five-year update to a 25-year longitudinal study. The research, sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy (SHARP) Center, indicates that the quantity of coverage of women’s sports in televised sports news and highlights shows remains dismally low with network affiliate sports news programs devoting only 3.2% of broadcast time to women’s sports and ESPN’s SportsCenter devoting a scant 2% of broadcast time to women’s sports. To download a free PDF copy of the study, please click here.
Related articles:
- TV coverage of women’s sports hits 25-year low. HuffPost Live. June 9, 2015.
- Attitudes about women’s sport in mainstream media. Phys.org. June 9, 2015.
- TV ignores women’s sports now more than it did 25 years ago. Huffington Post. June 8, 2015.
- Women’s soccer is a feminist issue. The Atlantic. June 5, 2015.
