by admin | Aug 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW
The latest edition of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) annual Global Sports Survey has revealed that 85 per cent of sports experts are predicting double-digit growth for women’s sports revenues over the next three to five years. Confirmed: To attract new audiences to...
by admin | Dec 7, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
In this fast-paced, dynamic world of sports, we’re at an inflection point. For years, enduring misconceptions about women’s sports have blurred our vision, sidelining what is now a shining opportunity. If sports sponsorship occupies a slot in your business...
by admin | Jul 6, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
This WNBA season’s opening night viewership on ESPN platforms was up 103% over last year, but two-time MVP Candace Parker thinks the league needs to do a better job of avoiding conflict with other sports on TV. “I think just in terms of continuing to raise visibility...
by admin | Jun 8, 2023 | Representation, SEW
If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? If a World Cup kicks off on the other side of the world but no one can watch it, does it really happen? We are 43 days out from the Women’s World Cup starting in Australia and New Zealand but, with Fifa threatening a...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Audiences are now consuming seven times more than in 2012, which is largely a result of a five-fold increase in women’s fixtures being broadcast live on mainstream television compared to a decade ago. According to UK-based charity the Women’s Sport Trust, a record...
by admin | Oct 25, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Saturday criticized television broadcasters who have offered “100 times less” to screen the Women’s World Cup compared to the men’s. Infantino was speaking in Auckland hours before the draw for next...
by admin | Mar 22, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Long before Cari Champion ever knew she’d become a broadcast journalist, she used to tag along to Los Angeles Lakers’ games with her sports-obsessed grandmother, Estelle Manning. Now 96, Manning planted the sports seed in her granddaughter’s heart. Champion recalls...
by admin | Feb 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Maria Taylor has had a wild couple of years. “You can’t make up the story lines that end up leading to my very first Super Bowl,” she says now, in her first full interview since the controversy that led her to leave her longtime perch at ESPN for NBC Sports. The...
by admin | Jan 23, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to Abby Roque who will become the first Native American woman to represent the U.S. in ice hockey at the Olympics. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to to two WHOU broadcasters who made fun of high school...
by admin | Jan 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Once the star of Winter Olympics broadcasts, Lindsey Vonn will now be featured on the other side of NBC’s coverage as a primetime correspondent for the 24th Winter Games in Beijing. Vonn, 37, won three Olympics medals in her career, including women’s...
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