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             * Women's sports were underreported and underrepresented in the six weeks of 11:00 p.m. television sports news on three network affiliates sampled in the study. Men's sports received 94% of the air time, women's sports 5%, and gender neutral topics 1%. These proportions were almost identical to those found in the 1989 study.
             * The near-invisibility of women athletes on televised sports news was exacerbated by an almost total absence of interviews with women athletes or coaches. On the 126 newscasts examined, there were 137 interviews with men
             athletes or coaches, and only 4 interviews with women athletes or coaches.
             * When the news devoted substantial time to a report on women's sports, too often the focus was on a gag feature (nuns playing celebrity volleyball), a relatively unknown, marginal sport (sport parachuting) or a scandal in women's sports (a runner accused of cheating in a marathon). In-depth coverage of established women's sports such as golf, tennis, running, and basketball was almost nonexistent.
             * Compared with the 1989 study, which criticized the use of female spectators as sexual objects of male news commentators' humor, the 1993 study found far less humorous sexual objectification of women. Moreover, men were used in such comical roles with about the same frequency that women were used.
             * Over the six week period, three quarters of the small number of stories about women's sports that did occur appeared on expanded-format Sunday sports reports. All three stations combined aired only one women's story on a Monday, no stories on a Tuesday and one on a Wednesday.
             * The number of men's stories that included video clips was far greater than the number of women's stories with moving footage, 545 compared to 45. However, the percentage of stories accompanied by video was nearly identical for men and women, 83% versus 80%....