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Media coverage for Women is not very good. We do not hear much about their sports on ESPN and such. The WNBA is hardly ever on television at all. But, when it comes to the NCAA tournament they get a lot of air time. All the games are on ESPN family of networks. Sure that is unfair to someone who does not have cable, but through out the season the Men have the same issues. During the season and during the week games for men are on the ESPN family of networks. There just is not that want or need to put women’s college basketball on CBS or ABC on a Saturday afternoon. Who will watch? No one. If a men’s game was on ESPN the same time as a women’s game was on CBS… The men’s game would win out 9 out of 10 times no question.
Men get the greatest opportunity because they produce, they produce money. Money is what keeps the sponsors and networks coming back. The other reason for so much media coverage during the NCAA tournament is due to the fact of upsets. Upsets happen every year and causes so much Madness. In the women’s game there is only that handful of teams who will win it all and there are usually never any upsets. It sets up for a pretty boring NCAA tournament. The men’s game has that Cinderella story, while in the women’s game we have barely have a good game.
TIMMY!! At first when I was reading this blog, I was going to disagree with it but then as I further read along that is the main reason why women's basketball will never be on main ESPN networks because even though it is just Sports, when it all comes down to it sports is a business, if you can't make money then you won't last. Good post Pedro... Rudy Rodriguez
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you're saying but I do think it's sad that people refuse to be interested in womens sport. Its a cycle, if more people are introduced to womens sport than more will gain interest and desire to be apart of it. If this kept happening than someday womens sport could become more competitive and interesting.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the fact that the woman's game is not as marketable, but women's sports are just as important to the women that play them as they are to the men. Also ABC would have no problem playing a women's game on a saturday because it is part of the ESPN family of networks. I also agree there are not the same magnitude of upsets as in the mens tournament but strongly disagree with the statement there are no exciting womens games. You have Tennessee vs. UConn and that has been an extremely exciting rivalry with close games and superstars of the women's game. More men need to keep an open mind that just because it is different doesn't mean it is less entertaining.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alex's last statement: "More men need to keep an open mind that just because it is different doesn't mean it is less entertaining." Amen to that!
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