What's The Gendered Story? Vancouver's Prime Time Olympic Glory on NBC

Angelini, James R.; MacArthur, Paul J.; Billings, Andrew C.

doi:10.1080/08838151.2012.678515

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“…Name salience can detect tacit messages embedded in Olympic narratives, highlighting athletes of a particular nationality or biological sex. Name-mentions could significantly vary from one sport to another, with some events inherently generating more name-mentions than others (Angelini et al, 2012). For instance, in commenting on short track speed skating, skaters’ names are usually more frequently mentioned because the competition often involves multiple lead changes, and broadcasters need to frequently identify athletes’ positions in the contest while figure skating, however, features fewer name-mentions because of the music component and the singular focus on one performance independent from others (Angelini et al, 2012).…”

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“…Regarding the top 10 or 20 most-mentioned athletes, NBC—between 1996 and 2016—featured women 40.0%–60.0% of the time at the Summer Olympics and 20.0%–40.0% of time in the Winter Olympics (Billings et al, 2018a). Beyond the USA, Canada had seven women out of the top 20 most-mentioned athletes (35.0%) at the 2014 Winter Olympics (Angelini et al, 2012), while the Australian network featured six women among the top 20 most-mentioned athletes (30.0%) at the 2016 Summer Games (Xu et al, 2017). Overall, women received fewer name-mentions compared to their male Olympic counterparts, although the sex gap is comparatively smaller compared to all other sports media offerings.…”

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Women, men, and five Olympic rings: An examination of Chinese Central Television’s broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics

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International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This study conducts a content analysis on Chinese Central Television’s broadcasting of figure skating, short track speed skating, and freestyle skiing—the three most popular winter sports in the People’s Republic of China—at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics from the perspective of biological sex. A full examination of 100% (over 37 h) of Chinese Central Television’s broadcast coverage was analyzed in terms of clock-time, name-mentions, and descriptors. In each sport examined, female athletes received less clock-time and fewer name-mentions compared to their male counterparts. However, in the analysis of 7765 descriptors, relatively few significant differences between depictions of male and female athletes were uncovered, potentially explained by the Communist legacy of erasing women’s feminine characteristics and the relatively equal number of male and female commentators in Chinese Central Television’s sports newsrooms. Also, compared to many Western countries, male figure skaters in the People’s Republic of China received more clock-time and name-mentions, possibly attributed to cultural differences in defining ideal masculinity across East Asia and the West.

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Women, men, and five Olympic rings: An examination of Chinese Central Television’s broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics

Billings

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International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…The Olympic Games and related television coverage have been thoroughly analysed, among others, due to the number of viewers which cannot be compared with any other sports event (Billings et al, 2008, Angelini & Billings, 2010, Angelini et. al., 2012, Billings, 2008b, Billings & Eastman, 2003.…”

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Sports press coverage of Polish female athletes during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

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Mazur

2017

Studies in Sport Humanities

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During the last Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Polish female representatives won sig-nificantly more medals compared to men. This fact made the authors examine whether female athletes received proportionate media coverage compared to men. In the course ofresearch, articles from the two largest Polish dailies were analysed (“Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Fakt Gazeta Codzienna”). With the use of content analysis, 197 articles were analysed in order to check whether any quantitative and qualitative differences can be observed in describing women's and men's sport. The results show underrepresentation of press coverage regarding women's sport. The results of qualitative analysis also point to a number of differences when portraying women's and men's sport.

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“…Studies have uncovered inequalities relating to overall exposure (Coche, 2013), production qualities (Greer, Hardin, & Homan, 2009), and differing dialogues (Angelini, MacArthur, & Billings, 2012) when compared to male athletes in similar sports. Such trends differ depending on sport, season, and nation rendering sports coverage (see Billings, 2011), yet the influence of one media entity in the United States has received considerable attention: the wide-reaching media conglomerate, ESPN.…”

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A total of 118 hr of sports news broadcast programming was subject to gender clock-time analysis, half from Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN's) SportsCenter and half from 2013 startup network Fox Sports 1's Fox Sports Live. Results showed that both programs featured women's sports less than 1% of the time, with only modest gains found in an Olympic month (February 2014) of presumed heavy women's sports exposure compared to a fall (October/November 2013) coding period. Moreover, both programs featured the same top five sports in nearly identical proportionality and story lengths of women's spots were consistently 70% of a men's spot regardless of program. Results indicate that Fox Sports Live is replicating SportsCenter's programming choices far more than challenging them from a gender perspective.

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What's The Gendered Story? Vancouver's Prime Time Olympic Glory on NBC

Cited by 62 publications

References 26 publications

Women, men, and five Olympic rings: An examination of Chinese Central Television’s broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics

Women, men, and five Olympic rings: An examination of Chinese Central Television’s broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics

Sports press coverage of Polish female athletes during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

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