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The Women’s Sports Network Has Arrived
- Thread starter Y2kTheNewOldies
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From the release:
"Moving forward, the network plans to carry live games, tournaments and can’t-miss events across the continuum of women’s sports in the near future."
Translation:
"We don't have the TV or streaming rights to anything yet."
"Moving forward, the network plans to carry live games, tournaments and can’t-miss events across the continuum of women’s sports in the near future."
Translation:
"We don't have the TV or streaming rights to anything yet."
Do y'all think there is really a market for this? I know this is just one instance regarding one sport, but I keep remembering the jokes made about the poor attendance for that parade honoring a women's basketball team that had won a championship. I almost felt bad for those ladies because a lot of influencers ripped them to shreds about that poorly attended parade.
No. With a few exceptions, women's sports exist out of a sense of equality. There is very little audience for any women's sport.
The two exceptions that come to mind are the US women's national soccer team and the UConn women's basketball team.
There is an audience for some of it, probably not the audience they want though.
Simply put, if there's an audience for it, and it can generate ratings and advertisers are interested in supporting this network, it'll survive. If they find there isn't enough audience/ratings/advertiser support, it won't.
While I don't mean any disrespect, they may have some difficulty. While some sports like women's 2 on 2 volleyball can be interesting, women's sports in general simply don't attract the same audience as men. The women's soccer team made a huge deal about the fact that they weren't paid as much as the members of the men's soccer team, also making the case that the men didn't have a great record, while the women were winning championships. They demanded (and eventually won) equal pay. That said, even though they play with just as much heart as the men, and they indeed have a better winning record, at the same time, the audience and fan interest simply isn't the same, and thus, neither is the revenue generated. Again, I'm not intending that in a disrespectful way, but it is the apparent reality of the situation.
While I don't mean any disrespect, they may have some difficulty. While some sports like women's 2 on 2 volleyball can be interesting, women's sports in general simply don't attract the same audience as men. The women's soccer team made a huge deal about the fact that they weren't paid as much as the members of the men's soccer team, also making the case that the men didn't have a great record, while the women were winning championships. They demanded (and eventually won) equal pay. That said, even though they play with just as much heart as the men, and they indeed have a better winning record, at the same time, the audience and fan interest simply isn't the same, and thus, neither is the revenue generated. Again, I'm not intending that in a disrespectful way, but it is the apparent reality of the situation.
Many tennis fans watch both the men's and women's games, if only because the sport's Grand Slam tournaments have men's and women's competitions on the same site. Women's golf is played apart from the men, and struggles for viewers for that and a couple more reasons: first, the women play at shorter distances, which diminishes the sport in some male eyes (the courts in tennis are identical for both sexes), and secondly, women's golf has become a virtual private hunting ground for players from South Korea, Thailand and Japan, as those nations, especially South Korea, have been grinding out top female golfers like clockwork for the past three decades or so. That's not the way to attract American viewers, no matter how well they play.
Interestingly in some countries Korfball is a big deal and it's seen in the same way like the NBA, WNBA games are seen in the USA. Not sure how the pay part is a factor but I would think the more championship a team have the more they would pay attention to them.
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