50% female sport on bbc news and tv

Well as it's a publicly funded UK broadcaster, @TeeJay1970, and given that 51% of the UK's population is female, I'd suggest it IS their remit to promote a wide range of content, including women's sport.

All good things.

But that isn't the BBC's job

Because it would help address the gaping inequality in the way women's and men's sports are perceived, @TeeJay1970.

It would help put pressure on sporting leagues to professionalise women's sport in the same way that men's are, allowing more women to forge careers from sport rather than have to hold down a job and compete.

Because it would help encourage more girls into sport rather than leaving men as the only footballers, rugby players, golfers etc they will see on their screen.

Because you have completely ignored the reasons I outlined as to WHY it is unpopular, one of which is a significant lack of platforming and funding. Why do you think women's sport is unpopular?

Why is it the BBC's job to promote unpopular sports?

But @TeeJay1970 do you think the lack of TV audience is down to the fact that either:

a) women's sport has been systematically under-funded and left un-professionalised for decades, thus there has always been less to show on television, and misogynistic attitudes which include those where "it's not ladylike to play rugby" and the idea that the default sport is mens (see: 'England football team' vs 'England's women's football team', 'The World Cup' vs 'Women's World Cup'), and that these attitudes have reinforced the idea that women's sport is less interesting and less worthy. After all, the country is represented on the global stage by MEN and the women's game is just a PC sideshow. Or the fact that from an early age boys are encouraged to be footballers and rough and tumble, and girls are still funneled down the delicate sparkly princess route? Or that fact that in many competitions the women's prize money is still significantly less than that of the men's, thus dis-incentivizing women to train to become elite? Or the sheer fact that it doesn't have much of an audience because it simply isn't being broadcast to an audience? Or;

b) women are rubbish at sport so people don't want to watch it.

I can guarantee if squash was given the elitism and the prize money of sports like tennis / golf it would be huge. It's not that it's a shit sport, it's just not professionalised like others are.

Whether a sport gets on TV is done to the audienxe size.

Lots of people want to watch - it gets on TV.

Not many people - it stays off TV

Tennis is on TV lots squash never is.

Yes I think they could report a lot more. Great to see more regular screening of women's football which we watch, but they frequently don't cover women's sports in bulletins.

But 50% of sport is not female.

And it won’t be if there’s no visible women’s sport to inspire girls into sport.

But 50% of sport is not female.

Sky do a good job covering the netball and the LPGA golf. BT have the rights to WTA tennis.

Sky Sports has women commentators, also a woman is on match of the day

They're really spoiling us.

I don't see why there isn't more women's sport on TV. They seem to manage it with the Olympics without anyone complaining.

AlwaysComingHome is right - women’s sport will be destroyed in a generation by transgender biological males taking it over.

I think you’ll be lucky to see 50% female competitors in women’s sport, let alone 50% of commentators.

It would be nice.

I keep wondering if I could raise a simipoint with my local paper. Usually 10 pages of local sport in the back pages.

Pretty much all male sports every single week with the odd piece about the local Running Club.

I can just imagine the responses though.

But I cannot see how things will change if girls don’t see people like themselves doing sport.

Sky Sports has women commentators, also a woman is on match of the day