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Clocking Gender Differences: Televised Olympic Clock Time in the 1996–2006 Summer and Winter Olympics
Andrew C. Billings*
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: acbilng{at}clemson.edu.
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Analysis of all 348 prime-time hours of the 1996–2006 Olympic telecasts (three Summer, three Winter) pinpointed trends in coverage of mens and womens sports. Results indicate that while men athletes and events received the majority of clock time in all six Olympic telecasts, the Summer Olympic telecasts treated women far more equitably than the Winter Olympic telecast. The longitudinal study does not offer any reason to feel that coverage of womens athletics is improving over time, finding that the proportion of clock time devoted to mens and womens sports is relatively the same in 2006 compared to ten years earlier.
First published on March 3, 2008, doi:10.1177/1527476408315502
Television & New Media 2008;9:429.
A more recent version of this article appeared on September 1, 2008

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