(08-09-2019 06:01 PM)Wear Purple Wrote:  What difference does it make whether the ACCN is built by women, men, insects, vegetables or Eskimos?

According to USA Today it's a milestone for gender equality and diversity. Be right back, I'm going to go change my gender to female and crush a bunch of women's field hockey teams to create my own milestone in diversity and equality.

Quote:“In a perfect world, this wouldn’t be a story,” said Amy Rosenfeld, a senior coordinating producer for ESPN who is heading production for the ACC Network. “Victory for all of us is when this isn’t a story anymore. But right now it is a story and it’s probably an important story.”

It isn't a story. Stop trying to make it one.

Quote:“I remember being in a meeting one day a couple years ago and looking around, and I noticed it then that I was sitting at a table full of women,” said Rosalyn Durant, the senior vice president of college networks for ESPN. “I paused and said, ‘Look around the room here. Do you notice this?’ It felt different, it felt very strong and it felt like tremendous progress from where the industry had been and it showed progress from where the company had been.”

I too feel empowered when I walk down the cosmetics aisle of the grocery store and it happens to be all men in the aisle. YOU GO BOYS! EQUALITY WOOO WOO!

Quote:“We talk about our core priorities at ESPN, and they include direct to consumer quality storytelling and innovation, but one of the ones we usually lead with is audience expansion,” Pitaro told USA TODAY Sports. “That means a bunch of things, but it includes being more relevant to girls and women, and if we’re going to be more relevant to girls and women we need an executive leadership team and an employee base on all levels that reflects that audience.”

How does having a few employees being female instead of male change the relevancy of your sports broadcast to women? Do the teams change? Do the leagues change? Do the players change? Do the venues change? Do the teams calling the games for ESPN change? Does the product change? If having more women and being more relevant to women was such a huge deal, why does what little women-only programming ESPN shows (typically WNBA) do so utterly awful in ratings? From actual measurable and objective criteria (Nielsen ratings) you fail at your own claimed goal when it comes to broadcasting women's sports.





O *clap* M *clap* G *clap* THIS IS SO FABULOUS.




*roll eyes* They better not Kaepernick up this launch. The stench of identity politics coming out of Bristol is strong. I get that the ESPN studio was free since they created another $50m+ studio for SportsCenter then didn't use it. But if this is the cost of being in Bristol, I'm fine taking a league pay cut for a year to move production to Charlotte as well. Keep the politics out of the coverage. That means out of the actual sports event coverage. Out of the "talking head" programming in the morning from Wes and the gang. Out of the behind the scenes coverage. Out. There's a word to describe the meaning of the ACCN launching with higher than average numbers of ovaries involved: irrelevant.