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Women in Sports Media

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Show discusses the pros and cons of women covering big ticket sports like football, baseball and basketball in radio, television and print. Are these women necessary and important in the world of sports media?

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Women in Sports Media

Andrea Joyce graduated from the University Michigan in 1976. She worked as a news/field reporter for TV stations in Denver, Detroit, Wichita Kansas, and Colorado Springs before landing a weekend sports anchor job at WFAA-TV... more
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Women in Sports Media

Ann Elizabeth Meyers Drysdale, a retired American basketball player and current sportscaster, was the first player to be part of the U.S. National team while still in high school. She was the first woman at UCLA to be signed to a... more
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Women in Sports Media

Michael Weisman attended the University of North Carolina on a baseball scholarship and graduated from Queens College with a bachelors of arts in radio television. In 1971 he started out at NBC as a page and tour guide for the... more
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Women in Sports Media

Gayle Sierens co-anchors WFLA-TV News Channel 8's Live at 5, 6 and 11PM newscasts in Tampa, FL. Sierens joined the Channel 8 staff in 1977 as a weekend sports anchor and reporter and became the 11PM weekday sports... more
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Dr. Donna Lopiano is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Women's Sports Foundation (1992-1997) and was named one of "The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports" by Fox Sports. The Sporting News has repeatedly listed her as on of... more
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Women in Sports Media

Michele Himmelberg blazed a trail for female sports journalists, working for equal access in the NFL. She is credited for opening the San Francisco 49'ers locker room to women. She is also co-founder of the Association for Women in Sports... more
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Women in Sports Media

Pam Ward joined ESPN in 1996 as an ESPNEWS anchor. Ward now serves as a play-by-play commentator on college football and women's college basketball. She has also calls WNBA games, as well as college baseball and softball, including... more
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Lesley Visser's name is associated with many "firsts" in the world of female sportscasting: First and only Woman Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. First Woman Assigned to Monday Night Football. First Woman Assigned to a... more
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Women in Sports Media

Donna De Varona was dubbed in 1962 the best all-round swimmer in the world by Sports Illustrated. At 17 she retired from swimming and began a career in sportscasting. She was one of the first women to appear consistently on network... more
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Women in Sports Media

Join me as I interview Joanne C. Gerstner. Joanne is a staff writer for espnW.com. She is an award-winning sports writer having covered the Olympics, NBA and college sports. Her work regularly appears in the New York... more
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