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Message: [QUOTE="azfan, post: 3253810, member: 7748"] This article also informs I think the discussion by pay differentials in professional basketball. For example those of us looking forward to watching a WNBA game tomorrow first of all have the oppotunity to watch games at 4 rather than a more user-friendly 7 p.m. Further rather than on the ESPN flagship games are on NBA TV and ESPN3. This would be a rational decision on the part of the network based on their projection of potential audience interest. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/ewan-mackenna-gender-pay-gap-in-sport-is-justified-womens-games-cant-come-close-to-matching-the-mens-earning-power-36479865.html[/URL] A key statistic used on that '60 Minutes' broadcast back in 2016 and in the debate that followed was that the biggest ever US TV audience for a soccer game had tuned into the women's 2015 crowning glory. But comparing US men's and women's friendlies before their last respective World Cups, 70 per cent more tuned in to the men; comparing send-off games, that number was 87 per cent greater; in group games at those two tournaments, 212 per cent more watched the men. Even when you include that record 25 million who turned on the 2015 final, the US men outdrew the US women by 74 percent as an average across all World Cup games. On top of that, while broadcaster Fox brought in $17 million in ad revenue from women's games in 2015, ESPN brought in $529 million from the last men's tournament. That's all this really comes down to. [/QUOTE]

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