Anne Sanders: TV needs more female execs
“Half of the audience are female," says Seven presenter. But half the execs are not.
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Good call by the always-classy Anne Sanders who tells media she laments that there are not more women in television executive roles.
“There are a fantastic number of women now in journalism both on camera, on the road and producing,” the Seven News presenter told News Corp.
“There’s a wonderful young set of really talented women who are striving and working really hard and I think they are going to achieve a lot in the future.
“I hope that with that new talent will come more positions in authority, positions in power because I think it would balance things out a bit more.
“Half of the audience are female and it might represent the viewers a bit more, it might even it out a bit more.”
Five years ago TV Tonight asked all networks to advise of their female execs which you can read here.
Might be time to update the list!
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Agree with Gaz. Think Anne Sanders has the best speaking voice for TV, have always been a big fan of hers and could listen to her all day.
In other words, “fewer male executives”!
How about more executives with original ideas, more executives who don’t treat the audience with contempt, more executives with imagination and drive, more executives with the balls to aspire to excellence instead of mediocrity, more executives who can unite and inspire audiences?
I don’t know what Ann Sanders is getting at. Commercial TV ‘news’ is awful! It is style over substance, patronising and an insult to anyone with any intelligence.
Totally agree with Anne Sanders. And on another note, I could listen to Anne read the phone book, always classy, warm, and professional.
Let’s also shine a light on the women who struggling with News and Current affairs .. NOT:
“In real life, the executive producer dominates the life of anyone who works on a television current affairs program. Like the captain of a warship, he or she determines every aspect of the working life of the hands before the mast. What stories you work on; who you work with; how long you are given to do a story (and therefore, how many 18 hour days per week you have to work); whether your career flourishes or stagnates; whether you arrive each morning full of vigour, or of dread – the executive producer determines it all.
Yep.
theage.com.au/comment/women-run-the-show-smart-polite-curious-driven-20150505-ggu3ne.html?rand=6023936
Men are doing such a great job right now at TEN, Nine and Seven… why would you let a woman have the keys to executive toilet….
Interestingly the most watched shows are made for the female demographic 18-60…
Border Security … Female at the top
Masterchef … Female at the top
The Voice … Female at the top
.. just saying
Explains a lot. I don’t watch any of them!
Love Anne, always the soothing voice of wisdom! I miss her as the anchor, but glad she’s still got a day time start 🙂
Maybe when we have female execs we might get more ‘decorative’ male newsreaders & hosts on our news & current affairs shows. We need more males in these roles. LOL
Anne, Seven has been there and done that. In the early 2000s Seven had a woman named Maureen Plavsic running the place. It was a disaster. Seven suffered some of their worst ratings on record. Nine also appointed a woman to their board in the late Noughties and that ended in tears as well, quite literally. I’m sure no TV network would ever want to go down that road again.
And I’m sure no network would agree with your stance, because there are already women in similar roles now -just not enough of them.
Wow, sexism is alive and well. Obviously all of Seven’s problems back then were because someone with two X chromosomes was in charge. Just like Ten’s recent troubles… oh, wait.