Why are there so few women on radio?

Question

Even on the so-called WOR (women on radio) in NYC, it's a complete sausage fest.

Is it because men are more auditory than women and listen to radios more, therefore since the listeners are male, the people on radio are male?

Answer 1

maybe females have better things to do.

Answer 2

I think it might be a major market thing or at the least because of the format appealing more on WOR to men than women.

I know in my region, woman are on all formats rock, urban, talk, country, pop ...... and there are actually two women on the local talk radio.... Both are the talent, not just news readers or traffic people.

I'm in a region with two of the top 50-100 arbitron rated markets

Answer 3

obviously you people ave never heard of a man named Tom Leykis, who covers this topic quite frequently on his show. First off, people do not care about womens veiws on things, typically. So you have a woman on the talk show. In order for women to listen, they would have to talk about fashion, celebrities, gossip, c**p like that. However, it is widely proven in radio that women are not the gender that keep listening, men are. and men do not want to hear a women talk about news and all that. I live in Los Angeles, where there is only one radio talk show with a women as the "talent", and it does horrible in the ratings. as far as some people saying their area has women, I gaurentee they have no national credibility, and most mentioned were djs, which is not the same thing.

Answer 4

On Philly's Q102, there's Lisa Paige and Jessie Jordan as DJ's, so women have some power in radio land.

Answer 5

It's a Man's World!

You can go to kommando.com and click on your state to see if The Goddess of Electronics Talk Show is on in your area.

She broadcasts out of Pheniox every Saturday Morning

She knows everything about all Electronic Gadgets.

We have several daytime Female DJ's in our Market.

Depends on where you land as to how many Females are on the air.

Talk Radio has a lock on Men on both sides of the spectrum.

Answer 6

Dunno about NYC, but I've worked with women all of my career. At more than one station, a woman was the most popular with the listeners because she was the best.

As a male, I'd rather hear a female any day.