Divorce Three of every 10 TV newspeople who have been married have also been divorced. But, as Table 4 shows, despite being younger, women have a higher divorce rate than men. The divorce rate is twice as high for those with job-related marital problems as for other newspeople. TV newswomen mirror other women in being more likely divorced than men. News anchors are TV's divorce champions, with assignment editors and news directors in place and show.
Sportscasters finish last.
But the rates of divorce and job-related marriage problems don't correlate perfectly across positions. Executive producers, with the most such problems, still hang in there for one of the lowest divorce rates. Probably no worse in TV news than in most other occupations. The median of 48 hours is the same for men and women, with insignificant differences by race and age. Weathercasters, the shortest, 40.