Their share keeps growing. Median age was also 30 in 1972 survey. And was roughly 30 for our WHAS News staff in the Creation years of the 1950s. TV newspeople, on average, have always been young. And for women, marriage often brought motherhood that took them from the TV workplace.
Women typically stay at a station only half as long as men.
Where They Are The numbers are in the larger markets. The larger the market, the more stations and the larger the news staffs. Two-thirds of the survey respondents were located in the 25 largest of the nation's 210 markets. More than half were in the 50 largest. Only one in five was working in markets below 100 rank.