Two women and only one man are rumoured to be filling the shoes of departing Gary Lineker on Match Of The Day, and on Tuesday a trio of women presented BBC Sports Personality Of The Year (Keely Hodgkinson being the fourth woman in a row to win).
JENNI MURRAY: I never thought I'd say it, but there are too many women presenting sport on TV I’m now going to write something I never imagined I’d ever think, let alone express in public: too many women are being hired to present iconic sports programmes on the BBC.
Gabby Logan, Alex Scott and Clare Balding presented this week's Sports Personality of the Year, which was won by athlete Keely Hodgkinson, the fourth woman in a row to lift the award.
After all, I began my BBC broadcasting career as far back as 1973 and spent most of it campaigning for women’s voices to be heard.
It was virtually impossible to imagine a woman reading the BBC news until Angela Rippon managed to break through that barrier in 1975.
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