Det var et studieværtspar, der i 1988 markerede monopolophøret på den gamle danske public service-station DR-TV. For første gang i sin 23-årige historie blev TV-Avisen præsenteret af et par, bestående af en mand og en kvinde. Siden da har der været flere iøjnefaldende ændringer i studieværtsfunktionen i dansk tv, der har med kønnet at gøre. I begyndelsen af 1990erne kom der en række markante kvindelige værter i underholdning og talkshow - så mange at det fik tidligere generaldirektør, Hans Jørgen Jensen til at råbe vagt i gevær.

Gennem en synkron kvantitativ analyse af studieværter i de fire nordiske lande kaster Vibeke Pedersen, Ulla B. Abrahamsson, Kathrine Skretting og Tarja Savolainen lys over sammenhængen mellem institutionelle forhold og kønskonstruktioner i norden. Forfatterne viser bl.a. at den øgede andel af kvindelige studieværter ikke kun skyldes fremskridt indenfor ligestilling, men også hænger sammen med den nye tv-udvikling, dereguleringen.

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It was a pair of newsreaders who in 1988 marked the end of the monopoly of the old Danish public service channel DR-TV. For the first time in its 23-year-old history, the television news was presented by a couple, a man and a woman. Since then, there have been several striking changes having to do with gender in the function of the newsreader in Danish television. In the beginning of the 1990s, a number of outstanding female hosts appeared in entertainment programmes and talk shows - so many that the former director general, Hans Jørgen Jensen, gave the alarm.

Through a synchronous quantitative analysis of presenters in the four Scandinavian countries, Vibeke Pedersen, Ulla B. Abrahamsson, Kathrine Skretting and Tarja Savolainen throw light on the connection between institutional conditions and gender construction in Scandinavia. The writers illustrate, among other things, that the increase in female hosts is not just a result of the progress of equal opportunity, but that it is also connected to the new development within television, de-regulation.

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