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UCLA's diversity report finds that minorities are still underrepresented on TV
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The Los Angeles Times, reporting on the annual study, notes that "overall, people of color remained underrepresented, considering they were 40% of the U.S. population in 2016... On TV, 18.7% of scripted broadcast leads, 20.2% of scripted cable leads and 12.9% of scripted digital leads were people of color."
TOPICS: Diversity, African Americans and TV, Asian Americans and TV, Latinx TV, Native Americans and TV
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