Sports news on local TV broadcasts. The Sports Journal

(Winter 2004) published the results of a study conducted to assess the factors that affect the time allotted to sports news on local television news broadcasts. Information on total time (in minutes) allotted to sports and on audience ratings of the TV news broadcast (measured on a 100-point scale)

was obtained from a national sample of 163 news directors.

A correlation analysis of the data yielded r = .43.

a. Interpret the value of the correlation coefficient r.

b. Find and interpret the value of the coefficient of determination r 2.