Multi-award-winning actress and co-host of ABC’s “The View” Whoopi Goldberg introduced Wednesday she is launching an all-women’s sports activities tv community referred to as AWSN (All Ladies’s Sports activities Community).
Goldberg made the announcement on NBC’s “The Tonight Present starring Jimmy Fallon.”
“It’s going to be the house for reside ladies’s sports activities from around the globe,” Goldberg advised Fallon. “All the pieces from soccer, basketball, tennis, cricket, curling, you identify it — if a girl is taking part in it, we’re exhibiting it.”
The community is partnering with CommonSpirit Well being, a community of medical suppliers targeted on ladies’s well-being, and Goldberg added that the channel is rising quickly – already launching in Asia, the Center East and India.
“I needed to do that as a result of ever since I used to be a bit child, I all the time needed to play sports activities,” she continued. “and [people] would say ‘hello, little woman’ and it all the time pissed me off.”
AWSN at the moment doesn’t have any U.S. suppliers listed on its website, however Goldberg teased a “huge announcement” coming the week of Nov. 11.
The community guarantees to characteristic “a few of the largest leagues on the earth corresponding to UEFA, FIBA, WTA, and WNBL” and goals “to fill international gaps in broadcasting standard ladies’s sports activities.”
“Athletics after they’re executed brilliantly, it would not matter who’s doing it,” Goldberg mentioned. “We do not actually have that relationship with ladies’s sports activities so I mentioned I want to do that and any individual after 16 years mentioned ‘My, what a good suggestion.'”
AWSN is just not the primary of its form, nonetheless. Women’s Sports Network (WSN) launched within the U.S. in 2022 and is at the moment obtainable on 9 separate suppliers, per its web site.
