Whoopi Goldberg launches first global women’s sports channel

Ever since she was a small child, she said she wanted to do sports Actress Whoopi Goldberg Beginning of November bei Jimmy Fallons „The Tonight Show“. Preferably ice hockey. But unlike her brother, who played baseball and basketball, Goldberg wasn’t encouraged to play a sport as a girl. She lacked female role models she says.

The American actress addressed an everyday topic and problem in the sports landscape. Even though women’s sport has developed rapidly in many countries in recent years, Sporting events still receive far less attention in the media and on television than those of men.

This is where Goldberg comes in and recently released a format that has never existed in this form before: the first global women’s sports channel, called AWSN (All Women’s Sports Network). The platform will be a “home for live broadcasts and sporting events anywhere in the world,” Goldberg said on the talk show. “Whether it’s football, tennis, cricket or curling – if a woman plays it, then we show it.”

individual Streaming providers such as DAZN have already become established in recent years, but mostly in a local area. AWSN, on the other hand, will in future only show women’s sports around the clock in 65 countries. The program is currently available in parts of Asia and the USA. There are a few included in the program of the biggest leagues in the world: UEFA, FIBA, WTA, and the WNBL.

What was the trigger for founding the network? “Because none exists yet and that’s ridiculous,” Goldberg responds in an interview on the AWSN website. The 69-year-old’s project was in planning for around 16 years. “It took that long until someone finally told me: Good idea,” she says on Jimmy Fallon. “I think if sport is done brilliantly then it doesn’t matter who is on the field. But we don’t have that relationship with women’s sports yet.”