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 stay ladies’s sports activities from all over the world,” Goldberg informed Fallon. “The whole lot from soccer, basketball, tennis, cricket, curling, you title it — if a girl is enjoying it, we’re exhibiting it.”
The community is partnering with CommonSpirit Well being, a community of medical suppliers centered on ladies’s well-being, and Goldberg added that the channel is rising quickly – already launching in Asia, the Center East and India.
“I wished to do that as a result of ever since I used to be slightly child, I at all times wished to play sports activities,” she continued. “and [people] would say ‘hello, little lady’ and it at all times pissed me off.”
AWSN at present doesn’t have any U.S. suppliers listed on its website, however Goldberg teased a “massive announcement” coming the week of Nov. 11.
The community guarantees to function “a few of the largest leagues on the earth reminiscent of UEFA, FIBA, WTA, and WNBL” and goals “to fill international gaps in broadcasting common ladies’s sports activities.”
“Athletics once they’re accomplished brilliantly, it does not matter who’s doing it,” Goldberg stated. “We do not actually have that relationship with ladies’s sports activities so I stated I want to do that and someone after 16 years stated ‘My, what a good suggestion.'”
AWSN is just not the primary of its sort, nevertheless. Women’s Sports Network (WSN) launched within the U.S. in 2022 and is at present obtainable on 9 separate suppliers, per its web site.