Katelyn Auty
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Whoopi Goldberg has announced the pending U.S. launch of the All Women’s Sports Network (AWSN), a new network that exclusively airs women’s sports. The first-of-its-kind network was announced during an appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” and is set to debut later this month.
“I’m launching the first global women’s sports channel,” Goldberg told Fallon. “It’ll be the home for live women’s sports from around the world. Everything from soccer, basketball, tennis, cricket, curling, you name it — if a woman is playing it, we’re showing it.”
According to the official website, the goal of AWSN is to “rectify the imbalance in sport representation, championing the cause of female athletes one step at a time.”
Goldberg shared with Fallon that AWSN is an idea 16 years in the making. She shared that as a child, she always wanted to play sports, but was discouraged from doing so, despite her brother’s active participation in them.
Goldberg emphasized the success of AWSN, telling Fallon that they’ve already launched in Asia, the Middle East, and India on JioTV. She also teased a big announcement about the U.S. launch in the coming week. Goldberg also added that she hopes female athletes can start having their own trading cards the way male athletes in other fields have been able to.
“I feel like that will help us show that athletics, when they’re done brilliantly…it doesn’t matter who’s doing it,” Goldberg shared. “We don’t really have that relationship with women’s sports.”