Multi-award-winning actress and co-host of ABC’s “The View” Whoopi Goldberg announced Wednesday she is launching an all-women’s sports television network called AWSN (All Women’s Sports Network).
Goldberg made the announcement on NBC’s “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.”
“It’ll be the home for live women’s sports from around the world,” Goldberg told Fallon. “Everything from soccer, basketball, tennis, cricket, curling, you name it — if a woman is playing it, we’re showing it.”
The network is partnering with CommonSpirit Health, a network of medical providers focused on women’s well-being, and Goldberg added that the channel is growing rapidly – already launching in Asia, the Middle East and India.
“I wanted to do this because ever since I was a little kid, I always wanted to play sports,” she continued. “and [people] would say ‘hi, little girl’ and it always pissed me off.”
AWSN currently does not have any U.S. providers listed on its website, but Goldberg teased a “big announcement” coming the week of Nov. 11.
The network promises to feature “some of the biggest leagues in the world such as UEFA, FIBA, WTA, and WNBL” and aims “to fill global gaps in broadcasting popular women’s sports.”
“Athletics when they’re done brilliantly, it doesn’t matter who’s doing it,” Goldberg said. “We don’t really have that relationship with women’s sports so I said I would like to do this and somebody after 16 years said ‘My, what a good idea.'”
AWSN is not the first of its kind, however. Women’s Sports Network (WSN) launched in the U.S. in 2022 and is currently available on nine separate providers, per its website.
