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Whoopi Goldberg hopes to change the world of sports with her new women’s sports network
Whoopi Goldberg is starting a new project. While performing in “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon”, the EGOT winner announced her leap into the world of sports with the launch of the first global sports channel for women, All Women’s Sports Network (AWSN).
“I am launching the first global sports channel for women called AWSN (All Women’s Sports Network). It will be a place where women’s sports from around the world will be broadcast live,” Fallon said. “Everything from soccer, basketball, tennis, cricket, curling, you name it. If a woman is playing it, we show it.”
According to his websiteAWSN will probably be available in 65 countries and will probably be dedicated exclusively to women’s sports, including some of the biggest sports leagues in the world akin to the Union of European Association Football Associations (UEFA), the International Federation of Basketball (FIBA), the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and the National League Women’s Basketball (WNBL).
With the goal of increasing representation and filling a void in global broadcasting, Goldberg partnered with CommonSpirit and Jungo TV to co-found the network. Inspired by her childhood passion for sports, the artist claims that AWSN was 16 years in the making.
“Since I was a little child, I always wanted to play sports. My brother could play… he played everything,” Goldberg said, explaining why she was never able to play because of her gender. “So over the years I’ve talked to people and said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could go around the world and start taking young athletes into high schools so we could grow up with them?’ ?”
“I feel like it will help us show that athletics – if done brilliantly – doesn’t matter who does it. We don’t really have that connection with women’s sports,” she continued.
Goldberg says AWSN has already launched in Asia, the Middle East and on India’s JioTV this week.