Oxygen, also known as Oh!, is an Americancabletelevision channel. It is currently available in over 71 million homes. The company was founded in 1998, and its cable network launched on February 2, 2000. Oxygen carries programming aimed at young women. Its former parent company, Oxygen Media, was privately held and was founded by Geraldine Laybourne, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and producers Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach (of Carsey-Werner fame). It is now owned by NBC Universal. Campus Ladies, Bliss, Oprah After the Show, Talk Sex with Sue Johanson, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, Snapped , Girls Behaving Badly and The Bad Girls Club a reality series are some of the signature shows on the channel. Geraldine Laybourne is the channel's founder, chairman, and CEO. Competitors to the channel include Lifetime and We. Oxygen has been available on DirecTV for many years, and arrived on the Dish Network in early 2006. The network originally began as an interactive network focusing on original programming with some reruns (such as Kate & Allie), and featured a black bar at the bottom of the screen which would show various information (the interactive part involved the channel's website). Today, the black bar has since been dropped, and the network focuses chiefly on reruns, reality shows, and movies (although some talk related programming is still shown). "Inhale", one of the first Oxygen original shows, continues to air on the channel today. On October 9, 2007, NBC Universal announced it would be purchasing Oxygen for $925 million. [1] The sale was completed on November 20, 2007. [2]
Co-owned with Microsoft in a joint venture (82% owned by NBC, 18% owned by Microsoft).
The stations are co-owned with LIN TV in a joint venture (76% owned by NBC, 24% owned by LIN). KNSD also includes a repeater used for rebroadcast of Entravision's KBNT-CA.
Owned by Commercial Broadcasting Corp., and operated by the NBC / LIN joint venture (see note 3)
A joint venture between NBC Universal and its broadcast affiliates.
New York City, New York, United States
