Oxygen (TV channel)

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Oxygen

Launched	February 2, 2000
Owned by	Oxygen Media
Slogan	She Did What?
Website	Official Site
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV	Channel 251
Dish Network	Channel 127
Cable
Verizon FiOS	Channel 124
Comcast	Channels Vary
Time Warner Cable	Channels Vary
Charter	Channels Vary
Cox Cable	Channels Vary
IO Digital Cable (Cablevision)	Channel 180
Bright House Networks	Channels Vary

Oxygen is an American cable television 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 parent company, Oxygen Media, is 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).

Its current original programming includes Banshee (original movie starring Taryn Manning), Campus Ladies, Bliss, Oprah After the Show, Talk Sex with Sue Johanson, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty, Snapped , Girls Behaving Badly and "The Bad Girls Club" a reality series. 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.