Oxygen
-- Multichannel News, 1/29/2001
NEW YORK -Oxygen's sports division last week unveiled a number of marquee events it plans to televise this year and an all-star advisory board that will help guide its efforts.
Oxygen Sports' 2001 lineup will feature exclusive coverage of several women's sports events, including: the WTA Pan Pacific Tennis Open from Tokyo; the Women's Ice Hockey championships from Minneapolis; the Avon Global Running Champion-ships from Budapest, Hungary; and the World Cup Gymnastics Finals from Glasgow, Scotland.
Dale Arnold, longtime announcer for the Boston Bruins, and Stacy Wilson, captain of the 1998 Canadian Olympic ice hockey team, will broadcast the Women's World Ice Hockey championships.
To complement the TV coverage, Oxygen will feature OxygenSports.com, a site that will boast an advisory board including Olympic gymnastics legend Nadia Comaneci, ice hockey star Cammi Granato, track-and-field sensation Jackie Joyner-Kersee, swimming great Janet Evans and speed-skating star Bonnie Blair. The group will share its knowledge with OxygenSports.com's audience through its participation in chats and by offering input on a variety of topics.
