Geraldine Laybourne
 Geraldine Laybourne founded Oxygen Media and has served as its chairman and chief executive officer since its inception. Available in more than 69 million cable households, Oxygen airs bold, original series including “Campus Ladies,” "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency," and the live call-in show, "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson.” The network also operates www.oxygen.com. A pioneer in creating innovative and high-quality television programming for children, Laybourne spent 16 years at Nickelodeon, taking over the management of the network in 1984. Ms. Laybourne and her team were responsible for creating and building the Nickelodeon brand and, in 1985, for launching Nick at Nite, the successful primetime line-up of retro sitcoms. Prior to starting Oxygen, Ms. Laybourne was president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks (from 1996-1998) where she was responsible for overseeing current cable programming for the Walt Disney Company and its ABC subsidiary. User Stats
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Geraldine LaybourneRecent PostsCable Needs More WomenApril 9, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3) I am endlessly fascinated by the differences between men and women. I simply can’t read or hear enough about this topic. You’re thinking to yourself …. duh. Of course, women and men are different. I know. Even my three-year-old granddaughter has figured out that we’re different physically (she has a new baby brother … I don’t need to get into the questions she’s been asking). But what’s not as obvious is that our brains are different, too. The anthropologist, Helen Fisher, talks about women as “web thinkers.” We integrate information more quickly than men, we spot and understand nuance, we thrive on ambiguity and to us, context is everything. Men, in contrast, are laser focu...Read More Recent PostsWomen Love … TechnologyJanuary 18, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) This may come as a shock to many of you, but once upon a time, men ruled their television kingdoms with a remote. Back in the days of yore, technology allowed men to disconnect. After a busy day, guys would come home and the remote or VCR allowed them to surf through programs faster than you could say, “DVD.” But those dark days are over. Now television technology has moved far beyond the remote control, and women are leading the charge. Today, technology allows women to connect with their favorite shows -- when they want it, where they want it and who they watch it with. All of this at a time when the TV business is producing some of the best shows ever. DVRs, VOD, portable players and streaming video are fueling women’s passion for television. They use VOD with their kids, accessing the shows their kids love any time they want. They use ...Read More Recent PostsGive A Gal A ChanceNovember 3, 2006 | Link This | Email this | Comments (2) Election Day is one of my favorite days of the year. I love to vote. I love that every two years, every American over the age of 18 has an opportunity to have a major impact on the world we live in. Today – maybe more so than ever. While women make up 51% of the U.S. population, we represent just 15% of Congress. There are only 80 women serving in the U.S. Congress. We are No. 67 in the world for women’s political representation. We trail Bosnia, Zimbabwe and China. Not something we should be proud of. Social scientists say that a tipping point occurs when one constituency accrues a critical mass of 20% of a population. We are at the highest percentage we have ever been at in terms of women in congress, and yet we’re still only at 15%. When people talk about the leadership skills ...Read More
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