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| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Comcast Building, New York City, New York |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | NBCUniversal (Comcast) |
| Parent | NBCUniversal Media Group |
| Sister channels | |
| History | |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Launched | February 1, 2000 |
| Founder | |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial television | List
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| Streaming media | |
| Sling, YouTube TV, fuboTV, DirecTV Stream, Hulu + Live TV | |
| ClaroTV+ | (requires subscription to access content)
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Oxygen (branded on air as Oxygen True Crime) is an American television network owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of NBCUniversal (NBCU), a subsidiary of Comcast. The channel primarily airs true crime programming and dramas targeted towards women.
The network was founded by Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey, and carried a format focused on lifestyle and entertainment programming oriented towards women, similar to competing channels such as Lifetime. NBCU acquired the network in 2007; under NBCU ownership, the network increasingly produced reality shows aimed at the demographic, and was relaunched in 2014 to target a "modern", younger female audience. After the network experienced ratings successes with a programming block dedicated to such programming, Oxygen was relaunched in mid-2017 to focus primarily on true-crime programs. The channel initially operated as a cable network; in 2022, Oxygen began to also operate as a digital multicast television network on subchannels of NBC Owned Television Stations.
As of November 2023[update], Oxygen is available to approximately 59,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2012 peak of 80,000,000 households.[1] Under its current format, the network primarily competes with Investigation Discovery and HLN.[2]
- ^ "U.S. cable network households (universe), 1990 – 2023". wrestlenomics.com. May 14, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
- ^ Boboltz, Sara (July 6, 2017). "The Oxygen Channel Is Becoming A True-Crime, All The Time Network". HuffPost. Retrieved July 20, 2017.