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Country | United States |
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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]