Will Women Take a Breath of Oxygen?

摘要

When the embryonic women's cable channel/Web network Oxygen posted a preliminary TV schedule online last fall, the blurb for Trackers-a teen girl-power show, sans "sugar and spice"-asked, "What's a girl to do once she's outgrown Nickelodeon?" Replace "girl" with "woman," and you have the question to which Oxygen chairwoman and CEO and former Nickelodeon president Geral-dine Laybourne is unveiling die answer. During 15 years at Nick, Laybourne made a tiny kids' channel into an omnipresent part of youths' lives; in 1998, after an unsatisfying two-year stint at Disney/ABC, she was ready to strike out on her own. So what's an ac- complished TV exec to do?