New York City-based Oxygen Media,Geraldine Laybourne's company founded to provide content for women, hasreached an agreement with Insight Communications to distribute the Oxygencable network. Insight is the 8th largest cable operator in the UnitedStates, serving more than one million customers in six states. Under theterms of the agreement, Insight Communications will launch Oxygen acrossthe majority of its systems. The new Oxygen cable network, which launcheson O2/O2/2000, will be integrated with Oxygen's existing online propertiesto create a "home base" for women on cable and the Internet. The new cablenetwork will offer original and diverse programming 24-hours-a-day,7-days-a-week, including X-CHROMOSOME, an animated primetime seriesspecifically targeting women (Animation Flash 6/15/99).
