MSG Networks Celebrates Women’s Empowerment Month with a Lineup of Special Programming Throughout March
MSG Networks Celebrates Women’s Empowerment Month with a Lineup of Special Programming Throughout March
Commemorative Coverage Spotlights an Empowering Fashion Show, the Riveters Hockey Team and Women in Sports and Media
Original Features & Interstitial Content to Air Throughout Month
New York, NY (March 8, 2023) – MSG Networks today announced a month-long lineup of special programming in March to celebrate Women’s Empowerment Month, which will highlight the stories, contributions and lasting impact women have made across sports and culture in New York.
During its Women’s Empowerment Month initiative, MSG Networks will showcase the diversity and impact of women within the sports and media industry, with programming including:
Short-form content pieces spotlighting iconic women, such as Patsy Mink, Becky Hammon, Simone Biles and more, and will air during MSG Networks’ live games and across its digital platforms every evening.
Exclusive access to the Metropolitan Riveters, New York’s only professional women’s hockey team. MSG will repackage the recent match-up between the Riveters and the Boston Pride, as well as profile Riveter’s President Digit Murphy and interview players Madison Packer and Kelly Babstock.
In partnership with the New York Knicks, MSG Networks will highlight coverage of Unleashed NYC, a two-day summit beginning on March 24th. Vanessa Bryant, wife of Knicks Associate Head Coach Johnnie Bryant, is the founder of Unleashed, a soul-fueling summit curated to refuel and restore the mind, body and soul of women. The event will include empowering speakers and events and a debut fashion show featuring designers Vanessa Noel, Ann Dexter-Jones and Ese Azénabor.
“Rise of the Wahine: Champions of Title IX,” a full-length feature documentary that details the triumphant story of the University of Hawaii women’s volleyball team in the early 1970’s, who went all the way to Congress to fight for gender equality and changed the course of women’s sports forever.
All Women’s Empowerment Month programming airing in March will also be available on MSG GO, the network’s live streaming and video on demand platform.
About MSG Networks
MSG Networks, a pioneer in sports media, owns and operates two award-winning regional sports and entertainment networks and a companion streaming service that serve the nation’s number one media market, the New York DMA, as well as other portions of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The networks feature a wide range of compelling sports content, including exclusive live local games and other programming of the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres, as well as significant coverage of the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills. This content, in addition to a diverse array of other sporting events and critically acclaimed original programming, has established MSG Networks as the gold standard in regional sports. MSG Networks is a subsidiary of Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.
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