CBS Sports Network will make history this fall.
The network will launch, “We Need to Talk,” the first general sports talk show with a women-only panel. The weekly program will debut on Sept. 30 at 9 p.m.
While there will have been other all-female sports shows, they primarily have focused on women sports. This one will cover the entire spectrum.
“From the moment news of the show spread, the reaction we’ve received has been nothing short of amazing,” said David Berson, president of CBS Sports Network. “We’ve been inundated with notes from women across the industry requesting to join the extraordinary women at CBS Sports to create a fun, unique and informative show for all sports fans.”
The rotating panel will include CBS Sports personalities such as Lesley Visser, Amy Trask, Tracy Wolfson, Dana Jacobson and Allie LaForce. They will be joined at various times by Andrea Kremer, Laila Ali, Dara Torres and Lisa Leslie, among others.
“This is nothing less than a cultural pivot point,” said Visser. “There are many shows that have a woman on, but not one that has a table filled with women. When I started covering sports in 1974, the credentials often said, ‘No Women or Children in the Press Box.’ Forty years later we are accepted as members of the media, assistant coaches (San Antonio Spurs) college officials and executives.
“We have learned to love sports the same way boys and men do–not all of them played the game either,” she said.
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