To celebrate Whoopi Goldberg's birthday on "The View" on Wednesday, she came with gifts for the audience and a major announcement — the ABC host officially launched a new TV network devoted entirely to women's sports.

Whoopi Goldberg is embarking on a new initiative that surely a lot of people didn’t see coming. What is that initiative you ask? Why only a brand new women's sports network — something she gave more details about on the Wednesday night episode of "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,

Whoopi Goldberg is launching a sports platform for women. During a taping of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” she announced the launch of All Women’s Sports Network (AWSN), which has already broken ground in Asia,

Whoopi Goldberg, EGOT winner, producer, and advocate for equality, and international streaming media company JungoTV, announced the launch of All Women’ (AWSN), the first global media channel dedicated exclusively to showcasing women’s sports,

If a woman is playing it, we’re showing it,” says Whoopi Goldberg on her new global women’s sports network, AWSN. […]

Our goal is to have the largest distributed female sports network in the world, digital or broadcast,’ Co-Founder Whoopi Goldberg says

With women's sports receiving less than 10 percent of total coverage, Goldberg's new global network arrives as a game-changing platform.