- published: 19 May 2016
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Oxygen is an American cable television specialty channel with television programming marketed towards women, with a format similar to Lifetime.
The privately held company Oxygen Media was founded in 1998 by former Nickelodeon executive Geraldine Laybourne, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and producers Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach (of Carsey-Werner fame). The company's cable network Oxygen launched on February 2, 2000.
TV studios were initially located at Battery Park City near the World Trade Center. It was knocked off the air on September 11, 2001; the Time-Warner all-news cable television channel NY1 was broadcast to all Oxygen subscribers across the country until the studio reopened within a week after the attack.
The network's studios have subsequently consolidated in the Chelsea Market, a former Nabisco factory at 15th Street and Ninth Avenue in New York.
The channel originally began as an interactive service focusing on original programming with some reruns (such as Kate & Allie), and featured a black bar at the bottom of the screen (referred to as "the stripe" it occupied the bottom 12% of the screen) which would show various information (the interactive part involved the channel's website); the technique was cloned by Spike's precursor The New TNN. Today, the stripe has long been dropped, and the channel focuses chiefly on reality shows, reruns, and movies, and airs week-after repeats of The Tyra Banks Show and is directed towards women. The yoga/meditation/exercise program "Inhale" was the last inaugural Oxygen program on air into the channel's NBC Universal era, albeit in repeats. It was canceled in 2010.
I tried to get away from your burning lips
I didn't want to play with your burning lips
I tried to get away from the flame but the flame tossed my heart
And I'm captured yes I'm captured
I'm enraptured by your charms
I can't hold out I've been sold out
By the thrills I found locked in your arms
The moment that our eyes met I realized
Another moment more and I'd be hypnotized
I tried to turn away from your eyes but your eyes held me fast
And I'm captured yes I'm captured
There is nothing I can do
I can't back track there's no track back
I am yours heaven open it's doors
And as I wandered through
(Captured by you)
Captured by you