You think Oprah Winfrey is already the most powerful person on television? You have no idea.
Winfrey and Discovery Communications announced a deal today that will have the Discovery Health Channel given to Oprah and switched to The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN - really!). In return, Discovery gets Oprah's web site. I'm not really sure what getting to run Oprah's web site means for Discovery, but it will be part of the network.
I just hope that she doesn't do the same thing with the network that she does with her magazine, putting herself on the cover of every issue. Can you imagine a little Oprah icon in the corner of the screen all day and night? The network will debut in 2009 in 70 million homes.
So this means that Oprah now has a daily talk show, an XM radio channel, a magazine, she produces TV shows and movies, has a huge impact on book publishing, and now has an entire television network. OWN is an appropriate name for the new channel...
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1-15-2008 @ 2:39PM
Boomfoxx said...
Doesn't she already own Oxygen?
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1-15-2008 @ 3:39PM
Shane W. said...
NBC-Universal bought it back in October.
1-15-2008 @ 3:29PM
Scott said...
Can't we just declare her Queen already and put an end to this?
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1-15-2008 @ 4:00PM
JW said...
Maybe this means the end of Oprah on NBC?!? I know I am dreaming, but wouldn't it be great?
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1-15-2008 @ 4:26PM
Michael said...
Oprah is on CBS what r u talking about?
1-15-2008 @ 5:25PM
sitruc said...
I thought her main show was in syndication. I remember catching it on ABC a few times.
1-16-2008 @ 1:13PM
JW said...
I always thought it was on NBC, I moved from Alabama to Missouri and they both have it on NBC...oh well Dr. Phil is on CBS in St. Louis and is on NBC in Alabama.
1-15-2008 @ 6:08PM
eugene said...
good lord, how much longer will we have to put up with this person?
I guess however long it takes stupid people to start thinking for themselves... damnit!
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1-15-2008 @ 9:53PM
Lenny said...
This is just another one of the many recent "Kill Me Now®" moments.
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