Posted on 11/05/2009 9:47:59 AM PST by OldDeckHand
THE END OF 'OPRAH' AS WE KNOW HER: Daytime Diva Giving Up Syndicated Talk Show & Moving To Her Cable Network In 2011
EXCLUSIVE: One of the biggest questions in the TV biz has been when, and even if, Oprah Winfrey would give up her daytime syndicated talk show to focus on OWN, her long delayed Oprah Winfrey Network in 70 million homes that was supposed to launch in place of the Discovery Health Channel as a joint venture between Winfrey and Discovery Communications. The industry has been betting that the daytime diva would extend The Oprah Winfrey Show for at least another year or two because of the huge cash license fees which stations have long paid her. But people around Oprah are telling me that won't happen. They say that Discovery Communications chief David Zaslav has demanded that Oprah "move it or lose it" -- move her talk show to OWN, or risk losing the Oprah Winfrey Network altogether. I've learned that in coming days Winfrey and Discovery will issue a press release announcing OWN's on-air launch for the start of 2011. And, in several weeks, Oprah will tell the public that she's ending her syndicated Chicago-based daytime talk show when her current deal runs out and moving it to OWN headquarters in Los Angeles probably as soon as mid-2011.
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And she will soon be named a CZAR...
She needed to save her investment by moving her show to her own channel IMO.
We’ll see how it goes.
It will be interesting to see how the viewers follow her or not.
She has been teaching new age religion for years. She was once a Baptist, and believed in Christ. Unless she repents she is on the side of the evil one.
Let her go!
Good riddance. Don’t let your big, wide butt hit the door!
I hope this is the worse financial mistake of her life (of course it has to be worse than supporting Obummer and his gang of miserable anti-capitalist) and will bankrupt her.
I am proud to say I have never watched one single Oprah TV talk show, so her leaving will have no effect on me at all.
As an aside, what's the difference between Hitler and Obama?
Hitler was able to get the Olympics to his country.
Oh boy another channel to add to my “blocked” list.
Not soon enough.
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