Posted on 05/08/2012 12:17:30 PM PDT by F15Eagle
The losses at Oprah Winfreys troubled cable channel are approaching a staggering $330 million, according to a report over the weekend.
Industry insiders believe the channel - the Oprah Winfrey network (OWN) - will not last another year unless they come up with a hit show and make a dramatic turnaround.
Though ratings have seen a slight insurgence thanks to interview program Oprah's Next Chapter, it has stumbled since the get go with ratings of just 308,000 daily.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140773/Oprahs-OWN-network-Losses-approach-330m-amid-predictions-axed-year.html#ixzz1uJ6yktdF
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Losses at Oprah's OWN approach a staggering $330m as industry insiders predict it will be axed within the year
She needs to have Obama on.
toobadsosad....lol
I for one am happy to see her go. She can take her queer President with her.
Gee, Oprah, if you haven’t figured out your lost popularity to your racist attitude and lies to your very supportive audience of white women.
Oprah made a fortune in the Bush-Clinton-Bush years and lost most of it during the Obama years.
But what will happen to the ton of white people Oprah brags about working for her? /sarc
She's one of Eric Holder's people, so you can be sure that it is coming out of somebody else' pocket.

"Hey, whe're da white women at?"
Ha ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahaha...the racist b!tch deserves it. Oprah can STFU and KMA.
Amen to that.
How about CBS thinking they’re soooo smart they installed Gayle King as part of a “news” lineup for early morning?
It was nothing more than an attempt to “Oprah” the news.
That already exists with George StepAllOverSlobberingObamaPolous and Matt ObamaLapdogLauer.
The real big problem with Oprah is she left over the air tv.
Far larger audience. Huge fish in the over-the-air pond, just one of hundreds of channels in the cable ocean. On top of that she had far less expenses doing a 1-hour SHOW versus putting up funding (or at least part of it) an ENTIRE NETWORK on cable.
On top of that, she lost audience (cable or free tv, wouldn’t matter) when she blowjobbed for Obama in 2008. That wasn’t coming back no matter where she wound up.
Next on the agenda: a bailout of Oprah and her network.
The real big problem with Oprah is she left over the air tv.
Far larger audience. Huge fish in the over-the-air pond, just one of hundreds of channels in the cable ocean. On top of that she had far less expenses doing a 1-hour SHOW versus putting up funding (or at least part of it) an ENTIRE NETWORK on cable.
On top of that, she lost audience (cable or free tv, wouldn’t matter) when she blowjobbed for Obama in 2008. That wasn’t coming back no matter where she wound up.
Who had the bright idea that anyone would want to watch old Oprah shows?
I am 48, Christian, white, vote Republican, and I stay home with my kid. I drive a mini-van and we homeschool. I have no doubt Oprah views me and my types as a virtual pox on humanity.
Therefore, I don’t watch her crap and haven’t for about 10+ years now.
Here’s hoping taht Oprah exits the airwaves and is put out to pasture with her Obama slobbering soulmate Phil Donahue.
Along with all her buddies.
She’s a former Jeremiah Wright disciple.
Not that anyone should be surprised.
I believe she was worried because her free-tv rating numbers were going down, and after all this time (plus 08 Obama) it wasn’t a surprise that eventually she’d start losing ratings, but still this was a lesser problem than jumping over to cable on her own network channel.
She still would have done better staying on over the air, even if she was still losing ratings. She’d still have had more people watching.
That said I feel no sympathy or sadness she’s been hit by a hard downturn from her own bad business decisions. Everything that’s been negative in her business life is because of things she has done. You made bad and/or unpopular choices, and when you live by your popularity, you die by it too.
Oprah’s ratings were falling and the local TV affiliates were bawking at paying higher and higher rates to carry her show.
The jig is up.
Yep, her huge support for the commie BO and the Mooch lost her audience. Seems thing went downhill from there for the touchy/feely queen of America.
I agree. I stopped watching her in 1997 when figured out she a racist.
Well, afterall a case could be made that Oprah is “too big to fail.”
OMG — Oprah “blanked” Obama in 2008????
That’s a visual I could do without, but I see your point...............
Does your husband wear a bow tie?

What did they spend all that money on?
It sure could not have been programming
Gee, it couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
Oprah on ‘white folk’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmtPuPbVgU
Gee, it couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
Oprah on ‘white folk’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmtPuPbVgU
And gone!
Typical of the Jeremiah Wright racist bunch, she and her buddy Barry.
Oprah was also making excuses for islam in the immediate wake of 9/11.
“She needs to have Obama on.”
Rush was right when he said that was the beginning of the end for Oprah; she went from “post-racial” to “racist”, and the white women left in droves...
I thought she bailed on Wright after a relatively short period of time.
Great opportunity for a group of wealthy conservatives to take it over, I’m sure Rush would be able to put together a group of investors, I think a conservative TV venue could be very profitable, especially if they offer public stock, I would invest.
Yeah but she was already part of his bizarre “theology” - she acts like a Cone disciple (one of Wright’s influences).
Oprah: “WHAT ABOUT Jesus??????”
Oprah: “There couldn’t possibly be (one way)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETeI6i5oqh4
Hey “O”, how’s that hope and change working for you now?
Cool! A three hundred thirty million dollar loss means that much less money for some stinking liberal “foundation” to spend against decent people after Oprah exits “this mortal coil.”
And remember, the three of them (Ohole, Mooch and Okra) all got collectively b1tch-slapped when they effed up trying to get the Olympics. Thinking their mere presence alone would be more than enough to guarantee Chicago getting the games. Also all their insider friends who had land that would have been developed for the games.
The Olympics cmtte is just high school on PC steroids. But seeing Obama and Okra shot down by them was incredibly precious. The average Chicagoan probably was happy as well as it would have made life so much worse there getting all that crap ready.
I remember that. It was early in his term and it was greatness when the Won and his thug entourage failed to impress the Olympic committee. The first great failure with many more that followed. People and leaders around the world don’t like the Obamas.
Could this possibly mean Oprah is not...The One?
I think it means the OWN is getting pwned.
It's the Obama curse. Everything he takes an interest in tanks. He's the anti-Midas.
I always loved the picture of Michelle in the Gold shirt and Obama in his Neru (???) shirt sitting at the table. That's the REAL them.
hahaha, I’m saving that gif for later
LMAO!!
Love the new-and-improved “that’s racist” child graphic as well ...
Pubic edumacation nos know bounds the teachers train'em all the same.
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