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Oprah’s Cable Channel Flickers to Life (Boycott Oprah and Her Sponsors)
NY Times ^ | 1/1/11 | BRIAN STELTER

Posted on 01/01/2011 2:25:48 PM PST by jimbo123

At precisely 12 o’clock on New Year’s Day, Oprah Winfrey welcomed television viewers to OWN, a cable channel that she has said will espouse her “live your best life” mantra.

OWN, short for The Oprah Winfrey Network, flickered to life in about 85 million television households in the United States, replacing the Discovery Health Channel. It is the highest-profile new cable channel in over a decade, and it represents an enormous risk for Ms. Winfrey, who is ending her daytime talk show later in the year.

“Happy New Year,” Ms. Winfrey said, “and welcome to OWN.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: boycott; lesbian; obama; oprah
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To: originalbuckeye

21 posted on 01/01/2011 2:44:56 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: w1andsodidwe

One big commercial for Obama which is really an oxymoron because all of TV fawns over him.


22 posted on 01/01/2011 2:45:35 PM PST by Frantzie (Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
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To: latina4dubya

Oprah is insane but she certainly isn’t stupid.


23 posted on 01/01/2011 2:46:27 PM PST by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: rambo316

oprah - the typical leftwing hypocrite....

Thru free market capitalism, earned $3 BILLION

Now that she has her wealth, preaches socialism - a proven path to poverty for the serfs.


24 posted on 01/01/2011 2:47:17 PM PST by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: jimbo123

I would love to ask billionaire Oprah how she feels about the middle class (ie “rich”) Americans who can no longer afford to send their children to college thanks to Obama...or about the lower class citizens who will now die thanks to Obama.


25 posted on 01/01/2011 2:49:23 PM PST by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: Izzy Dunne

“Is it possible to boycott something you’ve never watched?”

Easier to just say I will never watch. The best thing that could ever happen to cable/satellite TV offerings would be a requirement for a la carte. Then all the crap like MTV, VH1 and now OWN would never survive because people would never order them. There are only a few channels worth paying for and they support the ash and trash of TV land.


26 posted on 01/01/2011 2:50:25 PM PST by rustyboots
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To: Frantzie
Screw TV - ALL of it.

That's the best idea I've heard all year. But seriously, I'm thinking of cancelling my satellite service, even though without it I'd have no TV reception at all.

27 posted on 01/01/2011 2:51:50 PM PST by giotto
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To: jimbo123

I have locked out the fat lesbian channel from my receiver.

LLS


28 posted on 01/01/2011 2:52:04 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a dim to enter the kingdom of GOD!)
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To: jimbo123

from the Boston Herald:
O no: Oprah’s cable lineup isn’t must-see TV
Mark A. Perigard
Thursday, December 30, 2010
How does the nation’s most powerful TV star launch a cable network?

By exploiting some of the most mediocre ideas out there, apparently.

Syndicated talk show host Oprah Winfrey transforms the channel Discovery Health into the Oprah Winfrey Network - OWN - Saturday at noon.

Her new programs cover everything from sexual healing to domestic dumps and draw on the Winfrey stable of stars.

“In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman” (Monday at 10 p.m.) is a “Suze Orman Show” for those with intimacy issues.

In the premiere, the sex and relationship therapist travels to Wisconsin to help a couple out of sync after 15 years of marriage. The wife uses a laundry basket to pleasure herself.

The husband complains, “An inanimate object is better than I am.”

The talk becomes much more explicit, if you can imagine, and demonstrates just how much some people will reveal about their private lives in front of a TV camera. I’m not sure anyone in America is old enough for this show.

Workaholic parents face off against their bitter, neglected offspring in “Kidnapped by the Kids” (Saturday at 1 p.m.), a contrived, poorly executed reality series.


29 posted on 01/01/2011 2:53:04 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: jimbo123

I was always ambivalent about Oprah until she succumbed to the liberal race identity syndrome and pimped for Barack Hussein Obama, a socialist politician with very questionable associations, a carefully hidden background and basically no resume - but a lot of alleged ‘charisma’. He was greatly aided by the media fawning over and proselytizing for him with Oprah right in the middle of it. Kissing up to the mixed-race liberal ‘messiah’ and helping him con the American people into electing a man who despises America and is determined to bring it to it’s knees, financially and otherwise, while exercising his totalitarian impulses to control everything we eat, drive, do or say while laughing at our constitution and the congress. No, I definitely won’t be watching Oprah’s cable channel.


30 posted on 01/01/2011 2:53:17 PM PST by Jim Scott
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To: newfreep

Oprah is the type of monster who can build a school in Africa while watching a million American children die from long emergency room waiting times. Hypocritical and inhuman.


31 posted on 01/01/2011 2:54:29 PM PST by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: jimbo123

I can remember when Oprah was the black, female Jerry Springer.


32 posted on 01/01/2011 2:55:01 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: w1andsodidwe

I liked watching “Trauma: Life in the ER.” I was very disappointed to hear this news yesterday.


33 posted on 01/01/2011 3:00:04 PM PST by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
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To: jimbo123

Why bother boycotting? Just ignore it.


34 posted on 01/01/2011 3:03:55 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: jimbo123
Oprah is obama in drag; she puts on a good front, but she is all about black, all the time.

Going cable is going to cost her a lot of viewers, as the economy gets suckier, people will drop the non-essentials first.

I hear she is giving rosie o'donnell another show...that's reason enough to boycott her "network" as it is.

Even the names of it, "OWN", sounds very obamaesque...
35 posted on 01/01/2011 3:04:27 PM PST by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I know, it makes you wish you watched her so you could stop watching her in protest.


36 posted on 01/01/2011 3:06:21 PM PST by FrdmLvr (Death to tyrants)
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To: jimbo123; RandallFlagg
Test Subject 19: Death at 2 hours, 1 minutes, 7 seconds.

Termination following Second Event. Subject's brain stem partially reanimated after watching Oprahvision. Standard Walker behavior:


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

37 posted on 01/01/2011 3:06:30 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: jimbo123

OPRAH who????


38 posted on 01/01/2011 3:08:27 PM PST by bikerman (Where Has My America Gone?)
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To: w1andsodidwe

Discovery Health was one of my favorite channels, too. I was very upset to hear that she was taking it over.


39 posted on 01/01/2011 3:08:31 PM PST by FrdmLvr (Death to tyrants)
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To: FrankR

Procter & Gamble Co. signed an advertising pact valued at more than $100 million with the Oprah Winfrey Network, according to people familiar with the matter, as the television-ad market continues to strengthen.

P&G’s deal with OWN spans three years, following the network’s planned debut next January, the people said. It includes ad time and integrating P&G’s products into some OWN shows, said another person familiar with the deal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704133804575197952472441156.html


40 posted on 01/01/2011 3:09:05 PM PST by jimbo123
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