Oprah Admits Her OWN Is Underachiever (Begs advertisers not to bolt from her flop cable network)

Deadline New York ^ | 4/16/11 | DAVID LIEBERMAN,

[jimbo123]

If you listened carefully, it sure sounded like Oprah Winfrey is starting to acknowledge what everybody else seems to know: that OWN -- her cable channel joint venture with Discovery Communications -- has been a disappointment since it was launched in January. “We’re all about raising this child, and it does indeed take a village,” the talk-show hostess told an audience of advertisers and ad buyers at Discovery's upfront presentation Thursday.

[jimbo123]

Flop.

[Balding_Eagle]

Maybe this time she could have The DOnald on instead.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Just touched and fawned all over America destroyer, POTUS Barak Hussein Obama and she flopped and fell just like all who touch the America hater, Obama!!!

[Marty62]

I bet the Advertizers were really wowed in this economy listening to O calling them to spend money on keeping her baby on the tit another quarter.

[trisham]

I watched her show off and on for a couple of weeks, but I was on prescription painkillers while recovering from surgery. I can’t imagine how anyone can watch it otherwise. Imho, my short viewership is a testimony to the strength of post-surgery drugs.

[ozark hilljilly]

More like P’WNed.

I saw ads and teasers for the network and I certainly wouldn’t want to watch. Programs about “Christian” homos and homeless pedophiles...who the hell is their demographic for this channel!?!

[DManA]

You just unsold half the country with that one O.

and it does indeed take a village,”

[momtothree]

I hope you heal very fast from your surgery. They must have been POWERFUL painkillers.... either you couldn’t reach the remote or the drugs made your brain all “liberal”. Either way, get better fast!!

[Nickname]

Pity her president’s razed the village.

[Nickname]

Did any of what you watched on drugs make sense? The last few times I watched her try to pass the bizarre off as normal I just kept shaking my head saying, What? WHAT?

[Bed_Zeppelin]

Did she forget to leave a check under each seat?

[JoeProBono]

[armymarinemom]

Anything associated with this lady starting with the letter O is a massive flop and underachieving endeavor. RUN advertisers RUN.

[Cicero]

Hey, Oprah, just explain to your good pal Hussein that it’s a VERY GREEN NETWORK, and he’ll throw a few billion your way! Green jobs, doncha know?

[Calvin Locke]

I probably would have walked out at that point, or quickly worked
through the possibilities on dumbing down my product or service
enough in order to appeal to the Oprah Demo.

[Realman30]

Other than whiners, losers, victims and ‘my man left me for another man type,’ . . . who cares? ? ?

[AAABEST]

The best thing she ever did was that movie where she gets a severe beating. I'm thinking of buying it and just playing that scene over and over.

Oprah can't get anything right lately. I hope she doesn't eat herself to death, like she nearly did when her movie flopped.

Oprah admits to eating 30 lbs of mac & cheese after finding out her movie was beat out by "Chuckie".

[MizSterious]

I can’t think of a single show on that network that’s worth watching. What a waste of bandwidth.

[MizSterious]

"and it does indeed take a village..."

Hah. To keep that network going, it's going to take a whole bunch of villages full of complete idiots, because no one else will watch it.

[Dr. Ursus]

If you drop my network,its because your a RACIST!