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Oprah Winfrey's Television Network Plans Relaunch After Viewers Drift Away [Go Away!]
Telegraph(UK) ^ | October 08, 2011 | Jacqui Goddard

Posted on 10/08/2011 8:35:07 PM PDT by Steelfish

Oprah Winfrey's Television Network Plans Relaunch After Viewers Drift Away Oprah Winfrey is said to be preparing a $15 million relaunch for her struggling television network, just 10 months since its inception, after its prime-time viewership tumbled by more than one third.

By Jacqui Goddard 08 Oct 2011

The one-time queen of daytime television, who retired from The Oprah Winfrey Show on CBS in May, after 25 years, is to launch an advertising blitz and take a bigger on-screen role in her new cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network, in an attempt to win back lost ratings.

She will be stepping up her role in Oprah's Lifeclass, a nightly programme resurrecting old episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show, in addition to pushing ahead with previous plans for hosting Oprah's Next Chapter, a chat-show set to air from January. She will also conduct online discussions with fans over the internet, in front of a live studio audience.

The rescue package comes after officials at Discovery Network, OWN's partner channel, expressed concern that viewers were tuning out because the star on whose name and image OWN is based and marketed fails to appear often enough.

"With the numbers for OWN being so horrible, Discovery insisted that Ms Winfrey have more of a presence on the network. So they're scrambling," a source said to be close to the network told Fox News.

Now, instead of simply providing a voice-over commentary for Oprah's Lifeclass, as originally planned, Ms Winfrey, 57, will appear on screen.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: 4rcane
Now that's funny.. She destroyed that Network,and should just retire and go away.
21 posted on 10/08/2011 9:49:50 PM PDT by samantha (Sarah is our TEAple. leader for America the Beautiful...)
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To: Steelfish

22 posted on 10/08/2011 9:54:22 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tainan

“If she wants to waste her money...its her bidness....but...she shoulda just bought a boat.”

She’s gonna need a bigger boat.


23 posted on 10/08/2011 10:22:17 PM PDT by Daniel II (Really??????)
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To: Steelfish

The Lesbo network.


24 posted on 10/08/2011 10:29:19 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I never understood that myself. I guess she thought she could just coast by on her “brand” but without a daily show, it is wearing out quick.

Also her support of obama cost her dearly, thou she will never admit it. Getting political like that cost her many watchers that have moved on to other things now.


25 posted on 10/08/2011 10:32:00 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: packrat35

She kept nonpolitical until Obama arrived on the scene, huh. Her hero then promptly fell on his face.

25 years, I can hardly believe it, but she was a classic even though many people couldn’t stand her and she was wildly wrong on a lot of issues. I guess I could see too how she thought she had cemented her fame and could take a breather. Too bad for Oprah that people didn’t turn out to love Oprah like they loved Lucy.


26 posted on 10/08/2011 10:50:23 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Steelfish

She’s doubling down. Good. I hope she spends her last nickel on this albatross.


27 posted on 10/08/2011 11:03:16 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Tainan

LOL!! I like you!


28 posted on 10/08/2011 11:31:37 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Well, people are well nigh tired of so many things from the past these days. Oprah is no longer relevent since she is no longer the sole source of a lot of things going on today. Plus, there are more pressing things to think about than her latest freak show topic. Like a lot of other tleevision personalities, she has had her heyday, has more than enough money, and is now at this point part of a carefree past that no longer exists. When things are carefree again, she will at that point be part of the past, not present. Such is entertainment that people easily and quickly move on.


29 posted on 10/08/2011 11:31:50 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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30 posted on 10/08/2011 11:32:12 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lurker

She’ll end up bankrupting herself before she is able to revive her fanbase the way it used to be.


31 posted on 10/08/2011 11:33:18 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Yankee

Yeah - and getting on the plane to Copenhagen to grovel for the Olympics - thinking she’s all. Well show’m in Copenhagen - we’ll bring in all the heavy brass! LOL! So happy they dropped them like a greasy french fry!


32 posted on 10/08/2011 11:36:16 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Oprah started becoming less appealing when she started interfering in things beyond the latest trendy cause. On televison she came off as benign, but when she started to pull stuff like trying to interfere in the election for the Olympics, that is when she started to become seen as a power hungry loon who wanted power and influence beyond her ability. The Olympics wasn’t her business and she had no excuse to shove herself around dignitaries and try ot pull off something more than just being famous.


33 posted on 10/08/2011 11:37:12 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: presently no screen name

I still can’t get over how she actually had the gall to do that. Worst example (among others) of celebrity interference on foreign soil since. Celebrities are the worst people to send since other cuntries look down on entertainers more than they admire them.


34 posted on 10/08/2011 11:38:53 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Niuhuru
I still can’t get over how she actually had the gall to do that

She's part of the chicago crowd - gall is part of their menu there. Doubt oprah thinks anyone looks down on her. She thinks money buys character, integrity and class. All it bought her was too many twinkies.
35 posted on 10/09/2011 12:25:07 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Steelfish
If I wanted to see a loud mouthed overweight Obama loving Black Woman I would hang out at Walmart.

No offense meant to loud mouthed overweight Black Women that loathe Obama who shop at Walmart.

36 posted on 10/09/2011 12:44:12 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
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To: Steelfish
When will her failure be blamed on racism?

When Glenn Beck launched his GBTV, it was said that had more paying customers than Oprah has viewers.

37 posted on 10/09/2011 1:15:59 AM PDT by blam ((Deliberate Cruelty Is The Worst Of Human Offenses - Kenko))
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To: Steelfish

Oprah’s ratings went south when she actively campaigned for the Commie Kenyan.

She’s been Dixie Chicked and doesn’t get it.


38 posted on 10/09/2011 4:14:09 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: dfwgator

I don’t get it.


39 posted on 10/09/2011 4:17:57 AM PDT by hattend (If I wanted you dead, you'd be dead. - Cameron Connor)
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To: Niuhuru

Oprah’s day is done—getting Rosie on is a last gasp. Her plan wasn’t well thought out. Her network will fail—and she will go back to day time TV with a show that will be only a hollow shell of itself. She tied her star to Obama—a false prophet.
Glenn Beck should buy her network and run his programming there. We need a Tea Party Channel to show good Patriotic TV. In time her magazine will fold and her wealth will be gone. She will be like that movie “A face in the Crowd,” sad really.


40 posted on 10/09/2011 6:53:33 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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