NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is paying about $43.2 million for a 10 percent stake in Weight Watchers and is joining the weight management company’s board. The company’s shares […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Stern and Julia Roberts will be among the guests during the final full week of David Letterman’s reign as […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey will close Harpo Studios in Chicago, where she filmed “The Oprah Winfrey Show” for more than 20 years, this December, and will transition production for […]
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“Oprah Winfrey is in discussions with David Geffen and Larry Ellison to make a bid for the Los Angeles Clippers should the team become available,” said Nicole Nichols, a spokeswoman for the lifestyle guru.
Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the operation will remain on the property for another two years. Winfrey taped The Oprah Winfrey Show at the studio from 1990 to 2011, when she ended the talk show to start the Oprah Winfrey Network on cable.
OWN is in the black for the first time since its rocky start two-and-a-half years ago. More than 30 new advertisers are joining original heavyweight sponsors Procter & Gamble and General Electric, and are paying higher rates as the channel has found its programming and distribution footing. Headlines about profitability and audience growth have replaced the drumbeat of speculation that her ambitious venture with Discovery Communications might end up a costly flop and an uncharacteristic failure for her.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Lindsay Lohan gets out of rehab this summer, Oprah Winfrey will be waiting to talk to her. Winfrey’s cable channel, OWN, said Friday that Winfrey […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey doesn’t have a daily talk show anymore. But two years after abdicating her throne, the former talk-show queen is clear who she thinks now […]
Armstrong Interview A Big Chance For Oprah
Millions of people are expected to watch Lance Armstrong confess to using performance-enhancing drugs in a two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey beginning this evening, likely giving her OWN cable network its largest audience ever. The challenge for OWN will be convincing those who tune in for the Armstrong interview to come back to the network afterwards.
Tyler Perry’s new exclusive deal to create programming for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN means he is shelving his ambitions to launch his own cable network, Tyler TV.
Anton Goss, a Los Angeles-based set designer, has carved out a niche designing sets for single-named daytime talk-show hosts, including Oprah, Tyra, Ellen and now Ricki. He discusses the curious world of daytime talk-show design, working with Oprah Winfrey and why it’s all about the couch.
Starting next Monday at 9 a.m. ET, the Oprah Winfrey Network will broadcast two episodes of each show back-to-back.
Her new television network is struggling, but Oprah Winfrey’s bank account is doing just fine, according to financial website Forbes.com, which named the talk show queen as the highest paid celebrity for the fourth straight year.
Faced with the potential failure of her money-pit cable network OWN, Winfrey is working the phones hard to secure big-name interviews for her show, Oprah’s Next Chapter. The open question is whether she can have the same cultural impact on a smaller stage.
Oprah Winfrey admitted on Monday that she had made mistakes while creating her cable channel but promised the fledging OWN television network would still succeed with a new strategy. The talk show host, who recently laid off 30 staffers at the 15-month-old network after poor ratings, told CBS This Morning that she had been ill-prepared for the venture.
Oprah Winfrey’s fledgling OWN cable channel saw a 21% rise in total daily viewers in the first quarter of 2012, as the talk show queen’s decision to put more of herself on the network began to pay off.
Along with current syndicated TV favorites, a multitude of new daytime talk shows will arrive this fall in the first real test for the genre since Oprah Winfrey left the scene in May.
Oprah Moves to Cable – And Irrelevance
While headlining her own syndicated The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah was unstoppable. Her name became synonymous with quality; she routinely gave away audiencefuls of cars, exotic trips and other sundry expenditures that she found she couldn’t live without — and those brands benefitted from the “Oprah Seal of Approval” in turn. But since last January she’s on cable, on her OWN. The Oprah Winfrey Network, that is. And she’s hardly been heard from since.
Oprah Winfrey issued a public apology on Monday for sending a controversial tweet on Sunday night. As the Grammys took many viewers over to CBS on Sunday, Oprah took to Twitter to ask people to tune into her cable network, OWN — “especially if you have a Nielsen box.”
NATPE 2012: It’s Still All About Oprah
Oprah is long gone — she taped her last show for broadcast syndication eight months ago — but her presence (or absence) is still being felt throughout broadcasting and will pervade the NATPE conference next week in Miami Beach. She’ll continue to be the measure by which every other talk show evaluates itself and the subject of countless conversations about her impact on broadcasting.
The cable channel, which marks its first year Jan. 1, is trying for a fresh start after executive turnover and missteps that proved OWN lacked a solid foundation on which to build, this despite a Discovery Communications investment of a reported $250 million and counting. Winfrey, who said management team errors in planning and execution could serve as a cautionary tale, rejects the idea that a single year’s performance will determine OWN’s ultimate fate. Or hers.
The cable channel, which marks its first year Jan. 1, is trying for a fresh start after executive turnover and missteps that proved OWN lacked a solid foundation on which to build, this despite a Discovery Communications investment of a reported $250 million and counting.
CHICAGO (AP) – Oprah has made way for Rosie. Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell unveiled a sign Thursday in front of Chicago’s Harpo Studios. It reads: “Harpo Studios. The Rosie […]
Oprah Winfrey is in need of an Internet intervention. The talk show queen plans to huddle with top tech players next week to gin up some ideas for reviving her flagship site, Oprah.com, whose traffic has plummeted since her daytime talk show ended in May. Winfrey will sit down with executives next week to learn as much as she can about the future of the Web and how best to harness social media.
Oprah Winfrey, TV’s greatest hit-maker, is counting on Rosie O’Donnell to save her struggling cable network. OWN — which launched New Year’s Day to un-Oprah-like ratings — has already burned through more than $150 million in start-up money without producing a single hit show. The irony of history’s most-successful talker looking to a former rival to save her network may be the biggest story of the upcoming fall season.
