Solid Motion Picture Academy sources say that Oprah Winfrey is topping the list of candidates to host the 84th Oscars next February.
Life Beyond Oprah Comes Into Focus
Appropriately, an Oprah spin-off, Sony’s Dr. Oz, can be declared the nominal Oprah replacement, having snagged her coveted news lead-in slot in more than 80 markets. But it’s no guarantee of success. With Oprah gone in the fall, the time period will be a wide open and highly competitive battleground where it’s quite possible no show or station will carve out a wide advantage.
CHICAGO (AP) – Oprah Winfrey now has a street to call her own. On Wednesday, Mayor Richard Daley, in one of his last official acts before he leaves office next […]
Named to replace Norman at the helm of the Oprah-inspired Discovery Communications network is Discovery COO Peter Liquori. The shakeup is only the latest bump for OWN, which debuted a year later than scheduled and has struggled for ratings while burning through money.
CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is now a member of the Illinois Broadcasters Association’s Hall of Fame. Film critic Roger Ebert was among those who honored the talk show queen […]
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‘Judge Judy’ Passes ‘Oprah’ In Syndie Race
In the wake of the February sweeps, most shows experienced a dip. Although Judge Judy and Two and a Half Men held steady, ranking No. 1 among all the daytime shows and sitcoms, respectively.
How Oprah’s Daytime Exit Affects NATPE
The talk show queen’s exit from the syndication arena this year could bring renewed energy to the annual TV convention, which kicks off today in its new Miami home.
Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that she will stage a surprise reunion on her talk show today has prompted speculation about the person’s identity.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Piers Morgan says he’s spoiling for a prime-time fight with CNN’s rivals – and he’ll throw the first punch with Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey, who is promoting […]
At noon on New Year’s Day, the Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN for short, arrived free of glitz with a one-hour preview special hosted by Winfrey in which she offered a hearty overview of the live-your-best-life fare she will curate across the network’s schedule.
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.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s new governor won’t grant Oprah Winfrey a prison interview she’s been trying to get for a decade with a woman who drowned her two […]
Given all the media attention around the Jan. 1 launch of OWN — the cable network owned by daytime talk queen Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications — there are probably over-the-top expectations that the channel will explode right out of the box. Odds are that won’t be the case.
SYDNEY (AP) — Oprah Winfrey joined 300 eager audience members Wednesday in Australia, where they were flown in for an action-packed, Down Under adventure including close encounters with kangaroos, surfing […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has come a long way since her childhood years in a Mississippi shack and in public housing with a poster of The Beatles on her […]
Oprah’s Next Job: Moving Viewers To Cable
The Queen of Daytime and partner Discovery are betting big that Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable channel can draw daytime viewers away from broadcast TV to watch a lineup of first-run talk shows, cooking programs and other material aimed at women. If OWN’s strategy works, it could whack TV stations’ ratings and ad dollars. And it may ignite an assault by other cable networks on broadcasters in a daypart where they haven’t had much luck so far.
