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*News broke in late December that Oprah Winfrey quit her longtime agency CAA. Today, Deadline.com is reporting that she has signed with its rival WME, where her career will be handled by a team of agents led by Ari Emanuel and Rick Rosen. Emanuel, the brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, was also the inspiration for [...]
*Deadline.com is reporting that Oprah Winfrey has severed ties with her longtime agency CAA, the agency. AT CAA, she was represented by a team led by Kevin Huvane, who spearheaded her deal with Discovery Communications for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. It is unclear whether Winfrey will be signing with another agency.
*OWN, the joint venture of Discovery Communications and Oprah Winfrey, will reach cash flow break-even during the second half of 2013, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said Tuesday. On his company’s first-quarter earnings conference call Tuesday, he said Discovery expects funding to OWN in 2012 to come in below that of 2011. The network’s recent steps [...]
*Oprah Winfrey’s struggling cable channel OWN saw a 21 percent rise in total daily viewers in the first quarter of 2012, as the TV titan’s decision to put more of herself on the network began to pay off. However, the 15-month-old venture is still attracting only 180,000 viewers a day, on average, according to first [...]
*Since Oprah’s namesake show went off the air last September, her magazine’s newsstand sales have also faded from sight, reports. Adweek Brass at Hearst, which publishes the 2.4 million circulated publication with Winfrey, had downplayed the impact of the show’s ending on the magazine, saying they expected fans to turn to it to get their [...]
*As Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network, a joint venture with Discovery Communications, is just starting to pull itself out of the ratings doldrums with new programming, her magazine and website continue to struggle following the end of her long-running syndicated talk show, according to Women’s Wear Daily. Observers have said that the real test of [...]
*The $12 million infusion into Oprah Winfrey’s OWN from partner Discovery Communications has yet to help the cable channel turn a profit, according to the New York Post. As previously reported, Discovery spent an additional $12 million on its joint venture with Winfrey in the third quarter — however, the network is still a money [...]
*The New York Post is reporting that Oprah Winfrey’s OWN got another big bailout check from its partner company to keep it afloat. The paper claims Winfrey’s partner in the channel, Discovery Communications, is investing millions more to promote OWN and expose it to new viewers, sources said. As previously reported, Discovery will carry the [...]
*Oprah Winfrey discussed her difficulties with launching OWN in an hourlong interview on her Facebook page Thursday, conducted by COO Sheryl Sandberg at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the former talk-show host admitted she “never had fear until I started [OWN].” She says it stems from her desire to find [...]
*Wonya Lucas has been named President and CEO of TV One, effective Monday, August 8. The cable industry programming veteran succeeds Johnathan Rodgers, who announced he will retire on July 31. Most recently, Lucas was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Discovery Channel and Science Channel, where she was responsible for strategy and [...]
*In the wake of initial disappointing ratings for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, its head, Christina Norman, has abruptly left the 4-month-old channel, reports the AP. The network announced today that Peter Liguori, the chief operating officer for Discovery Communications, will take over on an interim basis. His appointment is effective immediately. Winfrey said she [...]
*Discovery Communications on Friday said it will invest an additional $50 million in OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network this year, particularly in programming, which it said will mean the company will break even on the channel this year instead of turning a profit as it had previously predicted. According to the Hollywood Reporter, President and [...]
*After a strong opening at the beginning of the year, ratings for OWN, the cable network joint venture of Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications, have declined, with shows with Winfrey’s name in the title remaining its strongest performers, according to the Hollywood Reporter. For its second week, ratings for OWN fell about 20 percent among [...]
*The New York Times says Discovery Communications expects Oprah Winfrey’s cable channel to achieve profitability in its first year: Discovery and Ms. Winfrey flipped the switch on OWN, short for the Oprah Winfrey Network, on New Year’s Day. The new channel enjoyed heavy sampling among viewers over the weekend, though executives have cautioned that they [...]
*(Via LA Times) It happened in its OWN time. After three years of planning, delays and management misfires, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network finally arrives Jan. 1, the biggest launch of a cable channel in more than a decade. Wall Street and the television industry are eager to see whether the celebrity who can unleash [...]
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