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*The Hollywood Reporter sat down with Oprah Winfrey to chat about the huge reversal in fortune of her OWN cable channel and the lessons she’s learned. “I’m not doing the hula yet …but compared to a year ago, it feels like a sigh of relief,” says Winfrey between sips of iced tea on her sprawling [...]
*Hollywood film executive DeVon Franklin, author of “Produced By Faith,” will be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s spiritual series “Super Soul Sunday,” on June 17 at 11 a.m. ET/PT on OWN. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Winfrey will talk with Franklin about his journey in the entertainment industry, his relationship with actress Meagan Good and working [...]
*The entire extended Kardashian clan – including significant others – sat down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey that will air this Sunday (June 17) on “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” [Scroll down to watch the promo.] [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Winfrey visited the Jenner Home in Hidden Hills, Calif. to conduct the family’s first television [...]
*Andy Cohen, Bravo programming exec and host of its late-night show “Watch What Happens,” was asked how he would boost ratings at the struggling Oprah Winfrey Network during a visit to Howard Stern’s satellite radio show Tuesday. “Here’s the first thing that I would do and it’s the first thing I would have done two [...]
*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 has a steep financial hill to climb in the struggle to keep her cable channel afloat. Bloomberg Businessweek reported last week that OWN may have lost a whopping $330 million since it began in 2008. An analyst told the magazine that it was the most “successful failure in television today.” The report follows [...]
*Oprah Winfrey’s cable channel OWN today officially announced four new primetime shows: “Elura and Michele Take Staten Island,” “Iyanla Fix My Life,” “Married to the Army: Alaska” and “Six Little McGhees.” Additionally, the network has picked up a third season of “Oprah’s Master Class,” featuring true modern masters sharing their greatest life lessons, and has [...]
*OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network premiered its Saturday prime time line-up on March 31 with the return of the popular original series “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” (9-10 p.m. ET/PT), posting the highest rating for the series among women 25-54 and earning 512,000 in total viewers. That’s up 133% versus the fall premiere on Oct. 15, 2011 [...]
*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 [...]
*A representative for Oprah Winfrey’s cable channel is dismissing reports that she is trying to recruit has journalist friend Maria Shriver to host a news show. Rosie O’Donnell’s series on Winfrey’s OWN channel was cancelled last week after just one season, and RadarOnline.com reported the media mogul was eyeing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s estranged wife for another [...]
*Radar Online is reporting that Oprah Winfrey is trying to recruit her close friend Maria Shriver to host a show on OWN as early as this fall. The news comes days after Winfrey cancelled Rosie O’Donnell’s short-lived talk show due to low ratings, and laid off 30 staffers at the network. “Oprah knows she needs [...]
*Rosie O’Donnell shot a video to tamp down all the talk surrounding the cancellation of her talk show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. “It was fair,” said O’Donnell from the Chicago set of The Rosie Show. “Listen: Oprah gave me an amazing shot at doing this. She really did. She put me back on TV. [...]
*Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown was the most-watched telecast ever on OWN, reports TV Guide. The sit-down with Whitney Houston’s daughter, sister-in-law Patricia and brother Gary for a 90-minute episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” earned a whopping 3.5 million viewers and a 3.1 rating in the network’s key women 25-to-54 demo. The audience [...]
*NBA legend-turned-business mogul, Earvin Magic Johnson, is gearing up for the next phase of his expansive business portfolio – running his own network. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Hall of Famer is preparing for the summer launch of Aspire, a 24-hour channel with a focus on what Johnson called positive, uplifting images of [...]
*OWN has announced that its breakout reality hit “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” and new series “Beverly’s Full House,” following two strong modern matriarchs and their families, will premiere back-to-back on Saturday, March 31. “Sweetie Pie’s” airs from 9-10 p.m. ET/PT, followed by “Beverly’s Full House” from 10-11 p.m. ET/PT. [Scroll down to watch promos.] Returning [...]
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