May 18, 2013

OWN to Launch Oprah Winfrey Section on Huffington Post

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*The Huffington Post Media Group and OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today the launch of an Oprah Winfrey section on Huffingtonpost.com beginning August 2012. The special section will feature content created and curated by writers and producers from OWN and Oprah.com specifically for The Huffington Post.  Additionally, the section will call upon The Huffington Post’s [...]




Oprah’s OWN Reveals 4 New Shows, Including ‘Iyanla Fix My Life’

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*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 [...]




Nielsen Not Happy with Oprah Winfrey’s Twitter Plea

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*Oprah Winfrey has nine million followers on Twitter, and regularly tweets out requests to tune into her one-year-old channel, OWN. But on Sunday night, her pleas crossed a line with the Nielsen ratings company when she tweeted: “Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen [sic] box,” just as [...]




Oprah Winfrey Hires Herself as CEO of OWN

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*Oprah Winfrey will take over as chief executive officer of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network this fall, the cable channel announced today. Winfrey will be the third CEO of the company since its debut in January. She will also become chief creative officer as the network prepares for her new talk show, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” to [...]




‘Surprise Oprah!’ To Tape Today; Shriver Courted for OWN

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*Thousands of Oprah Winfrey fans are expected to pack Chicago’s United Center today for a star-studded double-taping of her talk show as it inches toward its finale. The guest lineup for “Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular” is a secret, but Winfrey’s producers have promised the biggest names in Hollywood. The celebrity response “has been a [...]




‘OprahLiveTweet’ Becomes No. 1 Trending Topic on Twitter

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*In an effort to boost viewership of her cable channel OWN, Oprah Winfrey spent all day Sunday tweeting with her fans and posting videos to promote the new Sunday lineup  – and quickly started the No. 1 trending topic: #OprahLiveTweet. Winfrey released a number of candid videos online over the weekend asking viewers to tune [...]




Oprah Winfrey: OWN is Still a Work in Progress

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*In a sit down with the Hollywood Reporter, Oprah Winfrey warns dissatisfied viewers of her OWN network to hang in there – more programming is on the horizon. “We’re building, night by night by night. What everyone told me about the cable business is the way you do cable is you start with a couple [...]