Oprah Winfrey Getting Her Own TV Network

[billbuckhead]

Source: New York Times

NEW YORK (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey is getting her own TV network. OWN -- for Oprah Winfrey Network -- will debut next year in nearly 70 million homes with cable and satellite, part of a deal announced Tuesday with Discovery Communications. It will replace the Discovery Health network.

The announcement builds a media empire that already includes the top-rated TV talk show, a magazine, a satellite radio network, a Web site and TV movies made under her banne

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-TV-Oprah-Channel.html

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Imagine that!

[msongs]

1. Oprah/Obama and Hillary/Murdoch. will there be a network for repubs besides fox? nt

[aquart]

2. Not resting on her laurels for two seconds.

[BlueJazz]

3. Groan

[MissDeeds]

4. I wish she'd get her own planet

and move there.

[OhioChick]

5. You and Me, Both. n/t

[UpInArms]

6. well said

I just tried to read a book (given to me) that was part of her "bookclub".

Worst piece of prose.ever.

Ugh!

If she can't figure out what is worth reading ... (you fill in the blank)

[madrchsod]

9. planet oprah ?......no better not say what i`m thinking...

[madrchsod]

7. oprah viewers love the clinton`s too...ask mark penn

shit i thought they`d put her in the shopping channel numbers now i`ll have to delete that number from my remote...i`m not sure who has a bigger ego Oprah or Tyra

[Pastiche423]

8. Big whoop

:boring:

[LiberalFighter]

10. Will be blocking that channel

[Neshanic]

11. "I am big! It's the networks that got small!"

[MonkeyFunk]

12. wow...

good for her.

[Bonobo]

13. Will it show nothing but her big head, like her magazine cover every month? nt