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Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.
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The losses at Oprah Winfrey's stumbling cable channel are approaching a staggering $330 million, according to a report.
And now industry insiders are predicting that the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will not be able to survive another year if it does not find a hit show and make a dramatic turnaround.Discovery, which partnered 50-50 with Winfrey to launch the network and has been underwriting its costs, has invested nearly $600 million in it since 2008, according to a report in Businessweek magazine over the weekend.But since it started on the air in January 2011, "OWN may have lost as much as $330 million," it reported.The magazine quotes one Wall Street media analyst calling the channel the most "successful failure in television today."David Zaslav, Discovery Communications' CEO who talked Winfrey into the idea of OWN, is famously impatient with money-losing operations within his company.He closed a channel Discovery operated with The New York Times in 2008 and killed Planet Green, an ...Oprah Winfrey has cut 30 full-time employees from its struggling OWN Network, a move that represents a loss of nearly a fifth of its workforce. After the latest roun...
Oprah Winfrey says she still has faith in her troubled cable network.Appearing Monday on "CBS This Morning," Winfrey told the show's co-host -- and her best friend -...
Oprah Winfrey ended her famous talk show Wednesday by telling her viewers of 25 years that they weren't saying goodbye."I won't say goodbye, I'll just say until we m...
The final original episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will air May 25.Winfrey's Chicago-based Harpo Productions confirmed the date Friday. Winfrey announced live on...
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey wants to end her iconic show by getting her hands on Donald Trump's hair, the New York Post reported Wednesday.Winfrey apparently reach...
Oprah Winfrey’s new television network OWN, launching in January, has been forced to start an investigation into possible foul play surrounding its “Your OWN Show” c...
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seriously considered Oprah Winfrey as a candidate to fill President Barack Obama's former Senate seat, calling th...
CHICAGO -- Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick will not be appearing on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" after all.A show spokesman said Wednesday representatives ...
Prosecutors: Woman accused of abuse at Oprah Winfrey's South African school acquitted.
Rosie O’Donnell and Oprah Winfrey launched their new shows on OWN Monday night. But it seems the pair may be the only big names left on Winfrey’s struggling cable ne...
NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl viewers were rubbing their eyes at the sight of a TV spot pairing CBS late-night host David Letterman with longtime NBC archrival Jay Leno...
Hundreds of giddy fans struck by their luck at getting tickets to be a part of history gathered outside Oprah Winfrey's television studio in Chicago Tuesday awaiting...
Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina sat down with Oprah Winfrey Friday for a special episode of "Oprah's Next Chapter" which will screen on the talk show queen...
Oprah Winfrey's OWN network is pulling the curtain on "The Rosie Show" after five months on the air.The show premiered in October to about 500,000 viewers but lost a...
"Oprah's Next Chapter," Oprah Winfrey's long-anticipated weekly interview show, will finally debut on OWN on January 1, the first anniversary of the fledgling networ...
Oprah Winfrey found herself embroiled in a Twitter furor and offered an apology Monday after she took to the microblogging site a day earlier urging her fans -- espe...
Has Oprah Winfrey lost the Midas touch?With Winfrey’s OWN cable channel sinking in the ratings, the talk show titan has been forced to star in not just one, but two ...
One of the stars of Oprah Winfrey’s struggling OWN Network is claiming that he is now homeless, broke and battling alcoholism -- and it’s all Winfrey’s fault.Star Ma...
Oprah Winfrey's struggling television network, OWN, said Monday it is laying off one-fifth of its workers and restructuring its operations in New York and Los Angele...
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