Despite the low viewership for Oprah’s OWN network, the execs have added a lot on their lineup for next season, including two Tyler Perry series: a drama called The Haves and the Have Nots and half-hour comedy Love Thy Neighbor. And so, so much more! (In case that wasn’t enough.) Read More
Bloomberg Businessweek digs into Oprah Winfrey’s difficulties with kick-starting her OWN cable network–a struggle she herself has described as “climbing Kilimanjaro.” OWN’s losses may be as much as $330 million, potentially forcing its parent company, Discovery, to take a write-off.
OWN has suffered what might be more significant than growing pains–its initial ratings were a Read More
We’re here to tell you just how to set your DVR before heading out for drinks or dinner–or just watching something better on TV!
We haven’t watched Rosie O’Donnell’s nightly show on the Oprah Winfrey Network–her humor, predicated always on a lot of Hollywood references, seems to have devolved into just saying the names Read More
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN project received $46 million from its parent company, Discovery, in the last quarter of 2010 and will get $50 million over 2011–on top of their initial $189 million investment. Oprah’s network has suffered from a great number of reruns–and lack of original programming–that have kept its earnings relatively depressed. As new Read More
Last night WABC (ABC’s owned-and-operated station in New York) broke the story that Oprah Winfrey will be ending her broadcast talk show in 2011. She’s decamping to cable, where she will run OWN, a cable network, jointly owned by her and Discovery Communications.
The Oprah Winfrey Show is the most Read More
Christina Norman, the President of MTV, will step down at the end of February, according to Variety.
Van Toffler, the head of MTV Networks Music and Logo Group, announced the news in an internal memo to staffers yesterday.
“News of Norman’s move came as a shock inside MTV, where execs typically exit trailing Read More
