Oprah Winfrey
Owning a television network has become a vanity project for
many in the entertainment industry, where one hears that someone else seeks to launch one, then the
rest all copy with no real sense of what it takes to have a hit channel,
containing great programming people want to see. It's not that simple.
So is the case with Oprah Winfrey, who has gone from
12,000,000 viewers on prime time, to 308,000 tuning in to see her on her
channel the OWN network. It has devastated Winfrey and financial partner
the Discovery network, who has dumped $600,000,000 into OWN only to see
it fail.
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