Could Oprah Move Talk Show to Cable in 2011?
By Luke Kerr on November 05, 2009
Could Oprah be packing up her talk show and moving it to her cable channel OWN in 2011? According to Nikki Finke at Deadline.com the announcement could come soon.
Could Oprah be packing up her talk show and moving it to her cable channel OWN in 2011? According to Nikki Finke at Deadline.com the announcement could come soon.
The industry has been betting that the daytime diva would extend The Oprah Winfrey Show for at least another year or two because of the huge cash license fees which stations have long paid her. But people around Oprah are telling me that won't happen. They say that Discovery Communications chief David Zaslav has demanded that Oprah "move it or lose it" -- move her talk show to OWN, or risk losing the Oprah Winfrey Network altogether. I've learned that in coming days Winfrey and Discovery will issue a press release announcing OWN's on-air launch for the start of 2011. And, in several weeks, Oprah will tell the public that she's ending her syndicated Chicago-based daytime talk show when her current deal runs out and moving it to OWN headquarters in Los Angeles probably as soon as mid-2011.
Would you still watch her talk show if it is on cable?
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5 November 2009
19 weeks 1 day
If this is true & she does leave ABC, then Aisha Tyler will have a home for her show & the soaps could be safe. We'll see...
8 June 2008
1 year 33 weeks
Probably wouldn't watch if it moved to cable...
18 February 2009
1 hour 56 min
She's not on ABC. She's syndicated. Her show airs on ABC affiliates in some cities, CBS in others, NBC in others, etc. The timeslot where she airs belongs to your local station, not to the network. Your local station chooses what to put in that timeslot.
I can't imagine airing only on OWN would be nearly as lucrative as airing in syndication. That's where the money is.
23 July 2008
5 days 11 hours
Since when do people tell Oprah what to do?
18 February 2009
1 hour 56 min
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/oprah-winfrey-to-end-her-talk-show/
Holy crap, it appears she went and did it! We'll find out on Friday's LIVE show! You could knock me over with a feather. (I wonder how long Drs. Phil and Oz will last without the Oprah tentpole.