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Latest at Oprah's Struggling Network: 20% of Staff Gone

Rob Quinn — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:30:00 CDT

This week on Oprah: dealing with unemployment. The Oprah Winfrey Network is laying off a fifth of its workers as part of a major restructuring at the cable network, which has struggled for ratings since its launch last year, AP reports. "It is difficult to make tough business decisions that...

By Ending Show, Oprah Bets Big on Cable

Kevin Spak — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:43:53 CST

Oprah's decision to end her network show in 2011 is a risky bet on cable TV that will cost CBS millions of dollars and ABC stations millions of viewers. Oprah will concentrate solely on her long-delayed cable channel, OWN, though it’s not clear how yet. She’s told her staff that...

Oprah Set to Bolt ABC

Kevin Spak — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:02:00 CST

Oprah is getting ready to say goodbye to ABC and take her legendary talk show to her OWN cable network, the New York Post reports. The CEO of Discovery Communications, which is teaming up with Winfrey to create OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network) says he expects Winfrey’s eponymous show to...

Cable Channel's Eco-Cred a Bit Overcooked

Dustin Lushing — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:40:01 CDT

Cable channel Planet Green spotlights the eco-friendly in everything, although its message is “dappled with incongruities,” Alessandra Stanley writes in the New York Times , “from an all-fats-allowed celebrity chef to advertisements that undermine the channel’s most heartfelt messages.” The chef in question is Emeril Legasse, champion of cage-free eggs and...