Oprah Moves Towards Total World Domination

Oprah Winfrey, who some of you might know as both a popular talk-show host as well as the name behind Hearst's O, the Oprah Magazine and O At Home, is starting a cable channel. It's called "OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network," with Discovery Communications. Is she going to do it right this time?

Whatever happened with the Oxygen Network, bought by NBC Universal last year? Oprah was co-founder, although she was never closely involved. Starting a new network every few years and then selling it—nice work if you can get it!

OWN will also be replacing Discovery Health Channel as part of the deal—now where will we go now for our Newborns In Peril/ Fattest Man Ever documentaries? [NYT]

5:02 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Sheila
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Cheap Shot at 05:03 PM on 01/15/08
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I can't wait for the VaJayJay Hour!
mathnet at 05:04 PM on 01/15/08
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I heard the best joke--you guys are gonna love this!

Pete Wendt's station will totally take hers.
Obviously Not Omniscient at 05:05 PM on 01/15/08
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Is she the world's #1 most powerful Scientologist? (...joke...)
VoxPopuli at 05:05 PM on 01/15/08
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Someday we will all be paying an orgasm tax to Oprah, because she will have taken ownership of the phrase and concept known as "The Big O."
MattGaymon at 05:06 PM on 01/15/08
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She wants you to live you best life. Now, dammit! Get off that couch! No watch more TV! Now get off the couch! More TV! Now!
MattGaymon at 05:06 PM on 01/15/08
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@mathnet: PWNED!!
Smitros at 05:09 PM on 01/15/08
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Will she also be doing predation programming?
the supergoddess at 05:11 PM on 01/15/08
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@MattGaymon: my friends and I watched that damn orpah's favorite thing episode like 90 times over thanksgiving and still cannot stop hollering at one another "TO... YAH BEST LIFE!"
NobodyLikesMe at 05:17 PM on 01/15/08
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I'm so glad - the Oxygen Network was such a hit
MattGaymon at 05:23 PM on 01/15/08
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@the supergoddess: I think she's just trying to bring her deeply held, secret belief in reincarnation to the masses. In her last, not-superlative life, she was "Mama" Rose Thompson Hovick.
Smitros at 05:39 PM on 01/15/08
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In a previous incarnation, Lifetime was a Harlequin romance.
SarahHeartburn at 05:46 PM on 01/15/08
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@NobodyLikesMe: Will she think about trying to hire the 70 or so people Oxygen laid off last December? Or did she buy each of them a car?
dinergirl at 05:56 PM on 01/15/08
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Kill me. Kill me now.
off_the_record at 06:14 PM on 01/15/08
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i gotta by stock in this *tihs.
gladys_kravitz at 06:54 PM on 01/15/08
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Oh, for fuck's sake. Will it ever end?
Michael Jahn at 08:23 PM on 01/15/08
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Next is buying the UN building and putting her name and photo on it.
belltolls at 08:27 PM on 01/15/08
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I don't have any children but I am pretty sure I can block that channel.
mcginstein at 09:42 PM on 01/15/08
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She's gonna show you her O face.
HeyThatsMyBike at 10:12 PM on 01/15/08
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NOOOO Please don't take Discovery Health away from me. Seriously, with the strike I live for Mystery Diagnosis and the various "Check out this freak disease" shows. I need my primordial dwarf fix!
Oprah, please don't make me hate you. I'm a white woman. It's against my nature.
lovely nigerienne at 12:14 AM on 01/16/08
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Get it O! DH has been declining so good riddance and I lost a lot of respect for her because of Bad Girls Club
Badupbomp at 12:31 AM on 01/16/08
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You get a network! And you get a network! Ev-ry-body gets a network!
edithdoll at 01:16 PM on 01/16/08
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Didn't she sell Oxygen along with rest of the partners to NBC/Universal?