The power and the glory that was Oprah is no more. Last year, the TV show screamer announced she was quitting her successful syndicated TV show, launched her own cable network, and sat back to watch the suckers tune in.
It hasn’t quite worked out quite the way she’d hoped. The Oprah Winfrey Network, better known as OWN, drew 1.2 million viewers on launch day, but it’s been all downhill since then.
The Telegraph UK reports that Oprah’s omniscience is over:
The OWN channel, which launched two months ago, is being watched by only 135,000 people at any one time.
The ratings are 10 per cent lower than for the cable channel it replaced which was called Discovery Health.
And only 45,000 of those watching are women aged 25 to 54, the audience the channel is being aimed at.
Miss Winfrey, 57, has urged patience and supporters say ratings will improve when the chat show host begins appearing more regularly herself towards the end of the year.
She will still be busy filming “The Oprah Winfrey Show” for the ABC network until September, but will then be able to devote more time to her own channel. That will include having her own show two or three nights a week.
Oprah is riding to the rescue. Hell, we’d tune in just to see how the horse handled that load.
Source: Telegraph UK
This post was last modified on March 5, 2011
View Comments (21)
Well quiting while your ahead is not the sme as quiting. Has Jerry Senfield or Dave Chapell retuned to TV yet alone start a television network. What Ophra doesn't want to accept is that she had a great run and like all celebrities/TV personalities there comes a time to call it quits.
By all accounts, the network should be doing well. Fat floats.
oprah kisses odumbas a@@!
Isn't she one of the evil wealthy whose money should be redistributed according to Mr. Soetoro? Why is it that the "evil rich" tag applies to everyone but liberals? I say take OW's money and give it to the "po"
They don't have to take her money, she gives it away to her reletives back in Africa. Remember the O school that she touted as her shining jewel in crown of victories. She was the one who took her time and vetted every single teacher and all personeel in her school. She did such a fantastic job that word did not leak out about the abuses and rape until day 4 of the GRAND OPENING!
And her remaining viewers sing:
"Now is the time of great decision...
Are we to stay, or up and quit?
There's no avoiding this conclusion:
This network's turning into s#it..."
Mongo like Dave!
COMEDY GOLD!!!
Nice "Blazing Saddles" reference.
Moochell should get Oprah to loss weight, since she has done so well with her arms (not fat ass however!) Maybe change her name to Okra, and just be a vegan.
LOLOLOL
Oh I am sorry I shouldn't laugh at someone's failure like this, however I cannot help it. Oprah is so arrogant so she deserves to be taken down a peg.
At least she's doing better than Al Gore's Current TV, which ain't saying much mind you.
Maybe she should give away a car to all her viewers each day...peeps would probably watch then. Yaaaay! Everybody get's a car! YaaaaY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDAPms8Tvs
I wonder if she ever figured out that she got trolled.