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Date Posted: 13:12:37 11/05/09 Thu
Author: LAwoman
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Some potentially interesting Oprah news from DC:

Could Oprah Move Talk Show to Cable in 2011?
Submitted by Luke Kerr on November 5, 2009 - 12:59pm

The Oprah Winfrey Show

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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[> I tivo her but don't always watch. I am surprised she didn't move it before. -- goblue, 13:20:30 11/05/09 Thu [1]

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[> [> Not that she needs more $$, but money from the licensing fees generally offsets a large chunck of production costs. There's also the -- LAwoman, 13:40:17 11/05/09 Thu [1]

issue of her cable channel not being in every home. Currently, Oprah is every-damn-where for free.

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[> [> [> Oh, and what I think makes this interesting is what the -- LAwoman, 13:42:18 11/05/09 Thu [1]

networks will fill that hour with. Locally, that's 3 to 4 p.m. on ABC. Wonder if they would shift the soaps later and have a noon talker with someone else. Lots of possibilites.

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[> [> [> [> Stupid abc will let the View be 2 hours. LMFAO! -- goblue, 13:44:51 11/05/09 Thu [1]

Then abc will be the laugh of the city!

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[> [> [> [> [> Argh! Don't even say that! -- LAwoman, 14:13:30 11/05/09 Thu [1]

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Oh there is no way it's gonna happen, I was just being my usual sarcastic self. -- goblue, 14:20:47 11/05/09 Thu [1]

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Don't be too sure. Look what they did with the Today show. Isn't it all all day now? LMAO! -- LAwoman thinks ABC is a rival in stupidity with NBC, 14:49:22 11/05/09 Thu [1]

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> I don't watch that dumb network -- goblue, 14:59:24 11/05/09 Thu [1]

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[> [> [> If I had her $, I would have retired 10 years ago! How much $ do you really need! -- goblue, 13:43:32 11/05/09 Thu [1]

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[> [> [> [> I know it sounds crazy, but some people actually LIKE to work LOL! -- LAwoman not sure she's one of them, 14:14:23 11/05/09 Thu [1]

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[> Its time for her to go. I never liked her after about 10 years of her. -- B, 14:36:17 11/06/09 Fri [1]

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