Is Oprah Winfrey giving up her syndicated talk show to save her cable network OWN? According to
Nikki Finke, “the 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.” She added that she will make an announcement in the near future that she will be ending her show in 2011 and move it to her OWN cable network. She also said that Oprah was suppose to tell the head of CBS last month her decision whether or not she was going to renew her show, but has cancelled all of their meetings. If she decides to cancel her syndicated show it will be a big loss to CBS Television Distribution because it is the #1 syndicated program and will hurt them financially.
Personally I wouldn’t miss her because I never got her show or her popularity, but I know I am in the minority. Would you miss her show if it were just on cable?
