Showing posts with label The oprah Winfrey Network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The oprah Winfrey Network. Show all posts

Sunday, May 20, 2012

BREAKING. Oprah Winfrey on the moment when she's felt the biggest pressure to be 'Oprah'.


In a very revealing moment, Oprah Winfrey has opened up about what moment in her life she has felt the most pressure to be "Oprah" - the billion dollar talk show media mogul of the media, television and entertainment world - who is now ranked second on Forbes magazine's annual Celebrity 100 List for 2012.

"What has been the moment for you where you have felt the most pressure to be 'Oprah'?" Zack Anner asked her in the penultimate episode of the reality show Your OWN Show just shown on Mzansi Magic (DStv 107).

In Your OWN Show, viewers see contestants competing to get their own talk show on Oprah Winfrey's TV network, OWN.

"The most pressure to be 'Oprah' is actually in creating this network, The Oprah Winfrey Network," said Oprah Winfrey. " I think the world expects this network to immediately be what The Oprah Winfrey Show has been - and which has taken me 25 years. It has taken me 25 years to create The Oprah Winfrey Show.

"At my heart I'm really a teacher, and that is really the purpose of this TV network," said Oprah Winfrey. "It is to use it as a tool for teaching and inspiring and giving people back to themselves so that people can see the best of themselves."

Friday, February 12, 2010

BREAKING. South African viewers could get the The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).


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There is a very good chance that South Africa could get The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) TV channel when it starts in January 2011 in America.

If you don't know yet, Oprah Winfrey will end The Oprah Winfrey Show in September next year and then devote her energy to her new TV channel, OWN. Now I can tell you that MultiChoice's DStv or On Digital Media (ODM) which should be operational and broadcasting by then, could be carrying the OWN channel when it launches, or soon after.

I asked OWN in America who tells me ''we are focusing on the domestic launch of OWN, but we will be exploring the international possibilities for OWN.''

South Africa is a prime territory for the channel. The Oprah Winfrey Show on SABC3 is hugely popular. Winfrey's school - The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls - is based here. Of course South Africa is the only country outside of America where Winfrey's magazine, O Magazine has a unique regionalized issue with a separate editorial staff.

OWN is also done in conjunction with Discovery Communications Networks who's well-versed in the international roll-out of channels and is expanding quickly in Africa and South Africa with the recent addition of the Discovery HD Showcase channel and Discovery World channel starting in March.