Oprah Winfrey To Head Of OWN: You’re Fired!
Posted on May 06, 2011 @ 05:19PM
by Radar Staff
Oprah Winfrey is not familiar with failure, and the talk show queen is chopping off heads at her newly-launched network, OWN.
Christina Norman was dismissed as head of the Oprah Winfrey Network on Friday after just four months on the job. She was immediately replaced by Peter Liguori, COO of the company that owns the Discovery channel.
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The management shuffle came after OWN, which is jointly-owned by Discovery and Winfrey, only attracted a dismal average of 148,000 viewers at any given time.
In a memo to staff, Winfrey lauded Norman’s “hard work, passion and leadership were instrumental in getting OWN on the air,” but added, “Given all that we have to do, the OWN Board felt it was necessary that we have a different kind of leadership in place for the next phase of OWN’s growth.”
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Apr 15, 2010 @ 22:30
Apr 01, 2012 @ 13:35
the network have shows that other channels carry, so there's nothing new on OWN.
Posted Sun, 05/08/2011 - 11:11pm
Sorry, Oprah, but OWN stinks. You're now on our way DOWN. What a slippery slope fame can be...sigh!
Posted Sun, 05/08/2011 - 3:18am
I'm thinking people think she has enough cash and can't be bothered with her anymore.
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 7:23pm
you must fear Oprah
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 4:21pm
There's no better motivator than fear. What Oprah giveth, she can taketh away.
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 9:09am
I agree w/flo b/c I only have basic cable to save money. I think a lot of people only have basic so they won't be seeing OWN. This would cut out a lot of viewers. Good luck to her though.
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 9:04am
I wouldn't watch anything Oprah. Despise the woman after she said we should all be 'nice' to Obama. Barf! Was anyone 'nice' to Bush? It was ok to put his face under a target but you can't spit in Obama's direction w/o being arrested for it.
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 8:48am
From day one of hearing about this I thought, "Oprah is biting off more than SHE can chew." AND, I thought it was going to be shows that are educational... oh I don't know exactly what I expected, but I do know what we're getting isn't it.
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 3:48am
I like OWN. There are two shows about finding birth family members that I especially like. I think they were on other networks but I never saw them before. I think it will just take some time for OWN to come into it's "own".
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 1:35am
I checked out a few shows just to see what the network was all about. I saw parts of The Judds, Gayle King Show and some sex show with a female Dr. This was very late at night though. Don't know what's on in the morning. Nothing to shout about.
Posted Sat, 05/07/2011 - 1:16am