OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is a USA television network.

OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is a cable television channel launched on January 1, 2011. The network says it is "devoted to self-discovery, to connecting you to your best self and to the world." It covers health, home and relationships, primarily for women. Programming includes shows hosted by people such as Gayle King (a close friend of Oprah), country singer Shania Twain, journalist Lisa Ling and relationship advice expert Dr. Laura Berman.

Oprah Winfrey has been on TV for 25 years, hosting "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on broadcast television, and she appears daily on OWN. The Oprah Winfrey Network replaced the Discovery Health Channel on cable TV. As a result, at launch the channel was available in over 70 million American homes. OWN is a 50/50 joint venture between Ms. Winfrey and Discovery Communications Inc.

This TV network is owned by Harpo Productions, Inc. and and Discovery Communications Inc..

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OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network Lays Off 30 Workers
-- In what Deadline Hollywood Daily labels an exclusive report, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has laid off 20% of its workforce and is "restructuring its operations in Los Angeles and New York." More from Oprah Winfrey’s OWN...

Oprah Pulls Plug on Rosie O'Donnell's Talk Show
-- The show, which ran for five months on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, will record its final episode on March 20, 2012, according to a statement issued by the network. “I thank Rosie from the bottom of my heart for joining...

Oprah Apologizes for Asking Nielsen Box Owners to Watch OWN
-- America's talk show queen tweeted a message to her nine million followers -- "especially if u have a Neilsen box" -- asking them to watch her struggling cable channel, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. Nielsen apparently viewed the tweet as...

Oprah Winfrey's Bodyguards Scuffle with Indian Journalists
-- In the middle of a trip to the holy city of Vrindavan, journalists who had been waiting all morning for a glimpse of America's talk show queen ran smack into an entourage of two American and a dozen Indian bodyguards. From Oprah hits a...

Oprah Winfrey is Desperate About Her OWN
-- The once and possibly future queen of daytime television is evidently willing to do almost anything to jumpstart her latest venture, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which is tanking in viewership, even among...

The Oprah Winfrey Network Greenlights Six New Series
-- On April 14, 2011, OWN announced four new series to debut on the channel. The six new series include: "CONFRONTING…," which documents the mediation process in which victim and offender come together. In each episode, viewers...

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Announces Programming Lineup
-- Four series renewed for second season, six others given green light for debut, the network announced on April 14, 2011. "After four months on the air it's great to be able to renew series that connected with our audience," said...

Oprah Enshrined in Broadcasting Hall of Fame
-- Talk show host to enter the Illinois Broadcasters Association (IBA) Hall of Fame as its sole inductee on May 3, the IBA announced on March 21, 2011. "Oprah Winfrey is the epitome of broadcasting excellence," remarked...

Oprah’s New Channel Struggles to Pull in the Viewers
-- OWN attracting fewer viewers than the channel it replaced, The New York Times reported on February 27, 2011: "At any given time this month, there have been about 135,000 people watching OWN, according to the Nielsen Company, and...

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