Oprah is a huge failure

Oprah leaving Icebergs restaurant in Sydney, Australia (12/12)

Oprah's new network OWN ain't exactly taking off -- she's basically a huge failure. Expect her house to go into foreclosure very soon. From the New York Times:

Oprah Winfrey is finding out just how hard it is to build an out-of-the-way channel into a television destination.

OWN, her two-month-old channel, is attracting fewer viewers than the obscure channel it replaced, Discovery Health. At any given time this month, there have been about 135,000 people watching OWN, according to the Nielsen Company, and only about 45,000 of those people are women ages 25 to 54, the demographic that the channel is focusing on.

Those ratings levels, down about 10 percent from Discovery Health’s levels last year, are being carefully watched by people who would like to rebuild cable channels around other celebrities, and by investors who worry that OWN is a drag on Discovery’s stock.

Oprah's going to learn the hard way that if you want ratings, you can't air programs that focus on feelings and emotions. You've got to show tits and ass.* It's the old axiom that "~~Sex Sells~~" "~~Men Control the Purse Strings~~" "No one wants to listen to whiny bitches whine for 24 hours a day." If they did, they'd just get married.

*See Celebslam.com for an example.

*25 Oprah pictures total in the gallery:

[WENN]

Betty

What you are actually saying is that you want Oprah to fail, it is quite obvious that you are incensed that she is so successful and you would like nothing better than for her to fail. Take a look at yourself, you are hateful of a woman who has done nothing but positive things for people worldwide yet you feel negativity towards her. What does that say about you

8 inches

That I'm not obese.

Jay

Just because one venture fails does NOT make Oprah a 'huge failure' lol it merely shows that everyone is subject to the whims of the marketplace.

Anonymous

If you dis Oprah, you get on the WH watch list.

Lucian

How so? She is on a first name basis with the First Family and has an open invitation to the white house. She wears the key to Chicago around her neck. Failure, I don't think so.