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EXCLUSIVE: Oprah Signs With WME

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday January 24, 2013 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: CAA, Oprah Winfrey, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, WME

Oprah Winfrey WME Hollywood AgencyEXCLUSIVE: CAA lost the longtime top client in late December. And now I’ve learned that Oprah Winfrey has signed with WME‘s Ari Emanuel and Rick Rosen and a team of agents. The big signing comes after Oprah and her cable network OWN scored 3.2 million viewers for her confessional sit-down with disgraced doper Lance Armstrong. I understand today’s move culminates a long slow wooing by the agency, the same kind that WME has done with Dick Wolf (successfully) and Shonda Rhimes (unsuccessfully, for the moment), and some other key TV creators and producers. Winfrey had been a very important client for CAA. Among other things, the agency put together her deal with Discovery Communications for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. But Oprah isn’t an easy client by any means.

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Discovery Chief Says OWN Will Begin To Break Even In Late 2013

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 6:59am PDTTags: David Zaslav, Discovery Communications, Oprah Winfrey, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network

Oprah Winfrey OWNDiscovery CEO David Zaslav wants Wall Street to ignore the “noise” about financial losses at his OWN joint venture with Oprah Winfrey. “We have a long way to go,” he told analysts this morning, … Read More »

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Discovery Falls Short Of Q1 Forecasts With OWN Losses, But Ups Stock Repurchase

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday May 8, 2012 @ 4:13am PDTTags: Discovery Communications, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network

Discovery EarningsWe’ll see pretty soon whether investors are more impressed by the $1B Discovery is adding to its stock-repurchase program than they are disappointed by the Q1 results — which include losses from its OWN joint venture with Oprah … Read More »

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‘Oprah Lifeclass’ Live Chats To Continue

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 12:04pm PDTTags: Oprah Winfrey, Oprah's Lifeclass, OWN, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network

The live online discussions with Oprah Winfrey that OWN featured during premiere week of its new series Oprah’s Lifeclass will continue, the network said today. Winfrey will participate in the conversations on Fridays from 9-10 PM ET, immediately after episodes … Read More »

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OK Start For OWN’s Rosie O’Donnell Show

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 11, 2011 @ 4:05pm PDTTags: Cable Ratings, Oprah's Lifeclass, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, Rosie O'Donnell, The Rosie Show
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Has Oprah’s Star Power Dimmed? Relaunch Of OWN Will Put That To The Test

Struggling cable network OWN saw the kind of triple-digit ratings increases over predecessor Discovery Health that it had been seeking with last night’s launches … Read More »

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