FINALLY OPRAH HAS OWN NETWORK....blogged by Hollywood2020.blogs.com

Finally, Oprah has her OWN network and guess what's its called OWN -- Oprah Winfrey Network...blogged by Joyce [email protected] Hollywood2020.blogs.com. The best story we found about the new network is at CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com -- here's an excerpt that poignantly explains the origin of the new network which will feature Harpo programming and more in conjunction with DISCOVERY CHANNEL. (note no cash was exchanged on this deal...but ooh la la...what about all that advertising! and all those ancillary rights???)

EXCERPTED FROM CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com -- As Oprah Winfrey recalls it, she was struggling with whether her nationally syndicated talk show would or even could pull itself out of the muck that was enveloping daytime TV when she wrote a particularly ambitious yet prophetic journal entry.

She wrote on May 24, 1992, of wanting to leverage her top-rated program to fulfill her "vision of creating my own network" to teach people "to be all they can be in the world and living their best lives," Winfrey said Tuesday as she and Discovery Communications Chief Executive David Zaslav unveiled the fulfillment of that long-held dream.

OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is set to make its debut in the second half of next year in 70 million homes on what is now the Discovery Health Network

COMPLETE CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com article and other news references: Winfrey to start own TV network
Chicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours ago
She wrote on May 24, 1992, of wanting to leverage her top-rated program to fulfill her "vision of creating my own network" to teach people "to be all they ...