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18
Jan

Chicago’s Oprah Winfrey to Start Own Television Network

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Business, Celebrity News

The more you have, the more you often want. As many people flush with cash, fame and power know all too well, you can never have it all and often never can have enough. For Chicago’s Oprah Winfrey, her own nationally syndicated talk show was only a stepping stone to greater ambitions.

Her goal all along has been to leverage its top-rated prowess to satiate a “vision of creating my own network” and motivate the masses “to be all they can be in the world and living their best lives”. On Tuesday, Winfrey in bed with the Discovery Channel revealed the realization of that long-standing reverie.

Coined with vanilla the Oprah Winfrey Network, it’s slated to open for business in the second half of 2009 in 70 million households on what’s currently the Discovery Health Network.

By Adam Fendelman