From Broadcasting Cable | Government regulators granted permission for the Web property Oprah.com to be transferred from Harpo Productions to Oprah Winfry’s new cable venture OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
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Oprah shuts down Angel Network charity
Associated Press | Oprah Winfrey’s charity, The Angel Network, is shutting down as her talk show draws to a close. The network stopped accepting donations this week and said on its website that it plans to dissolve as soon as its remaining funds are disbursed.
Oprah Store to open at Water Tower Place
By Sandra M. Jones | Oprah Winfrey makes no secret about loving to shop. Now, she is headed to the mall, literally.
The talk show star plans to open a mini Oprah Store at Water Tower Place in Chicago on Thursday.
The 138-square-foot shop — an upscale kiosk Harpo Retail calls a microsalon – marks the second retail outpost for Winfrey and could signal broader retail ambitions.
The window at Winfrey’s first store, 37 N. Carpenter St., across from her West Side studio (Harpo Productions, Inc./George Burns) >>
Oprah Winfrey hires manager for her billions
Dow Jones Newswires-Wall Street Journal | Oprah Winfrey has made a fortune in television, magazines and movies. Now she has hired someone to manage it.
Winfrey, one of the most powerful brands in media, has begun setting
up a so-called family office to handle her personal investments,
according to people familiar with the situation. Her first hire: Peter
Adamson, a well-regarded investor who currently serves as chief
investment officer for Eli Broad, the Los Angeles billionaire and
philanthropist.
Kohl’s to sponsor Oprah’s new reality series
A Kohl’s store in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
By Sandra M. Jones | Kohl’s Department Stores is going Hollywood.
The discount department store chain signed a deal with the Oprah Winfrey Network to sponsor the talk show diva’s new reality series. “Your Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star” and plans to hold auditions in its stores in June.
Bookies setting odds on Oprah’s last giveaway
From Casino Gambling Web | Bookies are starting to set odds on what, if anything, Oprah Winfrey will give away on her last broadcast of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Odds are running 2-to-1 on a charitable donation while expensive jewelry is considered a long shot at 30-to-1. Winfrey, who gave everyone in the audience a car to kick off her 22nd season, wraps up the show at the end of the 2011 season.
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P&G, Oprah Winfrey Network sign media deal
From Reuters | Procter & Gamble
Co. announced that it has signed a multiyear advertising deal with OWN:
The Oprah Winfrey Network. The Wall Street Journal reported the story
first, citing sources who said it was a three-year deal valued at more
than $25 million annually.
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Oprah plans evening program on OWN
By Phil Rosenthal | Oprah Winfrey plans to do an evening program for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, the new cable venture set to launch next year as she is wrapping up the 25th and final season of her Chicago-based syndicated daytime talk show.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the nighttime cable show, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” likely will make its debut in late 2011 and run as many as two or three times a week.
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Oprah’s Nate Berkus to do show from New York
By Phil Rosenthal
| Chicago designer Nate Berkus’s daytime TV show for
Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television is going
to be produced in New York, it was announced Monday.
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Oprah surprises her own partners at event
From the L.A. Times’ Company Town | Oprah Winfrey surprised her Discovery Communications partners at a big presentation to advertisers in Chicago yesterday. Winfrey was not scheduled to attend the event held to promote Discovery’s cable channels — including the Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint venture between Discovery and Winfrey — but changed her mind Tuesday afternoon and dropped in about 15 minutes after it started. She got a spotlight welcome.
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Oprah Winfrey settles U.S. defamation suit
Associated Press | Oprah Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a headmistress she had accused of performing poorly at her South African girls school, where some students claimed they were abused, lawyers said Tuesday.
The lawsuit by former headmistress Nomvuyo Mzamane claimed Winfrey defamed her in remarks made in the wake of the 2007 sex-abuse scandal at the school. The headmistress said she had trouble finding a job after.
Obama designer Pinto liquidating boutique
Clothing designer Maria Pinto in her studio on 135 N. Jefferson St. in Chicago. (Bonnie Trafelet/Chicago Tribune)
By Wendy Donahue | All of the praise for Michelle Obama’s grape and tomato-colored sheaths couldn’t bear enough fruit to spare their Chicago-based designer — Maria Pinto — from the recession’s blight.
Pinto, whose work has been worn not only by the country’s first lady but also queen-of-talk Oprah Winfrey, will open her West Loop boutique for five final days starting Tuesday. Her daywear, eveningwear, wraps and one-of-a-kind accessories will be sold for 50 percent to 70 percent off their original prices.
Fitness trainers sue Oprah’s Harpo Productions
By William Lee | Fitness trainers Dina Castillo and Frank Nunez were riding a wave after they were asked to create a customized fitness program just for employees of Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Inc. in summer 2008.
The married owners of Unicus Fitness were even asked to appear on a program on Winfrey’s XM Radio channel hosted by the talk show queen’s former trainer.
