Oprah Winfrey was named on Wednesday the chief executive and chief creative officer of OWN, the cable network she launched earlier this year. Winfrey posted a letter on Facebook today, explaining that Harpo Productions Inc. will join forces with OWN to run the network. The letter read: So as of today… Harpo Team and OWN […]

Chicago — Oprah Winfrey’s new OWN channel averaged 1 million viewers with its first night of prime-time programming Saturday, according to preliminary Nielsen figures released Monday. That’s up a whopping 389% from what Discovery Health, the network OWN replaced, averaged a year ago. As part of the initial outing, the premiere of “Season 25: Oprah […]