Posted on 01/01/2011 2:25:48 PM PST by jimbo123
At precisely 12 o’clock on New Year’s Day, Oprah Winfrey welcomed television viewers to OWN, a cable channel that she has said will espouse her “live your best life” mantra.
OWN, short for The Oprah Winfrey Network, flickered to life in about 85 million television households in the United States, replacing the Discovery Health Channel. It is the highest-profile new cable channel in over a decade, and it represents an enormous risk for Ms. Winfrey, who is ending her daytime talk show later in the year.
“Happy New Year,” Ms. Winfrey said, “and welcome to OWN.”
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Is it possible to boycott something you’ve never watched ?
Formerly Discovery Health Channel, I guess. Propaganda/ad for it before showing of Gulliver’s Travels at the movie theater today. Not my bag.
i am not an Oprah fan, but gosh—this is a great idea... i think it’s a good move on her part...
Keep not watching it. And send an email to Procter and Gamble since they are a major sponsor of this channel and tell them to stop supporting her anti-American victim-class socialist propaganda.
Sadly Discovery Health was one of my favorite channels, mostly because it did not broadcast infomerials. Now it will just be one big infomercial for Ophra.
Oprah will be brainwashing dumb white women into think Palin is the devil - just watch.
Kelsey Grammer has been trying to get a slot for the Conservative Network. He cannot get a slot of satellite or cable on any system. Screw TV - ALL of it.
I had no idea until I was surfing and saw the network, they are presenting miraculous happenings at a shrine in New Mexico called Chimayo and another story about an angel appearing in a hospital outside the door of a very ill child.
Haven’t watched Oprah for decades but why should we boycott it? Is is because of her support of Obambam? Seems harmless enough but if she starts with the political propaganda then I will agree -
Personally I’m hoping she’s long past her saturation point and/or spoilage date.
Even truly great entertainers like Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams and Bob Cosby were eventually eclipsed by new audience tastes.
Barring that we can always count on old age and senility.
It is easy for me to boycott Orca Winfrey. I have never watched an episode of her show since its inception.
She’s a fake,phony, fraud and to top that all off, she is an embellisher. You all remember the book that her relative wrote? The one where the relative states flat out the other 0, oprah lied about everything in her story. Now if the relative was lying the - 0 could of gone after her.
Glenn Beck suffers an advertiser boycott but this ignorant harpie will have no problem getting willing and eager sponsors. Life isn’t fair.
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