tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85330492125412269472012-02-16T20:10:00.813-08:00Oprah Ending Show | Oprah Announcement | Oprah | Oprah Leaving Chicago | Oprah Winfrey Network | Oprah Tickets | Oprah Ending Her Show 2011Izychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04299635052624470034noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8533049212541226947.post-20489788690375905682009-11-19T22:39:00.000-08:002009-11-19T23:00:42.900-08:002009-11-19T23:00:42.900-08:00After dominating the syndication business for over two decades, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will end its run next year -- and the ripple effects of this will shake up the industry she has dominated since the mid-1980's.<br /><br />"The sun will set on the Oprah show as its 25th season draws to a close on Sept. 9, 2011," said Tim Bennett, the president of Harpo Productions, Winfrey's production company, in a message to affiliates. <a href="http://www.trumpnetwork.com/ibarber">CBS Television </a>Distribution, Oprah's long-time distributor, said in a release: "We have the greatest respect for Oprah and wish her nothing but the best in her future endeavors." <br /><br />While Winfrey broke the news to staffers on Thursday, what hasn't been revealed is whether her show will move to the upcoming new OWN network -- a partnership between Winfrey and Discovery Communications. <br /><br />David Zaslav, president and chief executive of Discovery Communications, has been blunt about his desire to have Winfrey as a key on-air programming ingredient for the network -- a channel that has had major delays since it was announced. OWN is now expected to launch in January 2011. <br /><br />Winfrey departure has the speculated for weeks, and especially after Lisa Erspamer, a key show producer for the past three years, had been named chief creative officer of OWN recently. <br /><br />Winfrey's Monday through Friday show was one of the few first-run syndicated series that charge significant license fees from TV stations. For many stations, the afternoon talk show was deemed a lost <a href="http://www.trumpnetwork.com/ibarber">leader</a> in recent years because of those high fees. But all this was outweighed by Winfrey's significant lead-in viewership -- she gave TV stations early news TV programming. <br /><br />Had Winfrey gone on to renew her another syndication program deal with current distributor <a href="http://www.trumpnetwork.com/ibarber">CBS Television </a>Distribution -- or perhaps Sony Pictures Television -- her licenses fees would have been lowered, according to many executives. <br /><br />Winfrey's confirmed departure now opens up valuable time periods on TV stations that haven ot been available for almost thirty years. Key time slots are on ABC's owned-and-operated top ten market outlets where Winfrey's show has resided for over two decades.<br /><br />Source <a href="http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=117757">mediapost.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8533049212541226947-2048978869037590568?l=newsboutcelebrity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oxt2f1G9H7YifJ0wUu75yj4C2jg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oxt2f1G9H7YifJ0wUu75yj4C2jg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oxt2f1G9H7YifJ0wUu75yj4C2jg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/oxt2f1G9H7YifJ0wUu75yj4C2jg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/nvXj/~4/cbf7z3MP6L8" height="1" width="1"/>Izychttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04299635052624470034noreply@blogger.com0http://newsboutcelebrity.blogspot.com/2009/11/oprah-winfrey-calling-it-quits.html