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CHICAGO and SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- In an unprecedented deal, Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications announced plans today to create "OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network." The new multi-platform media venture will be designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives. OWN will debut in 2009 in more than 70 million homes, on what is currently the Discovery Health Channel. The venture will ... include the award-winning digital platform, Oprah.com.
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Oprah Winfrey, who some of you might know as both a popular talk-show host as well as the name behind Hearst's O, the Oprah Magazine and O At Home, is starting a cable channel. It's called "OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network," with Discovery Communications. Is she going to do it right this time? more
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Discovery Communications, a unit of Discovery Holding Co. , said Tuesday it will form a joint venture with Oprah Winfrey to create "OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network." OWN will debut in 2009 in more than 70 million homes, Discovery said. (Corrects that company unit, Discovery Communications, rather than company, is forming joint venture with Oprah.)... At MarketWatch
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