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Struggling to Find an Audience
Winfrey calls network the ‘climb of her life’
(AP)— Oprah Winfrey says cre
"You know that song, 'The Time
ating her new cable network has of My Life’? I've had the climb of my
turned out to be a steep climb.
life," she cracked.
"I’m climbing Kilimanjaro," she
Tiiesday-Saturday 9am-7pm
The network has struggled to
told advertisers Thursday at a pre build an audience since its launch in
Monday 10am-4pm
sentation for OWN: The Oprah January 2011. It recently announced
Winfrey Network. She quickly ex severe staff layoffs and a manage
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plained that her Kilimanjaro is at the ment shakeup with Discovery Com
and your kitty will be pretty.
offices of OWN.
munications Inc., the company that's
bankrolled it with $300 million-plus.
But Winfrey struck a hopeful note
in her brief remarks, even as she
allowed she's still nowhere near the
channel's summit of success.
"W ith our restructuring and
right-sizing and getting into the
sauce of what needs to happen ev
ery day, I feel like I can at least now
see the summit," she said.
OWN was unveiling four new
prime-time series, including "Elura
and Michele Take Staten Island," a
reality series with two outspoken
former prosecutors who tell people
how to straighten out their prob
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the author and inspirational speaker
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TV personality and media mogul
Oprah Winfrey says creating her
new cable network is turning
out to be the climb of her life.
on "CBS This Morning" about her
challenges at OWN.
"The idea of creating a network
was something that I wanted to do,"
she told the program's co-host —
and her best friend— Gayle King on
Monday. She added, "Had I known
that it was this difficult, I might have
done something else."
"If I knew then what I know now,
I might have made different choices,"
she declared. "If I were writing a
book about it, I could call the book
'101 Mistakes.'"
Among those mistakes: going on
the air before the network was ready.
But Winfrey insisted, "I feel bet
ter about our network now, today,
than I ever have."