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(21,095 posts) Mon Mar 19, 2012, 07:22 PM Mar 2012

Oprah Winfrey Network Lays Off One-Fifth Of Staff

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey's struggling television network, OWN, said Monday it is laying off one-fifth of its workers and restructuring its operations in New York and Los Angeles.

The decision to let 30 employees go is a "tough" one, but the economics of a start-up cable network didn't fit with OWN's cost structure, Winfrey said in a statement.

"As CEO, I have a responsibility to chart the course for long-term success for the network. To wholly achieve that long-term success, this was a necessary next step," Winfrey said.

The responsibilities of the laid-off workers will be distributed among people with the network and its venture partners, Discovery Communications and Winfrey's Harpo Studios, according to OWN.

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I don't know where you can get the network liberal N proud Mar 2012 #1

I get OWN CountAllVotes Mar 2012 #2

liberal N proud

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1. I don't know where you can get the network

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Mon Mar 19, 2012, 07:53 PM

Mar 2012

It is not on most cable providers basic offerings.

The only way a network is going to make it is saturation. If people can't find it, they won't watch it and advertisers will not buy air time.

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2. I get OWN

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 19, 2012, 08:43 PM

Mar 2012

I have the standard ~$50.00 a month plan.
Doesn't have much on it but OWN is on channel 53 for what that might be worth.

I watch OWN quite often I must admit. Some interesting stuff on there at times!

Hope it picks up for her!

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