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Oprah power

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Moving to cable, the daytime diva lifts the Maryland-based Discovery Channel into a new league

The news that "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is going to end after 25 years so that its host can devote herself to a new cable channel set off reverberations in TV and financial circles late last week. But nowhere was the effect felt more keenly than in Silver Spring, where the Maryland-based Discovery Communications was vaulted into a new realm of prominence and prestige as the future home of The Oprah Winfrey Network. "In one swoop, this jumps Discovery and, by extension, cable up to another league," says Douglas Gomery, media economist at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift big winners at AMAs

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:34:00 -0500

Jackson wins 4, but Swift wins 5, named artist of the year at AMAs

Z on TV: Talk radio earns good grades on Dixon trial

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:24:00 -0500

Reality Check: Adam Lambert at the American Music Awards

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:21:24 -0500

More in-fighting on 'The Amazing Race'

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:00:21 -0500

Winfrey to interview widow of Ted Kennedy

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:40:00 -0500

Another interview coup for Oprah Winfrey: Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Mary Beth Marsden leaving WMAR

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:54:00 -0500

Z on TV: What are you feeling as 'Jon & Kate' ends?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Hero pilot jokes about marital boost in NBC show

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:59:00 -0500

Pilot Chesley Sullenberger jokes that his heroic handling of a disabled jetliner brought him "rock star sex" in an interview for "NBC's People of the Year" TV special.

TV retailer QVC joins 'Black Friday' frenzy

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:45:00 -0500

Television retailer QVC has made aggressive plans to keep shoppers watching -- instead of mall-hopping -- on Black Friday, an event it has traditionally ignored.