Lady O Gets Her OWN Network!

USA Today is reporting that Oprah just inked a deal with Discovery Communication for her own cable channel. The cable-and-Internet joint venture will include a network she'll run called OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. In the cashless transaction, Discovery will contribute its Discovery Health Channel to be rebranded as OWN in 2009 and simulcast in High Definition. The channel, launched in 1999, reaches more than 70 million cable and satellite subscribers. Winfrey's company, Harpo, will kick in her website, Oprah.com, which the companies say tallies more than 6 million unique visitors and 80 million pageviews each month. Winfrey will be chairman of the independent venture, to be named The Oprah Winfrey Network LLC, and wield full editorial control. The partners will look for a CEO to handle day-to-day operations. Seriously....Lady O....how fuckin amazing are you????? Her empire has just grown to the point where it is just no longer worth discussion. Lady O says: "For me, the launch of 'The Oprah Winfrey Network' is the evolution of the work I've been doing on television all these years and a natural extension of my (syndicated daytime) show." The new partners gave no details of programming plans for OWN — or whether it might someday be home for her show. The syndication contract for her TV show with CBS-owned King World Productions expires in 2011. I am excited!! Not just because Oprah rules the universe, but also because I watch Discovery Health Channel on a regular basis. So I can only imagine that Lady O is going to give it that extra upgrade that will make me love it even more. As long as she don't fuck with my Mystery Diagnosis.... CONGRATS LADY O! If she doesn't inspire you then I don't know what will. This is the lady who collected roaches and made them her friends. Yeah.....dreams most certainly do come true. TRIVIA: Who knows what Oprah's middle name is?