Channel On Oprah

For decades cable channels have been built around specific interests like news, sports or classic movies. Beginning this weekend, there will be something altogether different: a cable channel shaped around a person, Oprah Winfrey.The channel, called OWN, short for the Oprah Winfrey Network, will depend in part on Ms. Winfrey's powerful role as a ta...

Winfrey, the billionaire queen of daytime television, is planning to announce Friday that she will step down from her daily pulpit, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," in two years.

For decades cable channels have been built around specific interests like news, sports or classic movies. Beginning this weekend, there will be something altogether different: a cable channel shaped around a person, Oprah Winfrey.The channel, called OWN, short for the Oprah Winfrey Network, will depend in part on Ms. Winfrey's powerful role as a ta...

Winfrey, the billionaire queen of daytime television, is planning to announce Friday that she will step down from her daily pulpit, "The Oprah Winfrey Show," in two years.