Oprah Winfrew

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...

I do not snivel. And I do not have afternoons free to cry with Oprah. But when Oprah cries not as interviewer but as interviewee, I go running to YouTube to Catch some weepie Winfrey. Ouch.   So what gets the mistress of talk show empathy to break down and ask for a tissue to wipe large tears rolling down? The other TV queen Barbara Walte...

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...

I do not snivel. And I do not have afternoons free to cry with Oprah. But when Oprah cries not as interviewer but as interviewee, I go running to YouTube to Catch some weepie Winfrey. Ouch.   So what gets the mistress of talk show empathy to break down and ask for a tissue to wipe large tears rolling down? The other TV queen Barbara Walte...