Oprah Winfrey is the highest-earning woman in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The former talk show host earned $290 million from May 2010 to May 2011, besting the second place earner, Lady Gaga, by $200 million. Take a look at the full list below: 1. Oprah Winfrey -$290 million 2. Lady Gaga – $90 million […]
The hardest working woman in showbiz is back to work after a brief hiatus. After relieving Christina Norman as CEO of her OWN network, Oprah tweeted a pic of herself in her new office digs in L.A. “Here I am “CEO-ing” in my new office at OWN in LA!!” Winfrey’s channel, which went live in […]
Someone just pissed Oprah off!! Oprah Winfrey was just rejected by Jenny McCarthy, who had signed a development deal in 2009 to create a series for OWN. Jenny is leaving the network and taking her show concept to NBC, a source tells Fox News. “Jenny wasn’t thrilled with the direction that OWN producers were going […]
The former queen of daytime Oprah Winfrey is now a CEO. Oprah Winfrey, whose successful talk show ended in May after 25 years, was named on Wednesday the chief executive and chief creative officer of OWN, the cable network she launched with Discovery Communications earlier this year. Winfrey posted a letter on Facebook today, explaining […]
You know how the saying goes, “Black don’t crack,” well although I’m black I can’t even front, I know sometimes this is a bald head lie, plain and simple. There are many African American’s that just don’t age well. Period. BUT, as a whole I have to say my beautiful people of color age pretty […]
O.J Simpson has reportedly confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he murdered his former wife, Nicole Simpson Brown. Oprah made headlines recently saying that one of her regrets was never having got the disgraced football player to confess to the killing. “I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” she said at the National […]
Oprah Winfrey has revealed the real reason why she’s ending her daytime talk show after 25 years on the air. In an editorial published in her ‘O’ magazine this month, Oprah revealed that a dying 12-year-old boy told her to end her show at the 25-year mark: Winfrey says that Mattie Stepanek – a child […]
Radio One CEO/Founder Cathy Hughes has been named #2 in an impressive lineup of 30 Black women in media. Congratulations also goes out to the following from our Radio One family: 93.9 WKYS program director Neke Howse, Majic 102.3 and Praise 104.1 program director Jamillah Muhammad and the rest of our Radio One family who […]
Christina Norman, head of the four-month old Oprah Winfrey Network, has been dismissed. According to the NY Times, Peter Liguori, the chief operating officer for Discovery Communications, will take over the channel on an interim basis. Mr. Ligouri’s appointment is effective immediately and will likely last into the fall, if not longer. 25 Women To […]
TIME has picked their 100 most influential people in the world. They are artists and activists, reformers and researchers, heads of state and captains of industry. Their ideas spark dialogue and dissent and sometimes even revolution. Here are a few of 2011’s TIME 100: And check out last year’s list here: Who Made The Cut? […]
Oprah Winfrey is the Queen of daytime television. When she decided to give away new cars to her whole audience, it was done. When she decided to film a few episodes in Australia, no questions asked. Normally, if she asks for something, people bend heaven and earth to get it for her, because she is […]
Is Oprah a religious icon? No, seriously, I’m actually asking this. I can’t believe that I am actually asking this, but I am, because according to the New York Post, a Yale professor who has studied almost every episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show show from the last 12 years says the enormous success of […]
