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Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is an American basic cable channel jointly owned by Discovery Inc. and Harpo Studios that launched on January 1, 2011, replacing the Discovery Health Channel.
Initially a 50/50 joint venture, Discovery acquired a larger stake in the network in 2017. Harpo remains a “significant” minority stakeholder and Winfrey is contracted with the channel through at least 2025.
As of February 2015, OWN is available to approximately 81.9 million pay television households (70.3% of households with television) in the United States.
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OWN published this video item, entitled “A Couple on Opposite Ends of the Political Spectrum | The Oprah Winfrey Show | Oprah Winfrey Network” – below is their description.
In the lead up to the 1988 presidential election between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” hosted a discussion featuring families divided by their political beliefs. In this clip from the episode, a Democrat and her husband, a conservative man, open up about their differing political ideologies. Watch as the couple discusses the first debate between Bush and Dukakis, who they perceive won that debate, and which social and economic issues produce the most tension between them.
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In This Story: Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American talk show host and businesswoman. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011.
Dubbed the “Queen of All Media”, she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America’s first black multi-billionaire.
In 2008, she formed her own network, Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
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