Part of Winfrey's new strategy is integrating OWN's staff in L.A. with Harpo's staff in Chicago.
OWN, a joint venture between Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Inc. and cable programmer Discovery Communications Inc.
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Winfrey has launched several stars, first test-driven on her TV show and then signed by her production company, Harpo.
Harpo presidents Sheri Salata and Erik Logan were tapped as OWN presidents in July and will lead both teams.
Through her Harpo productions, Winfrey still has her hand in Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray and The Dr. Oz Show.
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Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo promoted comic anarchy, not the political kind.
OWN's 24-hour-a-day programming launched on Jan. 1 in 80 million homes as a partnership between Winfrey's Harpo production company and cable programming powerhouse Discovery Communications.
She opened Harpo Studios in 1985 and Harpo Productions in 1988.
The Dr. Oz Show, which launched last fall under Winfrey's Harpo banner, is designed to make health topics from swine flu to orgasms informative and entertaining.
The move will allow her to focus on her channel in development, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a joint venture between her Harpo Productions and Discovery Communications.
Winfrey's Harpo Productions Inc. provided CNN with several preview clips.
Madonna was speaking on The Oprah Winfrey show (Harpo Productions).
Oprah Winfrey is a billionaire because of the value of her holdings in things like Discovery and Harpo Productions, not because of the ad revenue her show generated over the years.
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The majority of Oprah's net worth stems from 25 years of her profitable daytime TV show, plus earnings from her Harpo production company, which has a hand in the Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray and Dr. Oz shows.
She has yet to take a salary at OWN, so her sources of revenue are now the shows she produces through her Harpo production company (like Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray), her satellite radio station and her magazine.
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Winfrey even touched on the extraordinary ways people have gotten her attention for their causes. (As you can imagine, her phone rings quite often.) Someone even cleverly bought a billboard to promote the change with puppy mills that she would see on her way to the Harpo offices.
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