OPRAH WINFREY's vast entertainment empire will expand next year with the creation of her own TV network. She will chair the Oprah Winfrey Network, or OWN, which will become available in nearly 70 million homes on cable and satellite TV. The joint venture between Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Discovery Communications will replace the Discovery Health network. Under the agreement, the talk show queen will relinquish half-ownership of her Oprah.com website.
Programs on the Oprah Winfrey Network may focus on issues such as money, health and relationships -- not unlike The Oprah Winfrey Show. But you might not see much of Winfrey on the network when it debuts, since she'll keep busy with her talk show under a contract that runs through May, 2011.
Still, Winfrey says, quote, "I will now have the opportunity to do this 24 hours a day on a platform that goes on forever." Oprah's already the face of several media projects, including a magazine, TV movies and her website.
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