Oprah's OWN Network To Be Rebooted

[firepoint525]

Maybe they should try re-airing old episodes of Oprah's show. I'm not talking the past 3 years, episodes possibly from the 80s and 90s. It would be neat to see them and it could help the network. Just an opinion.

She does have them all...she just doesn't want to air them at all. Oxygen got her to put a stake in their network in 2000 based on the fact she offered them reruns to air, but when they really needed them she refused to air them and instead offered "Oprah After the Show" for a couple of years before they parted ways.

If you were Oprah, would you want them to air again? Remember when she bragged about her weight loss, only to gain it all back? Imagine if the weight-loss episode were to air back-to-back with an episode after she gained her weight back?

 

[EddieTheRapFan]

An Oldies MTV! (only I would actually play Music Videos All day)

Well, as far as I know there's already VH1 Classic for that

Even they have gotten away from playing videos in recent years.

Yeah. And they don't play videos all the time except for these rare occasions where they play 80s A-Z songs or artists in alphabetical order

Are you sure you're talking about VH1 Classic instead of the normal VH1? According to its schedule, VH1 Classic shows videos and music programming all day long, save for the primetime (8-11pm)

 

[DToTheJ]

... Here in Canada, the company with the Canadian rights to the name went all out to shut down a station that already targeted women and had okay ratings, just to be relaunched as OWN...and nobody's watching! The lesson: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

The thing is, Discovery Health, as far as appeal to advertising demos, was broken.

 

[azumanga]

... Here in Canada, the company with the Canadian rights to the name went all out to shut down a station that already targeted women and had okay ratings, just to be relaunched as OWN...and nobody's watching! The lesson: If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

The thing is, Discovery Health, as far as appeal to advertising demos, was broken.

In Canada, OWN replaced VIVA (the former Canadian Learning Television) -- Discovery Health in Canada is now Twist TV.

 

[ding12]

Maybe they should try re-airing old episodes of Oprah's show. I'm not talking the past 3 years, episodes possibly from the 80s and 90s. It would be neat to see them and it could help the network. Just an opinion.

She does have them all...she just doesn't want to air them at all. Oxygen got her to put a stake in their network in 2000 based on the fact she offered them reruns to air, but when they really needed them she refused to air them and instead offered "Oprah After the Show" for a couple of years before they parted ways.

If you were Oprah, would you want them to air again? Remember when she bragged about her weight loss, only to gain it all back? Imagine if the weight-loss episode were to air back-to-back with an episode after she gained her weight back?

I'm sure she could select which episodes to re-air and not re-air all of them.

Anwyays I doubt she would fill her network with old episodes, just like SoapNet doesn't air General Hospital episodes from the 1990s, even though both had strong ratings at the time.

 

[firepoint525]

An Oldies MTV! (only I would actually play Music Videos All day)

Well, as far as I know there's already VH1 Classic for that

Even they have gotten away from playing videos in recent years.

Yeah. And they don't play videos all the time except for these rare occasions where they play 80s A-Z songs or artists in alphabetical order

Are you sure you're talking about VH1 Classic instead of the normal VH1? According to its schedule, VH1 Classic shows videos and music programming all day long, save for the primetime (8-11pm)

"Music programming" does not necessarily mean "videos." It could include videos, but often does not.

 

[EddieTheRapFan]

"Music programming" does not necessarily mean "videos." It could include videos, but often does not.

Yup, you're right.