Fresh from having made the most significant endorsement of the 2008 presidential election campaign to date – which many analysts have credited with reviving Barack Obama’s run for the White House – talkshow queen Oprah Winfrey is getting her own TV network, it has been announced in New York.
Winfrey has signed a deal with Discovery Communications to create “OWN” – the Oprah Winfrey Network – next year. It will be available in more than 70 million homes.
“I always felt my show was just the beginning of what the future could hold,” said a thrilled Winfrey (whose own father, Vernon, is currently writing a tell-all book about).
No teaming up as Obama’s running mate for Oprah then, as some have suggested?