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...timing. For her fans, and the stations who carry her talk-fest - and certainly for book authors whose work she championed - the final air date of Sept. 9, 2011 is all too soon. But given what Oprah wants to do next, it might be too late. She's leaving network TV to focus on creating OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a new cable channel that she's launching with Discovery Communications. She announced the venture almost two years ago but it will not start airing until January...
...Plus, network TV is not the 800-lb gorilla it once was. Most big media companies (see Disney or News Corp.) are seeing more growth and profit in their cable operations, which have a more reliable income stream than broadcast advertising. Audiences are slipping away, and with them, high syndication fees. "Television stations have made it crystal clear that [Oprah's] show was going to get an enormous haircut if it comes back," one syndicator told trade publication Broadcasting & Cable. "Why would she want to subject herself to that when she's in such an iconic position...
...nobody, not even Oprah herself, knows what kind of a creature the post-network-show Oprah is. Her afternoon chat-fest occupied a unique niche: uplifting yet practical, gossipy yet worthy, it harnessed the growing commercial and social power of women over the last two decades. It was monolithic in a way that's no longer possible, even for Oprah. It was a pioneer in what is now a crowded field. (See more about the Oprah...
Consensus on this question would be helpful because professional cancer organizations, cancer hospitals and doctors base their screening guidelines on the advice of nationally recognized groups - like the American Cancer Society and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (or NCCN, a coalition of National Cancer Institute-designated hospitals), and the USPSTF. Neither the ACS nor the NCCN intends to modify its guidelines for yearly breast-cancer screening in all healthy women over...
...remark didn’t strike me as particularly odd. I’d grown accustomed to similar digs over the past three years in a network of caustic and insightful peers. But when framed in the context of competitiveness, the comment seemed a bit more upsetting. Maybe the academic rivalry was not overwhelming at Harvard, but didn’t the stress of personal competition fill every day and every interaction? Who was working where? Who was going someplace exotic for J-term? Whose social life seemed more fulfilling? Who seemed happy...