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...called the queen of all media for nothing. The news that after 25 years Oprah Winfrey would be closing up shop on her afternoon talk show-cum-empire-building-exercise broke early, but she made the official announcement of the "real reason she was leaving" her way, and the way guaranteed to garner the most ratings: on her show...
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...
...government concentrator from Guilderland, N.Y. and a Cabot House resident, is a news writer and has covered University finances and Allston development. He will assume the president's post at the beginning of January...
...This was basically 10, 20 years in the making,” said outgoing Undergraduate Council president Andrea R. Flores ’10, who called this the “happiest news of [her] UC presidency...
...speech did little to revitalize flagging public support. The British public is skeptical about the central tenet of Brown's policy that engagement in the region prevents terrorism on British streets. According to a survey taken Nov. 13-16 by politicshome.com, a news website, 44% of Westminster insiders agreed that the West's involvement in Afghanistan had helped combat global terrorism, but only 21% of respondents outside the Westminster bubble shared this view...