Oprah Winfrey

*Oprah Winfrey has nine million followers on Twitter, and regularly tweets out requests to tune into her one-year-old channel, OWN. But on Sunday night, her pleas crossed a line with the Nielsen ratings company when she tweeted: “Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen [sic] box,” just as a new episode of her interview show, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” began. That tweet broke a rule that the Nielsen rarely has to enforce, reports the New York Times . Nielsen...Read Full Story

The media mogul apologizes for asking followers with Nielsen boxes to tune into OWN. Hear the tweet at the heart of the controversy. Add this to your queue Added: Tue Feb 14 18:27:13 UTC 2012 Air date: Tue Feb 14 00:00:00 UTC 2012 Duration: 01:00Read Full Story

  LONDON: International talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has issued an apology for breaking TV ratings rules and urging fans to watch her "Oprah's Next Chapter" show instead of Grammy Awards. Contactmusic.com, the 58-year-old invited followers to turn off music's big night and switch to her network, OWN, by on micro-blogging site twitter. "Everyone who can please turn to OWN, especially if u have a Nielsen box (sic). Commercial Grammy people..you can turn to Own," she tweeted. But ratings...Read Full Story

Look at the time stamp on Oprah Winfrey’s Tweet from last night: just when the Grammys were starting. As if she was going to convince any of her 9+ million Twitter followers to turn the dial away from CBS and one of the most watched awards shows ever to… Hey, does anyone even know where exactly OWN lives on the remote? Nah. Problem is, Winfrey’s ploy backfired. People started attacking her as pathetic and desperate. (“Unethical is a little harsh, don’t you think?” Oprah bleated back…) One big...Read Full Story

The former daytime talk show queen has since removed the tweet which asked viewers to watch her cable channel OWN during Grammys telecast.Read Full Story

In memory of Whitney Houston, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will present a special two hour “Remembering Whitney: The Oprah Interview,” with the music legend’s last in-depth television interview from “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to air this Thursday, February 16 from 9-11 p.m. ET/PT on OWN. This special television event, what is arguably Houston’s most revealing and compelling interview of her career, will be rebroadcast as Winfrey reflects on her personal memories of the iconic superstar and...Read Full Story

News of Whitney Houston‘s death has shocked the world. Although the singer tried to make a comeback, her musical talents appeared to be overshadowed by her outrageous behavior and drug use. And it’s difficult to forget her most candid interview to date with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey — where she opened up about her drug... Read more»Read Full Story