The OWN Layoffs Begin…

12 Comments

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   Hol
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 6:39 am

   Should have been named EGO

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   notwithoutmytv
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 6:41 am

   Not only does it suck to lose your job, at OWN, being “laid off” translates to “prepared as dry rub barbecue for our ravenous Overbitch’s table.”

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   WaffleBoy
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 8:56 am

   The real question is when are executives at the Discovery channel going to start getting fired? They were the ones who green lit this money hole. It could be a grim Spring for Peter Liguroi

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   L Chienne
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 9:16 am

   More of this pompous ass’ preaching, plus Rosie O’Donnell. Now there’s the secret to success…

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   lindaw205
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 9:25 am

   She really did think if she built it they would come. Like the pied piper she would just lead all her minions to the happy trail of sucky TV.

   I have this image in my head of millions of heads of rats staring raptly at a tv and when it suddenly goes blank they look around with dazed looks like “wha……what were we doing?” and then wander away, looking for the next person to tell them what to read, eat, drive…..etc.

   Anyway, I feel bad for her employees who are losing their jobs. Oh, but wait a minute……she can have a car giveaway! Arrange for a big automaker to donate cars to them, oh, and take all the credit for giving the cars away like making people think the money is actually coming from her pocket! Yeh, that’s it, then when these poor people can’t afford the taxes on the free cars, or insurance, the IRS can come take them away. Oh but wait……didn’t something like that happen before???

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   RTVfan
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 9:27 am

   All I can say is I’m happy to see that all this overblown ego touches does NOT turn to gold. I hope this is a humbling experience for her.

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   anniedawg25
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 9:41 am

   good description, Linda. I wasn’t a hard-core Oprah fan, but I did watch her show from time to time when she’d have a good interview or expose. But when she left her show, and almost immediatley started OWN, I thought it was way too quick and felt too rushed. She had no shows lined up, there was no clear-cut plan as to what would happen. Plus her audience hadn’t had enough time to really miss her.

   …I’m picturing the firing went something like this: “…AND YOU get a pink slip, AND YOU get a pink slip, AND YOU get unemployment check….”

   so how much longer before this train-wreck of a network just goes bye-bye forever?

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   chaosbutterfly
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 9:56 am

   There is not one good show on OWN. Not one. And you can tell she doesn’t have any ideas or knows the first thing about running an entire network. It’s like those people you always see on Kitchen Nightmares who buy a restaurant without a clue. What did she think was gonna happen?

   She better call up the people who worked on Pushing Daisies and The Riches and some other great shows that got cancelled too early and ask them if they want to stage a comeback. Or hire some people to come up with some trashy reality tv shows. Because she keeps on churning out these crummy ass talk shows and trying to exploit people for ratings, there isn’t gonna be any “long term success” for OWN. And she knows it, so I don’t know why she’s pretending.

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   maryedith
   Posted March 20, 2012 at 11:40 am

   @chaosbutterfly, I now have an image in my head of Gordon Ramsay raking Oprah over the coals: “What were you THINKING?”, etc. Thanks! I like it!

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    cricketlizard
    Posted March 20, 2012 at 11:46 am

    I wonder if Oprah regrets her decision not to take on the production of All My Children and One Life to Live? She gave up the opportunity to lure millions of viewers to her network.

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    Hol
    Posted March 20, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    I admit it. I would have happily followed her over there if she had done that!

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    Jimbob Jones
    Posted March 21, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    
    anniedawg25:
    
    …I’m picturing the firing went something like this: “…AND YOU get a pink slip, AND YOU get a pink slip, AND YOU get unemployment check….”
    so how much longer before this train-wreck of a network just goes bye-bye forever?

    I think it would be more like “Everyone on that side of the conference room look under your seats!”