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FBN’s Dennis Kneale on the Oprah Winfrey Network’s new partnership with the Huffington Post.
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And you partnership today in the hopes it will boost the troubled network and Denis -- has the story.
Now it's it's not troubled what Oprah's on the your tennis when she's on the -- right I rocket but as I said to David does -- can't.
But he can't put -- on 24 hours -- day.
No you really can't I guess and and the other thing is I think a lot of shows just aren't good enough they that they lack -- buried nice kind of channel.
In an era when television is often very mean but I want to talk about the other major actor in this drama that as Ariana Huffington.
You know her website for having posted built a business -- north 300 million dollars by imitating Tom Sawyer and getting hundreds of writers and pundits to feed content her website -- -- Now -- to get a new source and content from the self made billionaire Oprah Winfrey.
And Huffington sold -- psychiatry at fifty million dollars last year still runs it slated to open up a new Oprah section on -- post starting in August.
But this is a marriage of the beleaguered deal Oprah -- a hard time lately with that cable network own she joint -- that would discovery.
And then carry on -- -- -- -- troubles grown -- recently lost her say over AOL's content and now runs only the site that she found it.
So will the deal really raise ratings for Oprah and increased web traffic for -- post the two titans they for rather odd couple Oprah self made billionaire.
-- talk TV couple decades from what I think it's only seven million visitors a month Oprah's.
Backs eight Adriana has -- -- -- -- post.
36 million that -- -- there's a month to morning Greece and graduated from Cambridge and -- this liberal warrior he's written thirteen books and that -- fifteen million dollars that she sold the site for.
Hurt investors likely -- most of that and that's one reason why Oprah is on the force 400 at 139 and area.
She's not on -- at all a.
-- couple things your Tim Armstrong reading -- well what's the hot person to talk to -- NCTA it would yeah fascinating to me 'cause he's not a cable guy.
He's an Internet -- they -- half -- And he said he will give her a bigger role but the issue now becomes will this relationship with opting for Huffington Post help boost owns viewership somehow.
I just don't see how it does the way to boost viewership.
Is to make better programs.
And right now a lot of that programming decisions up to -- business that is opus profit while the Rosie O'Donnell show us you find me but you know put it at 7 PM -- moms who traditionally are watching -- are making dinner -- their kids being I guess okay -- -- yes bank status very much.
Closing bell ringing and 37 minutes were down 36 point mutual fund -- Jack Bogle.
Well he of course found at the company that manages one point seven trillion dollars he is up next to reveal the one thing that should.
