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Oprah Winfrey is an illustrious African-American female, who has been labeled by numerous analysts as the Empress of daytime TV in America. She has been lauded as a sensitive and insightful host of her legendary talk show, ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ (TOWS), which is scheduled to terminate in September this year after being telecast for more than 20 years. Meanwhile, Oprah’s new American TV channel, OWN, initiated on January 1, received some decent marks/ratings on its opening weekend. OWN is an abbreviation of Oprah Winfrey Network.

On January 1, during the block of 180 minutes commencing at 8pm, OWN magnetized an average of one million spectators, as per the initial statistics discharged by the network.

OWN has remarked that, during Saturday’s 8pm and 9 pm hours, OWN was at the third spot among all the cable networks backed by commercials. The audience demographics were the 25-to-54-year-old category. OWN was telecasting chapters of its reality series, titled, ‘Season 25: Oprah Behind The Scenes’ (OBTS). The premiere of the Season 25 of OBTS received an average of 1.160 million viewers at night on Saturday. OBTS tracks Oprah as she catalogs the ultimate season of her daytime chat program, TOWS. The second episode of OBTS procured 1.196 million viewers, as per Nielsen.

Only ESPN along with USA Network were above Oprah during that period. On Sunday, the network received in the region of 822,000 viewers.

OWN, which was initiated at noon on Saturday, is obtainable in 80 per cent of the American abodes with cable.OWN was the replacer of Discovery Health on the cable systems across America. The network is collaboration between Oprah and the Discovery Channel. On Sunday, the network’s initial ‘Ask Oprah’s All Stars’ special was watched by 968,000 folks from 8-10 p.m., as indicated by Nielsen. This special consisted of Dr. Mehmet Oz, Suze Orman and Dr. Phil McGraw, who responded to queries from the viewers. This discussion was moderated by Robin Meade.