OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is a USA television channel.
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network is a cable television channel that says it is "devoted to self-discovery, to connecting you to your best self and to the world." It covers health, home and relationships, primarily for women. Programming includes dramatic and comedic series produced by Tyler Perry and talk shows hosted by people such as Gayle King (a close friend of Oprah), country singer Shania Twain, journalist Lisa Ling and relationship advice expert Dr. Laura Berman.
Oprah Winfrey has been on TV for over 40 years, starting as a news anchor then hosting "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on broadcast television, and she appears regularly on OWN. The channel was launched on January 1, 2011 and replaced the Discovery Health Channel on cable TV. As a result, at launch the channel was available in over 70 million American homes. OWN was a 50/50 joint venture between Winfrey and Discovery Communications Inc. (later Discovery, Inc.) until December 2017, when Winfrey sold most of her interest to Discovery.
On April 8, 2022, Discovery merged with WarnerMedia to form a new business called Warner Bros. Discovery.
This television channel is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
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