Michael King, who with his brother Roger was behind the syndication of the mega-successful Oprah, Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray shows, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 66. King had been in intensive care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and was taken off life support after being admitted with pneumonia…

Oprah Winfrey Network said this afternoon it will pay tribute to Robin Williams on Sunday, repeating two episodes of syndicated The Oprah Winfrey Show in which he appeared. Related: Singular Talent Robin Williams Dead At 63 In all, Williams appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s syndicated talker 14 times. At 7 PM Sunday, OWN…

Anderson Cooper’s upcoming syndicated daytime talk show is adding another executive producer. The Oprah Winfrey veteran Lisa Morin is joining Jim Murphy and Cooper as an executive producer on the Telepictures-produced strip, set to premiere Sept. 12. In his quote about Morin, Murphy displays some pretty lofty…

At Looong Last Oprah Leaves Daytime TV The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday posted a 13.3 household rating in the overnight metered markets. The preliminary number — which does not include the St. Louis market, where Oprah was preempted for storm coverage — was the highest-rated in 17 years, since a…

Sheesh, I thought she would never exit her syndicated show. (I scooped the news all the way back on Nov. 9, 2009.) Not a fan, though I know millions are. And we’re each entitled to our opinion. But the saccharine sign-off Oprah Winfrey used to end her daytime talker made me reach for my insulin: “I won’t say goodbye…

Harpo Productions confirmed May 25 as the date for the last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which is wrapping after 25 years. The talker has been in reruns of late, but Winfrey wrote on Twitter on Thursday that new episodes will air beginning April…

Los Angeles, Thursday, January 20, 2011 – The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, announced today the nominees for its 22nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards.  By recognizing and honoring media for…

EXCLUSIVE: Did Oprah Winfrey go too far in promoting her new cable network OWN as well as sister Discovery Communications nets on her syndicated talk show? I hear broadcast stations are upset over several shows last week that they believe crossed a line into self-promotion that encourages viewers to tune to cable and…

Oprah’s highly publicized sitdown with Michael Jackson’s parents and kids yesterday drew an 8.1 household rating, a season high for the talk show queen, now in the final season of her syndicated talk show. The episode, Oprah Talks To Michael Jackson's Mother, Katherine, And Visits With His Children, was also Oprah’s…

Chalk two up for the underdogs. True, full 52-week season rankings are pretty meaningless because they include the summer off-season numbers that are dragged down by repeats. But Nielsen keeps track of them and just released the data for the official 2009-2010 season which ended Sunday. So Judge Judy topped Oprah in…

File this under awkward timing. Discovery Communications this morning issued a press release touting the fact that it had just been named one of the “10 Best Places To Work” by Working Mother magazine. Around the same time, The Oprah Winfrey Show announced that it has landed the first interview with the Discovery…

It wasn’t exactly the big ratings bang that would be appropriate for the debut of the biggest daytime talk show’s final season, but given all the lows The Oprah Winfrey Show hit this summer, it was an encouraging news. The final season of Winfrey’s talk show, which featured guest John Travolta and Australian vacation…