Oprah Winfrey's media empire is about to get a lot bigger with the announcement Tuesday of a deal with Discovery Communication for her own cable channel.
The cable-and-Internet joint venture will include a network she'll run called OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
In the cashless transaction, Discovery will contribute its Discovery Health Channel to be rebranded as OWN in 2009 and simulcast in HD. The channel, launched in 1999, reaches more than 70 million cable and satellite subscribers.
Winfrey's company Harpo will kick in her...
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Those parents are nice and funny to trick the kid of getting the wrong game and giving him christmas lights...
Origami artist Eric Joisel created these Lord of the Rings sculptures of the Three Hunters (Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, and Legolas the Elf). Every model created on this page is fashioned from only ONE UNCUT SQUARE of paper.
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Kathy Griffin and her boyfriend, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, went to the grand opening of Diablo’s Cantina at the Monte Carlo Resort & Casino on Saturday night.
Griffin, who split with her husband last year -- after accusing him of stealing over $70,000 from her -- must be over the moon happy to be dating a guy who has that much money in between his couch cushions.
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Madonna is close to leaving her long-time Warner Bros. Records label for a wide-ranging $US120 million (A$134 million) deal with concert promotion firm Live Nation.
The story was first reported on the Wall Street Journal's website, which said Madonna would receive a mix of cash and stock in exchange for allowing Live Nation to distribute three studio albums, promote concert tours, sell merchandise and license her name.
A Live Nation spokesman declined comment. A source familiar with Warner confirmed the basic details of the report.
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Jamiroquai and Oasis, two major names that are not contracted to a record labels, are rumoured to be considering following Radiohead by offering work for free, according to industry sources.
Radiohead refuse to reveal how many fans have pre-ordered their seventh album, In Rainbows, but figures from HitWise show the move pushed the site up from number 43 to the top slot for music websites in the UK.
Google say that searches for Radiohead have increased tenfold this week as fans log on to the band’s site, with the majority – according...
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In a groundbreaking study, two Harvard scientists have for the first time extracted human DNA from ancient artifacts. The work potentially opens up a new universe of sources for ancient genetic material, which is used to map human migrations in prehistoric times.
Before this, archaeologists could only get ancient DNA from relics of the human body itself, including prehistoric teeth, bones, fossilized feces, or — rarely — preserved flesh. Such sources of DNA are hard to find, poorly preserved, or unavailable because of cultural and...
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