Winfrey moved out of home station WLS and into the former Niles Studios in the West Loop, home mostly of commercials and industrials (and Marlin Perkins' intros and transitions--"Like animal mothers take care of their babies, your financial future will be taken care of by Mutual of Omaha"--on "Wild Kingdom"), in 1988--when her show ended in 2011 and she started OWN, Rosie O'Donnell's short-lived talk show for that chanel came out of the facility and it's been mostly idle since then, although some production work is done on OWN shows from the facility (and Oprah now lives in LA)--she's now looking at either selling some of the property or a refinancing:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-1002-oprah-harpo-20131002,0,7904491.story?utm_campaign=linkbox_override&utm_source=chicagotribune&utm_content=url Seems to me that if Oprah wanted to keep the studio running, she should've beared down on one of the OTA syndicated shows she partially owns (Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray, Dr. Oz) to move to Chicago and Harpo rather than take a chance on something for the cable channel. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
