Why is Oprah so powerful?

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited July 2008 in The Clubhouse
Really. Why?

I keeping seeing her listed as one of the most, if not THE MOST, powerful person in the entertainment business year after year. I have only noticed her talk show, her "O" magazine, and some TV movies her production company produced. That's it.

So what's the deal with that?
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2008
    It's all her talk show. A large, large number of women listen to WHATEVER she says. She mentions a book on her show and it's instantly a bestseller.

    Buncha nutty hens if you ask me. You ever seen the audience of that show screaming like a bunch of whackos every time she speaks? Pathetic.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2008
    She's a friggin' witch!!!
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited July 2008
    Sold her soul to the debil?
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  • leroyjr1
    leroyjr1 Posts: 8,785
    edited July 2008
    ND13 wrote: »
    She's a friggin' witch!!!



    Very rich witch that is!!!!!!!!
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited July 2008
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    It's all her talk show. A large, large number of women listen to WHATEVER she says. She mentions a book on her show and it's instantly a bestseller.

    Maybe Polk Audio can demo some speakers on her show? :D

    How big is her daily audience? Can't possibly be bigger than, for example, Jerry Seinfeld's when he had a show.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited July 2008
    The moment Oprah endorsed Obama, Hillary didn't stand a chance. So yeah, she's got power -- enough to get presidents elected.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2008
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    How big is her daily audience? Can't possibly be bigger than, for example, Jerry Seinfeld's when he had a show.

    A sitcom doesn't tell people what to do, buy, read, watch or wear. At least, not directly.

    From this MSNBC article :
    Oprah's audience is predominantly female, white, and over the age of 55. Nationally 7.4 million people watch Oprah daily -- about 2.6% of American households. Four percent of American women (about 5.7 million) watch her daily, compared with 1.2% of men (1.7 million people). Overall, 2% of all 18- to 49-year-olds watch Oprah.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,196
    edited July 2008
    Man, why y'all gotta be knockin' Oprah? She's rich, powerful, generous and a nice woman as far as I can tell. She's got a HUGE following as well. She hasn't done anything but good things for people everytime I have heard news about her or happened to watch her show.

    She won me over as an actress in the movie........I think it was "The Color Purple" or something like that. I like her, though I have not watched a show in probably four or five years.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,196
    edited July 2008
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    Maybe Polk Audio can demo some speakers on her show? :D
    I foresee sales through the frickin' ROOF!!! :eek:
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited July 2008
    treitz3 wrote: »
    Man, why y'all gotta be knockin' Oprah?

    Not knocking Oprah at all. In fact, I would like to be as powerful as she is....think of all the women who would listen to me. >>Evil laugh<<
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2008
    Early B. wrote: »
    The moment Oprah endorsed Obama, Hillary didn't stand a chance. So yeah, she's got power -- enough to get presidents elected.


    That's when I lost the respect I did have for her.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited July 2008
    Unless I'm missing something, people CAN have views that differ from you and still be categorized as "a good person" instead of a "piece of **** from which you wouldn't take water if you were in the desert" type of person.......but that's just me..........
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2008
    brettw22 wrote: »
    Unless I'm missing something, people CAN have views that differ from you and still be categorized as "a good person" instead of a "piece of **** from which you wouldn't take water if you were in the desert" type of person.......but that's just me..........


    You suck!!;):p

    I'd take her water, but I'd at least want a Pontiac G6 for my effort.:D
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  • Music Joe
    Music Joe Posts: 459
    edited July 2008
    Roger Ebert's date with Oprah

    Well it was a push in the right direction :)
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited July 2008
    Why is Oprah so powerful?

    Mass x Velocity = Momentum
    -Ignorance is strength -
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited July 2008
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    Maybe Polk Audio can demo some speakers on her show? :D

    How big is her daily audience? Can't possibly be bigger than, for example, Jerry Seinfeld's when he had a show.

    14 million
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2008
    brettw22 wrote: »
    Unless I'm missing something, people CAN have views that differ from you and still be categorized as "a good person" instead of a "piece of **** from which you wouldn't take water if you were in the desert" type of person.......but that's just me..........


    An Opra supporter, who woulda thought... To me she seems like a person who makes up her own mind and then ships it out on the air. Should everyone blindly follow her lead, probably not. Should they take her lead and try to figure out why she looks towards the direction she does? Yes.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited July 2008
    The Obama endorsement cost her $millions and her audience. Her predominantly female audiance left in droves and subscriptions to her magazine were cancelled at a rate never seen before. Advertising rates for her show took a dive. Ellen DeGeneres (spelling?) is the benefactor as her show is now on top in the ratings and advertising rates. Her spin doctors have been pretty good at information control, but you'll see tidbits in the advertising and publishing industry trade rags. I also know some people that helped manage the magazine circ and database, and they've been in disaster control.

    With all that said, give her the respect she should have for what she had built and done. Not many people can build up the kind of loyalty she had from her viewers, and she'll most likely find a way to get back on top.
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  • JohnLocke88
    JohnLocke88 Posts: 1,150
    edited July 2008
    You're getting a coo coo clock; and YOU'RE getting a coo coo clock! (Anyone???)
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited July 2008
    JohnLocke88 wrote: »
    You're getting a coo coo clock; and YOU'RE getting a coo coo clock! (Anyone???)

    I get it.
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  • joeparaski
    joeparaski Posts: 1,865
    edited July 2008
    Many years ago, I was in a waiting room and the Oprah show was on (I had heard about the show bet never saw it). On that particular segment the discussion was "which way do you place your roll of toilet paper...to roll on the outside or on the inside?" (I kid you not!).....I never watched a show after that.

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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited July 2008
    The power doesn't come from ratings or numbers, it is the fact that she owns every piece of every thing she touches. She owns the production company, total rights to syndication, the studio building, the publishing co., the mag revenues, etc.

    Few people in any type of business have the % of cut that "O" does. In rock and roll, Bon Jovi is the same way, you just don't hear of too many people with total creative, and financial control over their lives.
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  • schwarcw
    schwarcw Posts: 7,341
    edited July 2008
    She's powerful because people allow her to be. If people ignored her show, her magazine, her books, etc. she would become irrelavent. I have nothing against the woman, I am not a fan of her TV show. Much of it is kind of boring for my taste. Day time TV in general is pretty lame. Soap operas, Judge Judy, I don't find any of it entertaining.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2008
    Don't forget, she gave Dr. Phil his start. That alone should warrant some flames her way.
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  • fossy
    fossy Posts: 1,378
    edited July 2008
    Danny Tse wrote: »
    Maybe Polk Audio can demo some speakers on her show? :D

    yea -- maybe the older line up of those beloved sda's -- maybe she has the power to convince Polk to bring um back into production :D:D

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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,840
    edited July 2008
    SKsolutions wrote: »
    Why is Oprah so powerful?

    Mass x Velocity = Momentum


    Ooooh, get out the burn ointment. :)


    I don't have a problem with Oprah. I do have a problem with the yodelling syncophants in her TV audience, though.

    From my extremely skewed viewpoint, most of these suburban white women appear to be thrilled to death that they actually get to see .... now get ready for this, don't be shocked .... a real, live black person !!.

    In the flesh !!

    Yes, after the show, they can march back to their SUV's with real street cred'. They're now one with the 'hood. They're down with the brown.

    They go home, all pumped up, and probably have the wildest conjugal relations they've ever had with their husbands that night, just like their sistahs in the hood ...... with .... THE LIGHTS ON !! :eek::eek::eek:
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2008
    Dude
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited July 2008
    Mr. Blue, working the white guilt angle are we? LOL

    she's powerful because however she did it, she's got an EXTREMELY loyal audience. the number almost doesnt matter, they do whatever Oprah says in complete lockstep with her wishes (be it books or presidential candidates).

    anyone that has that influence over so many people is gonna have the money and power follow,


    Trietz, I agree, she did do a helluva job in the color purple. she is a pretty good actor
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  • jakelm
    jakelm Posts: 4,081
    edited July 2008
    Hasn't she been on the air for like 20 something years?
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited July 2008
    Thank you T3 & Brett.

    Oprah has made her way to the top with her own hard work & sweat. She has tons of money, power & influence & uses it to try and inform, educate, & help other people.

    And I doubt any of you jealous bozo's will ever do anything as meaningful or accomplish a quarter of what she has done for herself or anyone else.
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