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Lance Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, reversing more than a decade of denial.

The cable channel benefited from Lance Armstrong’s confessional interview and a deal to collect subscriber fees from some of the country’s biggest satellite and cable operators.

Oprah Winfrey is used to running the show, whether it was her hit daytime TV program or the fledgling cable channel named for her and which she rules as chairman and chief executive. But this week's Oprah Winfrey Network shakeup, which included a 20 percent staff layoff, thrusts her into a new dynamic: power-sharing with a top executive from the company that's bankrolled OWN with $300 million-plus.

After 25 years on TV, Oprah Winfrey says she's having the time of her life on the Web. The 57-year-old mogul is connecting with viewers through her weekly webcasts, and she says it's "the most fun I've had ever."

“Big, big, big, big, big, big, big mistake!” Winfrey recently told Entertainment Tonight of her boo-boo. “When I look at that show, I think it was one of the biggest ego trips of my life.”

Oprah Winfrey has made it clear that she doesn’t want to see her friends taking part in "Dancing With The Stars" -- even famously telling The Duchess Of York, Sarah Ferguson, "I better not see you on [the show]" But is Oprah trying to sabotage the ratings powerhouse or simply looking after those she loves?

Thanks to the Oprah Winfrey Network, Rosie O’Donnell will be back on television on Oct. 10, airing right before Winfrey’s new “OWN Your Life: The Oprah Class.”

In the meantime, OWN has released the first teaser trailer.

It was a case of good news-bad news for Oprah Winfrey today when the ratings for the heavily hyped Monday edition of her syndicated show as well as last week's ratings for her cable network OWN came in.

Oprah Winfrey's new network is planning new series on two pairs of entertainers with complicated lives: country music stars the Judds and actor Ryan O'Neal and his daughter, Tatum.The OWN network says both shows will appear sometime next year, along with a new makeover show starring Carson Kressley of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

Whether the Queen of all Media will move her chat-fest to her own cable network remains a guessing game.