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Losses will mount at the Oprah Winfrey OWN network as investment is ramped up, said David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Communications.

Experts and guests seem grounded in reality on Oprah's new cable channel, OWN, which feels like a video women's magazine.You have to love a woman who says she's chosen a "slow roll-out" for her new television network and then promptly goes head-to-head with the Rose Parade to begin it. But that admirable and infuriating mixture of humility and hubris is precisely what has made Oprah Winfrey one of most culturally influential people of her time. Her latest project, the Oprah Winfrey Network (convenient acronym, OWN), debuted Jan.