Oprah headed to the cable universe of hundreds of channels at the zap of a fingertip??

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Nearly one year to the day after Discovery Communications’ top dog said Oprah Winfrey would stop syndicating her talk show in September of 2011 and move it to Discovery’s new Oprah Winfrey Network, a blog report saying Oprah will stop syndicating her talk show in September of 2011 and move it to OWN gave The Reporters Who Cover Television the vapors.

“She has not made a decision yet,” Winfrey’s Harpo Productions said Thursday in a stern e-mail to hyperventilating reporters.

“As she has previously stated, she’ll be making an announcement before the end of the year.”

That statement is virtually identical to the scolding Harpo issued within hours of Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslov’s crack about Oprah moving her talkshow to OWN — a comment he made at his company’s first earnings call as a public company back in early November of ‘08.

Back then Harpo said, patronizingly, that “while David Zaslov’s comment are true that Oprah’s current contract to produce ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ will expire in 2011, she has not made a final decision as to whether she will continue her show in syndication beyond that.”

From which we learned Oprah really does not like men to make her announcements for her.

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