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28 published records
“We're gonna work that out as we go along. And then depending on the availability of the author, we are going to do either one or both of an LP episode with the author, discussing the book and a LP zoom discussion, with all of you LPs potentially with the author.”
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“Then she got, I don't know how much more but hundreds of thousands of dollars more with a better agent when it was still just the station.”
- Publisher
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“Harpo is worth a crap ton with Oprah and I think a lot, lot, lot less without her.”
- Publisher
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“I don't know what ultimately happened with that, but there's also going to be Oprah interviews on Apple TV+.”
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“You got Kim, you got Kanye, you got Kylie, Kylie’s got a cosmetics brand, Kim’s now doing a podcast with Spotify. I will talk more about this in Playbook to come.”
- Publisher
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“All these shows—Maury. But I think that was the point was, again to pull forward to influencers and what this would become with YouTube, the Internet, TikTok, and everything.”
- Publisher
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“An interesting thing to think about this is if her reach was 50 million people, you sort of assume 1% or 2% of your fans could be superfans. I think a lot more than one or two percent of her reach were superfans.”
- Publisher
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“I think we saw in the methodology for Forbes, they said they added up all the after-tax profit cash flow to Oprah that they estimate Oprah had gotten from Harpo over the last 20, 30 years.”
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“I think the third piece of the magic is that Oprah didn't get Don Johnson as the guest.”
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“I can’t imagine she regrets that decision one iota. I think a lot of that, though, is just her own ambition.”
- Publisher
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“At this point, it's about harvesting that audience and what you can basically do is see her for a long time and say nope, my show is the only way that I reach people, and then her realizing people will pay me for little pieces of all this stuff and I can carve off Oprah and Friends is a thing, but it's only audio and it's a different type of content.”
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“Let's also be honest here, Oprah, as I think we've hopefully described here, is an exceedingly once-in-a-generation sharp media businesswoman.”
- Publisher
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“Clearly, the back catalog of something like Friends is worth a lot these days. It's a sitcom, not a talk show, but I think a lot of people would like to watch the back catalog of Oprah.”
- Publisher
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“I think the main value driver here is people trusting Oprah and wanted to continue that relationship.”
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“The crazy thing is we'll get into this in a sec, but I think the way Forbes values her wealth is dramatically undervaluing her.”
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“There is the whole diet thing. I think she has the tie-in with Weight Watchers at this point.”
- Publisher
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“The Oprah Winfrey Network, yup, with rebranded Discovery Health and that (I think) kind of saves the network.”
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“In this one, we’re grading how good of a use of $16 million for Oprah to buy out the rights for the show. I don't know if it’s an A or A+.”
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“Cables are starting to become big. I think we talked about this on the ESPN episode.”
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“He's super old-school, Edward Murrow style, like echo the news, and she's Oprah. That could work great but in this case, it doesn't work super great.”
- Publisher
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“The interesting thing about these syndicators, too, that I didn't really realize is since they're getting to participate in the upside of the success, at least the way all their deals tend to start or at least at this time tended to start was either in a rev share or a profit-sharing deal. They would come to you, they would say right now you're only getting to address Baltimore, we think you could play in these 17 markets, we're going to take some cut.”
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“I don't know if it was maybe too parochial to Baltimore or just what, but it doesn't work and the syndication deal gets canceled.”
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“Yeah, let's talk about the channel struggling because what that was is, again playing for the playbook thing, but we talked a lot about this notion of a direct relationship with your audience.”
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“He promoted a super under-represented minority person to take a huge bet and put I don't know how much of his career is on the line but some amount of his credibility, maybe all this credibility on the line.”
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“One is what you talk about with the cars, I just want to label that as a Playbook theme which is for this type of business, for an influencer business, monetizing your product recommendation, kind of like native advertising.”
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“I think Bob Iger might have been running ABC entertainment at this point, so basically forces Bob, if he was, to take it.”
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“The car giveaway was not random. It was part of a series of things that she started where it was like when I have an idea of a thing that I love that I want to give to my audience, like pajamas, for example, we will just give them to the audience because I want them to enjoy it.”
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“Definitely go read that if you want a long deep picture of Oprah Winfrey, or should I say Orpah Gayle Winfrey because that is the child that was born on January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi.”
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