The Oprah Winfrey Network is a new venture between Oprah Winfrey and the Discovery Communications to establish new media for Oprah Winfrey's show on cable TV dedicated to personal growth, self discovery, and physical health. She announced that she and the Discovery group are going to launch this effort in 2009, and she will have both radio and television shows that promote what the Oprah Winfrey Show does best, ways to live a better life through self discovery and self improvement. The Oprah Winfrey Network will broadcast shows whose content will be approved by Oprah herself, and these channels promise to be as high quality as her show and website are.

The deal between the Oprah Winfrey Network and Discovery is a cash transaction, and each company owns 50% of the network. It should be a cash cow for both of them, since Oprah is one of the strongest voices in media alive today. It's lucky for us that she is making more material available to us, since most all of her work is inspirational at one level or another.