I watched the Friday episode of Oprah when she announced that her show will close in 2011. The big question now is who's going to replace her time slot. Oprah has a huge following and it will be the biggest challenge for whoever will take her slot to top it or at least close to it.
There are other daytime shows but none of them can equal Oprah's pull. Some shows didn't even last long. Oprah seems to be the only one who has the recipe for success. She has always been genuine and truthful and extremely generous.
Oprah's show has lost 50% of its viewers from 1991-2009 but her recent episodes such as her interview with Whitney Houston and Sarah Palin attracted 7.2 million viewers a day.
Oprah will launch her own network on January 2011 called OWN or The Oprah Winfrey Network which will replace The Discovery Health Channel. Meanwhile, Oprah promised her televiewers on Friday that her coming episodes will "knock our socks off" during the final two years of the most successful daytime talk show in television history.



