Oprah’s Next Act
(Fortune) — Oprah Winfrey was headed into her “la-di-da years” — her term for semiretirement — when David Zaslav came along and wrecked her grand plan. The queen of TV talk had never met the CEO of Discovery Communications until he arrived at her Chicago office in April 2007 with a proposition. “OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network,” Zaslav said, pitching the notion that they create a cable TV network together. “I don’t want your money,” he told her. “I want you.”
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