7 January 2009 1:38 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news
There's one positive thing that can be said about Oprah Winfrey's 48-pound weight gain: it's good for ratings. Monday's Oprah show in which she talked about packing on the pounds and what she plans to do about it averaged a 5.7 rating and a 13 share, her third-best numbers of the season. according to CBS Television Distribution. (Although the talk show airs mostly on ABC television stations, it is distributed by CBS's syndication unit, which acquired the original distributor, King World.) Winfrey's latest weight battle is also featured in her magazine 0, which reportedly has seen a 10 percent slide in circulation during the past year.
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