Oprah Winfrey’s OWN struggling to pull in viewers

London, March 1 – Oprah Winfrey’s TV channel, OWN, is reportedly struggling to pull in the viewers. 

According to the New York Times, figures from Nielsen show ratings are down 10 per cent on Discovery Health – the channel OWN has replaced, reports the Daily Mail. 

Just 135,000 are viewing Winfrey’s channel at any one time and only 45,000 of these are the target demographic of women aged 25 to 54.

However, the TV host and her partner Discovery Communications have told sceptics to be patient especially because she only has a minimal presence on the channel until The Oprah Winfrey Show – currently on ABC – ends its run in September.

At the moment OWN is relying on shows like ‘Our America’, a series of documentaries hosted by Lisa Ling.

Christina Norman, chief executive of OWN, said the channel is still aiming to accumulate 50 to 60million viewers each month. It currently has 42million.

She said viewers expected a lot of original programming, and aren’t tuning in for repeats.

Winfrey has also reiterated this message. (ANI)

Arquette thought Cox was cheating on him

Actor-director David Arquette has revealed that he suspected that his estranged wife Courteney Cox was having an affair. 

 "There were tabloid stories coming out about her and someone on her show having, you know, an affair," Arquette told Oprah Winfrey on her talk show.

"I thought she was having an affair with someone. Nobody would've said something like that if she weren't." (He, however, now says he knows those stories weren't "true".)

Arquette says Cox went into depression after hinting the marriage was over and that the news hit him hard as well.

"She came down really depressed one day, and was like 'I'm really just not happy.'. I felt really sort of abandoned at that point. A deal is a deal." (The phrase is engraved on the inside of the couple's wedding bands, which they exchanged in 1999.)

"I was angry with...the dynamic of our relationship. I was angry with my wife," said the star, who has struggled with addiction.

Arquette also revealed that he was upset with Cox earning more money than him. The actress made $1 million per episode in the final season of the hit sitcom "Friends", reports usmagazine .

"She was on this incredibly successful show, so she made more money than me. I was sort of always in her shadow. And I'd held all this bitterness," he added.