Oprah next on Facebook Live
September 8, 2011 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
Oprah next on Facebook Live
Harpo Productions
Facebook Live has already had an A-list roster of guests, including President Obama, former President George W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, actors Vin Diesel and Rainn Wilson, singer Katy Perry and Microsoft’s Bill Gates.
But Facebook’s own online TV show may hit new heights Thursday when Oprah Winfrey, the former Queen of Daytime TV, comes to the Palo Alto social networking company’s headquarters for a live one-hour chat with chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Click HERE to go directly to the site. They’re still looking for questions from the social media audience.
Still, it’s Oprah who might stand to gain from her exposure to Facebook’s audience of 750 million active users worldwide. The TV star and media mogul’s “The Oprah Winfrey Show” ended its long and successful run in May, but ratings for her Oprah Winfrey Network, launched earlier this year, have not taken off.
And while Winfrey has 6.3 million fans to her Facebook page, the Oprah Winfrey Network could use a boost because it only has 866,000 fans.
Winfrey’s appearance on Facebook Live coincides with a private meeting between her and other Silicon Valley leaders at Sandberg’s home. The New York Post has reported that Oprah is seeking some wisdom to help boost traffic to her website, Oprah.com. Traffic has dropped since the show ended.
Jeff Weiner, CEO of the professional social network LinkedIn, is one of the invited guests. Reportedly, so is Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt.
Also we’re told that the meeting will include executives from Harpo, Winfrey’s TV production company, along with Susan Casey, editor-in-chief of “O, The Oprah Magazine,” which is published by The Chronicle’s owner Hearst Corp. Winfrey’s best friend Gayle King, an editor-at-large at the magazine, is also on the list.
| September 07 2011 at 02:00 PM
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