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Why is the Michel interview is not mentioned as one of her highest rated shows on Oprah's website?

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I just went to Oprah's website because I was curious how her 1993 MJ interview rated in terms of viewership. I was surprised to see that it's not mentioned among the Top 25:

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/25-Most-Watched-Oprah-Show-Episodes/

To me that's really, really hard to believe. I remember how huge it was. I remember how big the hype was. I remember that in Europe, where I live, it was the show that placed Oprah on the map at all. It was the first time I saw Oprah, along with many non-Americans. It was aired all around the world, including my country which did not often air American talk shows at the time.

So how on Earth is it not in the Top 25?

Moreover, I went to the Memorable Guests section, and Michael isn't even mentioned there: http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Memorable-Guests

Unless, it's rates differently somehow and not rated together with the regular show, because it was a special?
 
respect77;3766057 said:
I just went to Oprah's website because I was curious how her 1993 MJ interview rated in terms of viewership. I was surprised to see that it's not mentioned among the Top 25:

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/25-Most-Watched-Oprah-Show-Episodes/

To me that's really, really hard to believe. I remember how huge it was. I remember how big the hype was. I remember that in Europe, where I live, it was the show that placed Oprah on the map at all. It was the first time I saw Oprah, along with many non-Americans. It was aired all around the world, including my country which did not often air American talk shows at the time.

So how on Earth is it not in the Top 25?

Moreover, I went to the Memorable Guests section, and Michael isn't even mentioned there: http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Memorable-Guests

Unless, it's rates differently somehow and not rated together with the regular show, because it was a special?
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In the first link Most Viewed, MJ's interview is no 3:bugeyed
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“The Oprah Winfrey Show” scored upward of 10 million viewers; her biggest, a prime-time interview with Michael Jackson, drew 62 million viewers to ABC in 1993.
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I guess for Oprah 62 million viewers is nothing:D
If Michael's interview wasn't the biggest, what was?

As for most memorable, Oprah should remember the interview that made her.


Anyways, she is losing viewers in big time. Her interview with Lance A drew only 4.3 million viewers.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c...-draws-4-3-million-viewers-to-oprahs-network/
 
Oh, thanks I did not realize it. Thanks. I would have been really surprised if it's not among the most viewed Oprah shows. The second too is related to that: "On the day after the [MJ] interview, The Oprah Show ran a montage of highlights from Oprah's biggest celebrity interviews to date—Bill Cosby, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler, Tom Cruise, Arsenio Hall and more."

And I think on the picture she is in Neverland. So I think that show still enjoyed the "fall-out" from the MJ show the day before.
 
Bubs said:
As for most memorable, Oprah should remember the interview that made her.


Anyways, she is losing viewers in big time. Her interview with Lance A drew only 4.3 million viewers.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c...-draws-4-3-million-viewers-to-oprahs-network/
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Yeah, it's really odd how the media quotes rates sometimes. I read the Armstrong interview did not draw the biggest viewership, that still goes to the show in which Oprah interviewed Whitney's relatives after her death. The number given for that is 3.5 million. 3.2 million was cited for the LA interview in that article. In any case, both are around that range 3-4 million. How can the Whitney show be cited as the most watched when, for example, the Michael interview was watched by 62 million? (And that's only US numbers, I assume.)
 
The Oprah MJ interview had a worldwide audience of over 100 million.

Maybe she's talking only about interviews on her latest shows?
 
respect77 said:
How can the Whitney show be cited as the most watched when, for example, the Michael interview was watched by 62 million? (And that's only US numbers, I assume.)
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I wonder if they mean that Whitney's daughter show was most viewed in Oprah, in her new network channel OWN?
 
respect77 said:
I just went to Oprah's website because I was curious how her 1993 MJ interview rated in terms of viewership. I was surprised to see that it's not mentioned among the Top 25:

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/25-Most-Watched-Oprah-Show-Episodes/
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Bubs said:
In the first link Most Viewed, MJ's interview is no 3:bugeyed
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MJ's interview was by far and away the most viewed show oprah was ever a part of. That list of top 25 was obviously just from her oprah talk show, the mj interview is probably classed as a special. It's telling that the second and third of her most poplular shows over all those decades of her being the top talk show host in usa, are shows connected to THAT interview.

The 3m/4m oprah's getting at the moment for massive interviews is poor because she's on some tiny cable tv channel. Americans clearly aren't that fussed to try and find her on their remotes.
 
Bonnie Blue said:
The 3m/4m oprah's getting at the moment for massive interviews is poor because she's on some tiny cable tv channel. Americans clearly aren't that fussed to try and find her on their remotes.
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Yeah, that should tell her something:)
 
Allthough only 3 or 4 Mio. saw the Amstrong-Interview it brought Oprah wordwide attention. Every serious news-television-show worldwide reported about it.
So in this sense it may be a sucsess for her. I think it was her interview what gets the most attention for the last years.
 
The first part of Lance Armstrong's doping confession to Oprah Winfrey drew about 4.3 million viewers to Winfrey's struggling television network on Thursday night, according to Nielsen ratings.

The number - roughly the same as Good Morning America's daily audience - is good news for OWN, Winfrey's network, but it hardly compares to big interviews from her days of yore, such as the 1993 Michael Jackson that attracted 62 million viewers to ABC.

During her peak in the early 90s, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' drew an average 13 million viewers, according to the New York Times.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-interview-Lance-Armstrong.html#ixzz2IRD1Bhe6
 
I can't stand her and how people just worship her. She hates Michael. I believe just by her actions and I wish his kids never talk to her again. Whatever interview she did on her talk show or her own channel, the one with Michael was her highest ever and made her a bigger star or whatever she is. Sorry for the rant.
 
I googled oprah's interview with Michael, OVER 100 million world wide.
 
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