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Jan 15 2008 12:00am EDT

Late Breaks: Oprah TV, Kooky Katie, more

-Oprah Winfrey is getting her own cable channel. She'll partner with Discovery Communications. [TV Decoder]

-PlanetOut has hired Allen & Co. to find it a buyer. [Gay News Watch via Queerty]

-Watch Katie Couric getting a little too loose before the camera rolls. [My Damn Channel]

-Pro-life groups are angry that Vogue turned a woman's account of her partial-birth abortion into an occasion for a fashion shoot. [Folio]

-Blender appears to have broken American Society of Magazine Editors rules on sponsorship with its "Rock & Roll User's Guide." Guess they'll just have to forfeit all those National Magazine Awards they never win. [Folio]. □


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