Oprah’s network benefits from Armstrong confession

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This photo received on January 15, 2013, courtesy of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, shows Oprah Winfrey’s exclusive interview with Lance Armstrong. AFP/Harpo Studios/George Burns

It was the interview to get: Lance Armstrong, disgraced cyclist, set to talk about doping for the first time.  The coup exclusive went to Oprah Winfrey, who taped the two and a half hour interview Monday.  It’s set to air in two parts beginning Thursday.  58 year old Winfrey dominated US daytime television from 1986 to 2011.  Since the host of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” set up her OWN cable and satellite channel, it’s been an uphill battle.  “This is a huge ‘get’ for Oprah” since “OWN is not yet part of the (media) mainstream,” celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley told AFP. Insider reports say Armstrong admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs in the interview.

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