• Wall Street Journal, Monday, April 2, 2012 3:26 PM

Oprah Winfrey's cable channel, OWN, signed a distribution deal with Comcast Corp. that raised the number of subscribers who can watch OWN on the cable operator, and also assured that Comcast will begin paying carriage fees for the channel starting in 2013 -- charges it currently does not pay.

This is good news for the struggling network, which "didn't initially earn subscription revenue from its distributors when it went on air early last year, people close to the channel said," writes Sam Schechner and Christopher S. Stewart.

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