"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" will stay on stations owned and operated by NBC for the next four years, the show's distributor said late Wednesday. The move ends speculation that Ms. DeGeneres would
replace Oprah Winfrey on stations owned by ABC.
DeGeneres' 7-year-old show is, next to "The Oprah Winfrey Show," the most popular syndicated show. "Winfrey" goes off air in September
2011. It's why NBCU locked up "Ellen" early; her contract was set to expire next year. Winfrey co-owns a forthcoming cable channel, OWN, with Discovery Communications.
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