Oprah to launch new radio channel

Oprah Winfrey

TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey has signed a three-year, US$55 million ($81 million) deal with XM Satellite Radio Holdings to launch a new radio channel in September.

The new channel, Oprah & Friends, will air programming on fitness, health and self-improvement topics with personalities who appear on Winfrey's TV programme, The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as in O, The Oprah Magazine.