{"id":5073,"date":"2009-11-17T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2025-06-05T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:35:54","slug":"oprahs-producers-blog-drop-clues-about-what-they-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/oprahs-producers-blog-drop-clues-about-what-they-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah&#8217;s producers blog &amp; drop clues about what they like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you&#8217;re dying to get onto Oprah, stop sending unsolicited books, press kits and other junk.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, spend some time reading the blog posts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/oprahshow\/Oprah-Show-Producer-Facebook-Blogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the\u00a0show&#8217;s 14 producers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they blog. Is it OK to contact them? You bet! Check out the invitation:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5078 aligncenter\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;border: black 1px solid\" title=\"oprahblog copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/oprahblog-copy.jpg\" alt=\"oprahblog copy\" width=\"495\" height=\"493\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you read just one week&#8217;s worth of posts from producer &#8220;Caroline,&#8221; the first producer on this list, you&#8217;d know that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She likes mint chip ice cream.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>She loves kittens.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>She had a really tough week.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why does knowing that help? Because smart Publicity Hounds can weave\u00a0information about those topics into their pitches. They can also take the time to comment several week&#8217;s BEFORE they pitch. That shows the producers that you care about what they write.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be disappointed to learn that many of the producers haven&#8217;t blogged since the summer. But if you take the time to read what they HAVE posted, you&#8217;ll be a lot farther ahead than other people who are far too busy to do this kind of important research. I was surprised to see a skimpy number of comments at most posts.\u00a0That tells me that people might not know about the blogs, or they read them but are too\u00a0lazy to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Harrow, who I interviewed for tips on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How to Get Booked on Oprah,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0says the best pitches are those that fall within several categories that can be considered Oprah&#8217;s hot-button topics.\u00a0Reading the producers&#8217; blog posts will help you identify those topics.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re dying to get onto Oprah, stop sending unsolicited books, press kits and other junk. Instead, spend some time reading the blog posts from the\u00a0show&#8217;s 14 producers. Yes, they blog. Is it OK to contact them? You bet! Check out the invitation: If you read just one week&#8217;s worth of posts from producer &#8220;Caroline,&#8221;\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/tv-radio\/oprahs-producers-blog-drop-clues-about-what-they-like\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":2,"wds_primary_category":609,"footnotes":""},"categories":[609],"tags":[2,29,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-5073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tv-radio","7":"tag-blogging","8":"tag-media-relations","9":"tag-pitching","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42014,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/42014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}