Jack Osbourne has opened up about why Osbourne Media Home was shut down after only some months of operation.
In line with the web site’s official About web page, Osbourne Media Home has been described as “your multimedia hub for every thing Osbourne” and “serves as a portal to a variety of content material, together with authentic sequence, each traditional and up to date, podcasts, merchandise, household information, subscription containers, unique content material, early entry, creator interplay, fan engagement, and a thriving group.”
Osbourne Media Home was launched again in April 2024 and featured programmes comparable to The Osbournes podcast and Ozzy Osbourne and guitarist Billy Morrison’s sequence The Madhouse Chronicles.
Now, in a brand new video shared by Jack – Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s son – on his official YouTube channel, the British-American media persona defined what had occurred with the multimedia hub and all the problems that they had handled which led the group to “pause” the corporate.
“The rationale Osbourne Media shut down, it’s not a easy reply; it’s a really long-winded reply, however I’m gonna attempt to make it as brief and as concise and as straightforward to digest,” he started.
Jack shared that the choice had “nothing to do with our viewers”, explaining that it was an “superb expertise” to have “direct capability to create precisely what we wished after which launch it to our followers the way in which we wished it, how we wished it.”
Nonetheless, he defined that “The large factor is simply that — we have been studying how to do that.”
He continued: “I began Osbourne Media Home on a simply an thought. I noticed the way in which media was going, how TV was drying up — it’s drying up. I noticed that inventive content material actually, at the least in my view, is the way in which ahead for folks like myself. I’m not an actor, I’m not a musician. I’ve at all times labored in tv, both in entrance of the digital camera as expertise, and I take advantage of that phrase loosely, or as a producer. However TV’s altering.
“The cash simply isn’t there anymore. And the type of post-COVID shift has actually been affected not solely with me, however by means of your entire trade. Content material is simply altering. And so I wished to alter with it. And I believed creating some type of media firm the place we have been creating and distributing our personal content material, we had a paywall, we had OsbourneMediaHouse.com —the imaginative and prescient that’s Osbourne Media Home was one thing that myself and my staff, we type of introduced out of nothing. It was self-funded.”
He revealed that the entire household had “put in funds” to get Osbourne Media Home off the bottom and admitted that that they had “bit off greater than we may chew.” Jack stated that they have been studying from their errors and “counting on info from different folks about ‘Okay, how will we develop this? How do we modify the path?’”, which finally led them to hit a wall.
He defined that each Sharon and Ozzy “Have been, like, ‘Hey, hear, we don’t wanna hold financially dumping cash into this as a result of we don’t see this as one thing that is sensible for us proper now’”, with that call being based mostly off of their work schedules, Ozzy’s well being and “everybody simply type of having life.”
Jack continued: “So, [it was down to] scheduling, the financials of it, and I believe these two issues have been actually weighing on everybody. So there was a choice that was made that except we type of figured it out by August that we have been gonna should hit the pause button on Osbourne Media Home, and that’s what occurred.”
In different information, Ozzy lately recalled his disdain for the Christmas interval and opened up in regards to the time that he drank “28 gallons” of alcohol to get by means of it.
Elsewhere, Ozzy’s Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler lately shared that the Prince Of Darkness has plans for the band to get collectively for one remaining present.
Rumours about the opportunity of a one-off reunion present from the band have been swirling in current months, notably since Osbourne shared that he would “leap on the likelihood” to play a remaining Black Sabbath present with co-founding drummer Invoice Ward.
