Jack Osbourne has opened up about why Osbourne Media Home was shut down after only some months of operation.
Based on the web site’s official About web page, Osbourne Media Home has been described as “your multimedia hub for every part Osbourne” and “serves as a portal to a variety of content material, together with authentic sequence, each basic and modern, 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 character 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 explanation Osbourne Media shut down, it’s not a easy reply; it’s a really long-winded reply, however I’m gonna try 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 “wonderful 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.”
Nevertheless, 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, not less than 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 all the time labored in tv, both in entrance of the digicam 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 sort of post-COVID shift has actually been affected not solely with me, however by way of your complete business. Content material is simply altering. And so I wished to vary with it. And I believed creating some sort 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 workforce, we sort 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 might 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 ultimately led them to hit a wall.
He defined that each Sharon and Ozzy “Had been, like, ‘Hey, pay attention, we don’t wanna maintain 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 sort 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 call that was made that until we sort of figured it out by August that we have been gonna must hit the pause button on Osbourne Media Home, and that’s what occurred.”
In different information, Ozzy not too long ago recalled his disdain for the Christmas interval and opened up concerning the time that he drank “28 gallons” of alcohol to get by way of it.
Elsewhere, Ozzy’s Black Sabbath bandmate Geezer Butler not too long ago shared that the Prince Of Darkness has plans for the band to get collectively for one closing present.
Rumours about the potential of a one-off reunion present from the band have been swirling in latest months, notably since Osbourne shared that he would “soar on the probability” to play a closing Black Sabbath present with co-founding drummer Invoice Ward.
