Jack Osbourne explains why Osbourne Media Home shut down

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 all the pieces Osbourne” and “serves as a portal to a variety of content material, together with unique sequence, each traditional and up to date, podcasts, merchandise, household information, subscription bins, 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 corresponding 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 they’d 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 quick 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 means to create precisely what we wished after which launch it to our followers the best way we wished it, how we wished it.”

Nonetheless, he defined that “The massive factor is simply that — we had been studying how to do that.”

He continued: “I began Osbourne Media Home on a simply an concept. I noticed the best way media was going, how TV was drying up — it’s drying up. I noticed that artistic content material actually, no less than for my part, is the best way ahead for individuals 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 form of post-COVID shift has actually been affected not solely with me, however via all the trade. Content material is simply altering. And so I wished to vary with it. And I believed creating some form of media firm the place we had 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 form 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 they’d “bit off greater than we may chew.” Jack stated that they had been studying from their errors and “counting on data from different individuals 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 “Have been, like, ‘Hey, pay attention, we don’t wanna preserve 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 primarily based off of their work schedules, Ozzy’s well being and “everybody simply form of having life.”

Jack continued: “So, [it was down to] scheduling, the financials of it, and I believe these two issues had been actually weighing on everybody. So there was a call that was made that until we form of figured it out by August that we had 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 concerning the time that he drank “28 gallons” of alcohol to get via 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 closing present.

Rumours about the potential for a one-off reunion present from the band have been swirling in current 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.