"I feel embraced by the camera. Like I'm doing exactly what I should be doing."
__________________ -Oprah Winfrey
__________________ -Oprah Winfrey
Media Career
Winfrey on the first national broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986.
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Oprah_Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey has had a very extensive media career throughout the course of her life. She has a published magazine line called "O: The Oprah Magazine" and "O at Home." "O: The Oprah Magazine" has been coming out every two months since May of 2000. Oprah was also the host of her own talk show called, "The Oprah Winfrey Show." For 25 seasons it was on television, first airing in September of 1986 and recently ended this past September. However, fame didn't come easy for Oprah, she didn't first begin with her own show, she really worked hard to get where she is now.
At the very beginning, Oprah first worked for the local radio station WVOL in Nashville, when her mother shipped her off to live with her father. She was hired there part time to do the news after attracting the attention of the station by winning the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. Following her gift in media, Oprah then went on to anchoring the news at Nashville's WLAC-TV, where she became the first black female anchor. This was followed by her move to Baltimore in 1976 to co-anchor the six o'clock news on WJZ-TV. Oprah then joined Richard Sher as co-host on WJZ's local talk show People Are Talking, first airing on August 14, 1978. Oprah aslo hosted the local version of Dialing for Dollars there as well.
Switching her gears, Winfrey moved to Chicago in 1983 to host AM Chicago for WLS-TV. The first episode aired on January 2, 1984. Not long after, Oprah had the low-rated half-hour show overtaking all other talk shows, landing the highest rated talk show. However on September 8, 1986, AM Chicago, was renamed "The Winfrey Show". The start of her new show, expanded to a full hour and nationally broadcasted, brought in over double the audience expected. In the show's early years, it got quite a lot of publicity, being classified as a tabliod talk show. The number of special guests that arrived on her show caused quite an attraction. Oprah had multiple celebrity interviews on her show as well, including the one and only Michael Jackson as well as David Letterman.
At the very beginning, Oprah first worked for the local radio station WVOL in Nashville, when her mother shipped her off to live with her father. She was hired there part time to do the news after attracting the attention of the station by winning the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. Following her gift in media, Oprah then went on to anchoring the news at Nashville's WLAC-TV, where she became the first black female anchor. This was followed by her move to Baltimore in 1976 to co-anchor the six o'clock news on WJZ-TV. Oprah then joined Richard Sher as co-host on WJZ's local talk show People Are Talking, first airing on August 14, 1978. Oprah aslo hosted the local version of Dialing for Dollars there as well.
Switching her gears, Winfrey moved to Chicago in 1983 to host AM Chicago for WLS-TV. The first episode aired on January 2, 1984. Not long after, Oprah had the low-rated half-hour show overtaking all other talk shows, landing the highest rated talk show. However on September 8, 1986, AM Chicago, was renamed "The Winfrey Show". The start of her new show, expanded to a full hour and nationally broadcasted, brought in over double the audience expected. In the show's early years, it got quite a lot of publicity, being classified as a tabliod talk show. The number of special guests that arrived on her show caused quite an attraction. Oprah had multiple celebrity interviews on her show as well, including the one and only Michael Jackson as well as David Letterman.
Besides her work with television Oprah Winfrey had also co-authored a total of five books. Her audience is also obsessed with her two magazine lines the "O: The Oprah Magazine" and "O At Home". She doesn't stop there. Oprah also made her own website, Oprah.com, to provide resources relating to her shows, books and book club, magazines, and her public charity. On average Oprah.com recieves over 70 million page views, more than six million users, and approximately 20,000 e-mails each month. Oprah has also gone viral on the radio. After signing a three year, $55 million contract with XM Satellite Radio Oprah began broadcasting her own radio channel called Oprah Radio, on February 9, 2006. The show broadcasts 24/7 on XM Radio Channel 156. Not only that, Oprah also confounded the cable television network for women, Oxygen. Winfrey is also the president of Harpo Productions.
Since the very beginning of her carreer, Oprah Winfrey has done it all. Television, radio, magazines, books, you name it, she did it. As sad as it is she decided that after 25 years of hosting the hit show The Oprah Winfrey Show, it was time to come to an end. The series finale of the show aired on May 25, 2011, and officially ended this past September. But for all those left teary-eyed for her departure, she has a surprise. Since the end of her beloved talk show, she has been starting the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) OWN is a network on cable television devoted to conecting people to themselves and to the world in a good and self-dicovering way.
We have not yet seen the last of Oprah Winfrey!
Since the very beginning of her carreer, Oprah Winfrey has done it all. Television, radio, magazines, books, you name it, she did it. As sad as it is she decided that after 25 years of hosting the hit show The Oprah Winfrey Show, it was time to come to an end. The series finale of the show aired on May 25, 2011, and officially ended this past September. But for all those left teary-eyed for her departure, she has a surprise. Since the end of her beloved talk show, she has been starting the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) OWN is a network on cable television devoted to conecting people to themselves and to the world in a good and self-dicovering way.
We have not yet seen the last of Oprah Winfrey!
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