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Winfrey on the first national broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986.
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The Oprah Winfrey Show is hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey which aims to positively inspire its viewers.
Winfrey recently made a deal to extend her show until the 2010 - 2011 season, by which time it will have been on the air for 25 years.
Oprah’s Angels was founded by Oprah in 1998 in an effort to encourage people around the world to make a difference through philanthropy.
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  African Americans - Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host, Actress, Broadcasting Executive
Oprah Winfrey revolutionized the talk show market with her unique and natural style and rose to become the host of the most watched daytime show on television, which boasts 22 million viewers daily (three-fourths of whom are women).
Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January 29, 1954, on a farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Winfrey has made generous contributions to charitable organizations and institutions such as Morehouse College, the Harold Washington Library, the United Negro College Fund, and Tennessee State University, and in February of 2000 she was honored by Coretta Scott King at the Salute to Greatness Awards dinner at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
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 Oprah Winfrey - MSN Encarta
Oprah Winfrey, born in 1954, American talk-show host and actor, whose nationally syndicated program became one of the most popular on television and won numerous Emmy Awards.
One of her show’s most popular segments is “Oprah’s Book Club.” Beginning in 1996 this book discussion has aired several times a year, each time focused on a work chosen by Winfrey.
Winfrey’s role as Sofia in The Color Purple (1985; adapted from the book by Alice Walker) won her a 1986 Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress.
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 The Oprah Winfrey show
Oprah's talk show helps people all over the world cope with daily problems and issues in their lives.
Her show handles everything including marriages, controversy in the world to controversy in the home, terroism in the world, mystery cases, and entertainment.
The Oprah Winfrey Show is not just another tabloid TV show but it's someone real, talking about real life experiences and is NOT afraid to say what she wants.
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show at AllExperts
One of the show's features in recent years has been the "Wildest Dreams" tour, which fulfills the dreams of many deserving people reported to her producers by friends and family, be the dream a new house, an encounter with a favourite performer, or a guest role on a popular TV show.
Winfrey credited him for her victory in that case and soon after, he made weekly appearances on her show, tackling human issue topics such as weight loss, financial planning and errant children.
Winfrey stated during an interview with WLS-TV that she wants the show to remain at 9:00am in Chicago because it is the Chicago 9:00 morning audience that made the show a success that got it launched in national syndication.
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Oprah Winfrey's rise to fame is a tale at once tragic and inspiring.
Winfrey was a precocious child who asked her kindergarten teacher to advance her to the first grade; Winfrey also skipped the second grade.
When she was 14, Winfrey went to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee, and it was there that her life was put back on track.
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 Oprah Winfrey Biography
Oprah Winfrey's career in the media industry began as a news anchor and reporter for a television station in Nashville (although she also worked in radio during high school as a newscaster).
Winfrey's business and personal interests are wide ranging and she has managed to accomplish success in several areas.
Winfrey continues to influence and inspire people worldwide with her example of overcoming great odds to achieve great success financially, spiritually and socially.
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 Winfrey, Oprah
Oprah Winfrey, known primarily as the nationally and internationally syndicated American talk show host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, has successfully charted and navigated a career that has built on the television industry as a form of public therapy.
One of the key features of Oprah Winfrey's television persona is that her own private life has been an essential element of her talk-show format of public therapy.
Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1954 and was raised solely by her paternal grandmother for her first six years on a rural pig farm.
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show [TV Series] | Plot | MTV Movies
The so-called "experts" laid the blame for this on Oprah, citing such "faults" as her plumpness, her comparatively lack of glamour, her reluctance to act deferential toward her male co-host, and the fact that she was fl and a woman.
Almost instantly, viewers were charmed by Oprah's unpretentious matter-of-fact approach to controversial issues and her remarkable ability to come off as "one of the crowd" -- a honest, compassionate human being in a sea of plastic, superficial talkmeisters.
In the early months of the national run, some criticism was leveled at Oprah for her alleged "sensationalism" in choosing subject matter for her program, criticism that clearly had some effect on the host, who began veering away from the purely exploitational and covering topics with which everyone in the audience could empathize.
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 Oprah Winfrey | Talk Show Host, Actress, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist
Oprah Winfrey is reported to be the first African-American woman to become a billionaire.
Her parents were unwed teenagers; her father, Vernon Winfrey, was in the military and her mother, Vernita Lee, was a maid.
In 1987, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation was set up "to support the education and empowerment of women, children and families in the United States and around the world."
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 Press: Oprah After the Show: Show Bios: Oprah Winfrey
It was Oprah's first undertaking as magazine founder and editorial director and ultimately another success, as the magazine is credited as being the most successful magazine launch in recent history and currently has a circulation of 2.6 million readers each month.
Through her private charity, The Oprah Winfrey Foundation, she has awarded hundreds of grants to organizations that support the education and empowerment of women, children and families in the United States and around the world.
Oprah's commitment to children also led her to initiate the National Child Protection Act in 1991, when she testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to establish a national database of convicted child abusers.
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 Oprah Winfrey Biography -- Academy of Achievement
Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey was reared by her grandmother on a farm where she "began her broadcasting career" by learning to read aloud and perform recitations at the age of three.
Oprah Winfrey's broadcasting career began at age 17, when she was hired by WVOL radio in Nashville, and two years later signed on with WTVF-TV in Nashville as a reporter/anchor.
Oprah Winfrey was named one of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century by Time magazine, and in 1998 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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 Oprah Winfrey
Winfrey enters Sheila’s spiritual vacuum and attempts to do her a favor by filling the void with her own set of rather questionable prophets.
Oprah Winfrey, all of her New Age guests, and the publishing industry that supports them are savvy enough to know that, human nature being what it is, New Age adherents will never be done; they will never be healed.
Winfrey will continue to try to be helpful to the Sheilas of the world, who limp along in their spiritual and emotional lives; but, in following the lead of Winfrey’s gurus, the Sheilas of the world will never do more than limp.
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 Buy.com - Oprah Winfrey Show (20th Anniversary Collection) : DVD : Oprah Winfrey : Joseph C. Terry : Paramount
Oprah Winfrey will donate 100% of Harpo's profits from the sale of this DVD Collection to Oprah's Angel Network, a charitable foundation dedicated to helping educate and advance women and children around the world.
When Oprah Winfrey launched her Chicago-based television talk show in 1986, little did the American public know that the formerly impoverished Mississippi native would go on to become a hugely successful, one-woman entertainment industry with the power to shape the American cultural landscape.
Oprah herself introduces the clips and shares her thoughts on favorite segments, guests, and surprises, including her famous weight-loss episode, her Christmas Kindness trip to South Africa, and the episode in which every audience member received a new car.
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Oprah made her acting debut in 1985 as "Sofia" in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, and received both an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination for her efforts.
Oprah was joined by her friend Gayle King, and millions of women viewing across the country, to experience first hand the way the Web will change women's lives.
Oprah's commitments extend to her initiation of the National Child Protection Act in 1991; she testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to establish a national database of convicted child abusers and on December 20, 1993, President Clinton signed the national "Oprah Bill" into law.
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 Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was born poor and fl in Mississippi in 1954, when poor and fl meant no flush toilets, no shoes, and no real chance to get ahead in the world.
Winfrey has spoken of being sexually abused as a child, and stated publicly that she'll never have children of her own.
Winfrey has toyed with retirement, announcing several years in advance that her show would end in 2000, and then 2006, and then 2008...
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show
Oprah began her career in broadcasting at the age of 19 when she became the youngest and the first African-American woman ever to anchor the news at Nashville's WTVF-TV.
Oprah's commitment to empowering women and children is reflected through her charitable and philanthropic contributions.
Oprah is using her philanthropic efforts to establish educational scholarship for hundreds of students in schools and universities throughout the country, including 100 men at Morehouse University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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 ~ "The Oprah Winfrey Show" ~
Her show has an estimated 14 million viewers each day in the United States.
Sadly, Oprah decided to cancel her book club in April because she felt it was getting harder to find top-quality novels each month.
Her show is among the highest-rated talk-shows, and has earned 31 Emmy Awards.
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It was a watershed Winfrey moment, showing herself as not only a talk-show host with whom you don't want to mess, but also someone who is fully aware of the power of her own image.
Winfrey was applauded by many for her public mea culpa and for getting Frey to do the same, but her righteous demand for justice also evoked criticism.
Schlussel says Winfrey followers "are incredibly gullible, bandwagon-jumping trend-slaves." Winfrey, she says, "acts as if her show has 'evolved,' but in fact, she still has the salacious sex and deviance stories, with a psychologist in the audience to make it seem highbrow and give it the kosher seal of approval.
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 'The Oprah Winfrey Show': Trivia
In 1984, Oprah Winfrey left the local talk show circuit in Baltimore and moved to the Windy City to host WLS-TV's morning talk show, AM Chicago.
The show is seen by an estimated 49 million viewers viewers a week in the United States.
Oprah considers Adam Sandler one her most surprising guests of all time…"I thought he'd be a joke a minute.
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 The Oprah Winfrey Show - TV Wiki
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American nationally syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey and is the highest rated talk show in American television history.
It is the longest running daytime television talk show in the United States, with 20 seasons - currently in its 21st season - and thousands of episodes since it debuted on September 8, 1986.
Oprah, as it is often referred to, has been included in Time magazine's shortlist of the best television series of the twentieth century in 1998, and it made the top 50 of TV Guide's countdown of the greatest shows of all time [1] in 2002.
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The former headmistress of Oprah Winfrey's school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa says she was unaware of allegations that a dormitory matron sexually abused students.
Oprah Winfrey presents "The Color Purple: The Musical about Love" is coming to Detroit for a two-week engagement May 20 through June 1 at the Fox Theatre.
Behind Oprah Winfrey's anger, shock and tears over the scandal at her girls' academy is her personal mission: to hunt down child molesters and put them...
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 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986)
At the time, her show was set up like Phil Donahue's, where she would have different topics, and go out into the audience to get their opinions on whatever the topic was.
Oprah has always had a style about her that has not been matched by any other talk show hosts, back then and now.
Her show changed in the mid '90s to be more of a hybrid of the classic talk shows like "The Dinah Shore Show", and "Merv Griffin", but with the flare of Oprah thrown in for good measure.
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 130 Osmond family members appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Television
George Osmond died this week, but 130 members of his family filmed an episode of ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'' anyway because they thought the family patriarch would have wanted it that way.
George Osmond planned to travel to Chicago to tape the show before he died Tuesday at age 90 at his home in Provo, Utah, Marie Osmond told Winfrey in a transcript provided by Harpo Productions.
Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay Osmond first became famous as The Osmond Brothers, a barbershop quartet singing at Disneyland and on ''The Andy Williams Show.'' Donny Osmond joined the group at age 6 and later hosted ''The Donny and Marie Show'' with his sister.
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 Oprah & Friends - on XM Satellite Radio
Oprah & Friends will debut in September 2006 and will feature a broad range of original programming from Harpo Radio, Inc. including regular segments hosted by popular personalities from The Oprah Winfrey Show and O, The Oprah Magazine and an exclusive original weekly half-hour reality radio show with Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King.
Oprah & Friends will include regular programming on topics such as current events, self improvement, health, nutrition, fitness and home.
Don't miss another minute of XM Satellite Radio, with more than 170 digital channels of choice from coast to coast: the most commercial-free music channels, premier sports, talk, comedy, children's entertainment and programming and the most advanced traffic and weather information.
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