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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is a world wide famous personality as an anchor for “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. This show is shown across the five continents and seen by her fans very vividly and devotedly. Oprah’s broadcasting career began at the age of 17, when Nashville’s WVOL radio hired her. At 19 she started working as the reporter / anchor with WTVF-TV in Nashville. Later she majored in the Speech Communications and Performing Arts from the Tennessee State University. In 1976, Oprah moved to Baltimore to join WJZ-TV news as a co-anchor.

production responsibilities for “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. Thus, she became the first woman in the history of U.S. to own and produce her own talk show.

consecutive Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Talk / Service Program and Oprah herself won the award of International Radio and Television Society’s “Broadcaster of the Year”. She was the youngest person and only the fifth woman ever to receive the award in its 25 year history.

. Two years later she found that sh In 1988 also “The Oprah Winfrey Show” received its second

Her stars shine bright in the field of the acting when she worked in the films also. Oprah’s ewe inspiring role of Sofia in Steven Spielberg’s film “The Color Purple” made it the entering in the Oscar and Golden Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress. She was widely acclaimed by the critics in her performance in “Native Son”, a movie based on the classic of Richard Wright’s Classic 1940 novel.

In the year 1986 the Oprah passion for movie reaches the zenith and she opened her film production company named HARPO Production Inc. Today her company is the forerunner in the television and film production. HARPO Entertainment Group in the year 1988 acquired the ownership and all

Since, then there has been no stopping for the HARPO Production and it has entered into the production of the film, television series and many other entertainment activities in the U.S. Oprah was named as one of the most influential People of the 20^th Century by the Time magazine. In the year 1998 Oprah received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Oprah is an enigma in the U.S. and her influence does matter a lot in the publishing industry. She opened an on-air book club and her book club selections became instant bestsellers. Angel Network was started by Oprah for providing the support to the destitute around the world. This group has been into the extensive work in the U.S. and the Africa.

In the year 2000, this network began presenting a $ 100,000 “Use Your Life Award” to people who are using their lives to improve the lives of others. When Forbes magazine published its list of America’s Billionaires for the year 2003, it disclosed that Oprah Winfrey was the first African-American woman to become a billionaire.

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