Oprah Winfrey first black female billionaire_Oprah Winfrey, the 1st black female to appear in Forbes' billionaire list, is the greatest multimedia icon.She and her eponymous television program have earned scores of Emmy awards. In 1986, Ms. Winfrey was nominated for an Oscar immediately after her movie debut in "The Color Purple" and two years later she founded Harpo Productions. In the year 2000, she unveiled "O," a top-selling magazine whereby she appears on every cover. She has revived her well known book club, one that guarantees best-seller position for its selections.

In The fall of, 2009, Ms. Winfrey announced that she will end "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2011, so that she can focus on her forth-coming cable television channel, named Own. The announcement caused guessing about how huge her part will be on the network.

Own is but developing programs before its prepared premiere on Jan. 1, 2011. The channel, which has been affected by management shake-ups, will take the place of the Discovery Health Channel in at least 70 million households.

In Apr, 2010 Ms. Winfrey presented the network to advertisers in The big apple, and mentioned she would most likely host a prime-time interview show for the channel named "Oprah's Next Chapter."

Ms. Winfrey will appear in two or three episodes a week, indicating that she will not continue the kind of everyday talk show that she has done for decades. Discovery Communications and Ms. Winfrey's Harpo Productions, the two backers, hope that by placing Ms. Winfrey in prime time, she will appeal to larger audiences and command premium costs from advertisers.
Throughout her decades as the billionaire queen of day time television, Ms. Winfrey experienced many highlights, including a display in 1988 when she appeared right after losing sixty seven pounds, a show in 2005 when the actor Tom Cruise reported his adore for the actress Katie Holmes by leaping all over Ms. Winfrey's couch, and one more show that year when she sent her crowd members into a shouting frenzy by providing them almost all no cost cars.

Ms. Winfrey's show was at the height of its popularity when she performed exactly what was at the time named the most-watched interview of all time with the performer Michael Jackson. That prime-time special in 1993 had been seen by 62 million people in the United States and nearly 100 million folks globally.

The link in all Ms. Winfrey's endeavors is her motivation to open her personalized life for the public. Born on Jan. twenty nine, 1954, in Kosclusko, Miss., Ms. Winfrey overcame childhood sexual abuse, remarkably toppled Phil Donahue as the top-rated daytime talk-show host and saw her up-and-down weight - as well as her personal relationships - become the staple of a great number of shows (and tabloid fodder) "Oprah's Big Give," which opened in March '08, will be the most latest instance of her philanthropy. In '07, she opened up a multimillion-dollar school for young ladies in South Africa.

Ms. Winfrey will be the narrator of "Life," an 11-part nature documentary that started out broadcasting on Discovery within the spring of '10, though most agreed the real stars are the camera operators who captured the basically astounding footage, heading to rain forests, deserts and just about each and every other sort of environment to accomplish it.

Ms. Winfrey's role on cable television is expected being limited until her widely distributed show ends. In Feb ., 2010, the channel introduced that it would generate a weekly behind-the-scenes series about her last syndicated season.


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