Success Story of Oprah Winfrey
                     SUCCESS STORY OF 
OPRAH WINFREY
• Who Is Oprah Winfrey? 
 
• Oprah Gail Winfrey was conceived in the rustic town of Kosciusko, 
Mississippi, on January 29, 1954. In 1976, Winfrey moved to Baltimore, 
where she facilitated a hit TV visit appear, People Are Talking. A while 
later, she was enlisted by a Chicago TV station to have her own 
morning appear. 
• She later turned into the host of her own, uncontrollably prominent 
program, The Oprah Winfrey Show, which circulated for 25 seasons, 
from 1986 to 2011. That equivalent year, Winfrey propelled her very 
own TV arrange, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). 
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• Life story 
• After an agitated puberty in a little cultivating network, where she was 
explicitly manhandled by various male relatives and companions of her 
mom, Vernita, Oprah Winfrey moved to Nashville to live with her dad, 
Vernon, a stylist and businessperson. She entered Tennessee State 
University in 1971 and started working in radio and TV broadcasting in 
Nashville. 
• In 1976, Oprah Winfrey moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she 
facilitated the TV visit show People Are Talking. The show turned into a 
hit and Winfrey remained with it for a long time, after which she was 
enlisted by a Chicago TV station to have her own morning appear, A.M. 
Chicago. 
• Her significant rival in the availability was Phil Donahue. Inside a while, 
Winfrey's open, caring individual style had won her 100,000 a larger 
number of watchers than Donahue and had taken her show from last 
spot to first in the appraisals.  
• Her prosperity prompted across the nation notoriety and a job in 
Steven Spielberg's 1985 film The Color Purple, for which she was 
named for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 
• 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' 
 
• Winfrey propelled The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986 as a broadly 
syndicated program. With its arrangement on 120 channels and a 
group of people of 10 million individuals, the show netted $125 million 
before the finish of its first year, of which Winfrey got $30 million. 
• She before long picked up responsibility for program from ABC, drawing 
it under the control of her new creation organization, Harpo Productions 
('Oprah' spelled in reverse) and getting increasingly more cash from 
syndication. 
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• In 1994, with television shows winding up progressively trashy and 
exploitative, Winfrey vowed to keep her show free of newspaper 
themes. In spite of the fact that evaluations at first fell, she earned the 
regard of her watchers and was before long compensated with an 
upsurge in ubiquity. Her tasks with Harpo have incorporated the 
profoundly appraised 1989 TV miniseries, The Women of Brewster 
Place, which she likewise featured in. 
• Winfrey likewise marked a multi-picture contract with Disney. The 
underlying task, 1998's Beloved, in light of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 
by Toni Morrison and featuring Winfrey and Danny Glover, got blended 
audits and for the most part neglected to satisfy desires. 
• Activism, Charity and Awards 
• As per Forbes magazine, Winfrey was the most extravagant African 
American of the twentieth century and the world's just Black extremely 
rich person for a long time running. Life magazine hailed her as the 
most powerful lady of her age. 
• In 2005, Business Week named her the best Black donor in American 
history. Oprah's Angel Network has raised more than $50 million for 
magnanimous projects, incorporating young ladies' training in South 
Africa and help to the casualties of Hurricane Katrina. 
• Winfrey is a devoted extremist for kids' rights; in 1994, President Bill 
Clinton marked a bill into law that Winfrey had proposed to Congress, 
making an across the country database of sentenced kid abusers. 
• She likewise established the Family for Better Lives establishment and 
furthermore adds to her place of graduation, Tennessee State 
University. In September 2002, Oprah was named the principal 
beneficiary of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Bob Hope 
Humanitarian Award.
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