She was nineteen years old and still a sophomore in college. At the time her ratings in Baltimore were better than Phil Donahue's, a national talk-show host, and she and DiMaio were hired. Winfrey moved to Chicago, Illinois, in January and took over as anchor on A. Chicago, a morning talk show that was consistently last in the ratings. She changed the emphasis of the show from traditional women's issues to current and controversial debatable topics, and after one month the show was even with Donahue's program.
Three months later it had inched ahead. In September the program, renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show, was expanded to one hour. As a result, Donahue moved to New York City. In Quincy Jones — saw Winfrey on television and thought she would make a fine actress in a movie he was coproducing with director Steven Spielberg —.
Her only acting experience until then had been in a one-woman show, The History of Black Women Through Drama and Song, which she performed during an African American theater festival in The popularity of Winfrey's show skyrocketed after the success of The Color Purple, and in September the distributor King World bought the syndication rights the rights to distribute a television program to air the program in one hundred thirty-eight cities, a record for first-time syndication. That year, although Donahue was being aired on two hundred stations, Winfrey won her time slot by 31 percent, drew twice the Chicago audience as Donahue, and carried the top ten markets in the United States.
In Winfrey received a special award from the Chicago Academy for the Arts for unique contributions to the city's artistic community and was named Woman of Achievement by the National Organization of Women. Winfrey formed her own production company, Harpo, Inc. Winfrey also owned the screen rights to Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane's autobiographical having to do with a story about oneself book about growing up under apartheid in South Africa, as well as Toni Morrison's — novel Beloved.
In September Winfrey started an on-air reading club. On September 17 Winfrey stood up and announced she wanted "to get the country reading. They would then discuss it together on the air the following month. The initial reaction was astonishing. The Deep End of the Ocean had generated significant sales for a first novel; sixty-eight thousand copies had gone into the stores since June. But between the last week in August, when Winfrey told her plans to the publisher, and the September on-air announcement, Viking printed ninety thousand more.
By the time the discussion was broadcast on October 18, there were seven hundred fifty thousand copies in print. The book became a number one best-seller, and another one hundred thousand were printed before February The club ensured Winfrey as the most powerful book marketer in the United States. She sent more people to bookstores than morning news programs, other daytime shows, evening magazines, radio shows, print reviews, and feature articles combined.
But after a six-year run with her book club, Winfrey decided to cut back in the spring of and no longer have the book club as a monthly feature. Although one of the wealthiest women in America and the highest paid entertainer in the world, 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.
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It will be sad to say goodbye," said Winfrey, "but I look ahead with such a knowing that what the future holds is even more than I can see.
Winfrey returned to acting in Greenleaf , which marked her first recurring scripted television role. The original family drama, which revolves around a Memphis megachurch, premiered on OWN in June In December , it was announced that Discovery had become the majority owner of OWN, with the purchase of Winfrey retained In June , Winfrey agreed to a multi-year deal in which she would create original content for Apple.
As part of her partnership with Apple, Winfrey signed on as executive producer of On the Record , a documentary about several of the women who accused music producer Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct. However, Winfrey abruptly pulled her support of the doc shortly before it was scheduled to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. According to Forbes magazine, Winfrey was the richest African American of the 20th century and the world's only Black billionaire for three years running.
Life magazine hailed her as the most influential woman of her generation. Winfrey is a dedicated activist for children's rights; in , President Bill Clinton signed a bill into law that Winfrey had proposed to Congress, creating a nationwide database of convicted child abusers.
She also founded the Family for Better Lives foundation and also contributes to her alma mater, Tennessee State University. In November , Winfrey received the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Barack Obama gave her this award for her contributions to her country.
Winfrey campaigned for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in December , attracting the largest crowds of the primary season to that point. It was the first time Winfrey had ever campaigned for a political candidate.
The biggest event was at the University of South Carolina football stadium, where 29, supporters attended a rally that had been switched from an 18,seat basketball arena to satisfy public demand.
Martin Luther King dreamed the dream. But we don't have to just dream the dream any more," Winfrey told the crowd. In November , Winfrey campaigned with Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, the first Black female nominee for a major party to run for governor in any state. Winfrey knocked on doors and even participated in a town-hall meeting with the Democratic candidate. In the end, Abrams narrowly lost her election bid to Republican Brian Kemp. Winfrey and President Donald Trump have a long history together.
Trump has also endorsed Winfrey on Twitter many times, from her decision to launch a television network to praising her interview with Lance Armstrong.
After becoming president, Trump said that he was friends with Winfrey until he ran for office.
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