In November 2009, Oprah Winfrey announced she is leaving the Oprah Winfrey Show after 25 years as the face of afternoon television a role that helped position her as one of the most powerful women in entertainment and the world.
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When media mogul Oprah Winfrey bid farewell to 25 years of The Oprah Winfrey Show in May, she left viewers with a cliff-hanger.
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The answer, hope executives at the nascent Oprah Winfrey Network: the making of the final months of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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In January a second show hosted by Winfrey, Oprah's Next Chapter, will follow her around the world as she interviews high-profile subjects.
Whether Winfrey will reinvent herself again on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), the five-month old, struggling 24-hour cable network, remains to be seen.
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But when he hosted Oprah Winfrey's 40th birthday party, he made copies of his CD with Oprah's picture on it and handed it out to party guests.
None of these questions are new, but, with Winfrey having embarked on an extraordinary venture starting a cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), that is meant to be entirely in her own image they are worth asking.
In addition to disappointing a loyal audience of more than two decades and a considerable staff in Chicago, Winfrey's decision is a blow to the syndication unit of CBS, which owns the rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as ABC Networks, which owns a collection of stations that air it now.
What could be as exciting to loyal Oprah viewers as the final months of The Oprah Winfrey Show?
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Oprah Winfrey will make a significant contribution, first on the Internet, then on the cable channel.
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At 51, Oprah Winfrey is still on the air, still beautiful, still rich and still single.
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The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) seems to be off to a good start.
OWN, a joint venture between Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Inc. and cable programmer Discovery Communications Inc.
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"The Oprah Winfrey Show" has become a main tourist attraction that has transformed its Chicago neighborhood.
King brings the aura of Oprah Winfrey, her star-making best friend and patron.
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Finally, of course, he went to Oprah Winfrey and said he'd been lying all along.
Oprah Winfrey kicked off the day, and Warren Buffett and Bill Gates also gave keynote talks.
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"The Oprah Winfrey Show" invited her to try the neti pot on television in 2007.
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Among the high-profile grads: Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Donald Trump hold degrees in speech, film and economics, respectively.
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On Oprah Winfrey's show last month Smith reprised his film stunt, solving the cube in two minutes.
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