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Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show
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Genre Talk show
Created by Oprah Winfrey
Directed by Joseph C. Terry
Presented by Oprah Winfrey
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 25
No. of episodes 4,561
Production
Location(s) Harpo Studios
Chicago, Illinois
Camera setup Multiple
Running time 45 minutes
Production company(s) Harpo Productions (1986–2010) (seasons 1-24)
Harpo Studios (2010–2011) (season 25)
Distributor King World Productions (1986–2007) (seasons 1-22)
CBS Television Distribution (2007–2011) (seasons 22-25)
Harpo Studios (2011-present)
Release
Original network Syndicated, ABC O&Os
Picture format 480i SDTV
720p HDTV (ABC and Fox affiliates)
1080i HDTV (CBS and NBC affiliates)
Audio format MTS stereo
Original release September 8, 1986 (1986-09-08) – May 25, 2011 (2011-05-25)
Chronology
Related shows Oprah's Lifeclass
Super Soul Sunday
Oprah's Next Chapter
Oprah: Where Are They Now?
External links
Website

The Oprah Winfrey Show, often referred to simply as Oprah, is an American syndicated tabloid talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from September 8, 1986 to May 25, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Produced and hosted by its namesake, Oprah Winfrey, it remains the highest-rated talk show in American television history.

The show has been highly influential, and many of its topics have penetrated into the American pop-cultural consciousness. Winfrey has used the show as an educational platform, featuring book clubs, interviews, self-improvement segments, and philanthropic forays into world events. The show does not attempt to profit off the products it endorses; it has had no licensing agreement with retailers when products were promoted, nor has the show made any money from endorsing books for its book club.

Oprah is one of the longest-running daytime television tabloid talk shows in history. The show received 47 Daytime Emmy Awards before Winfrey chose to stop submitting it for consideration in 2000.

In 2002, TV Guide ranked it at #49 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, they ranked it as the 19th greatest TV show of all time.

The show has its roots in A.M. Chicago, a half-hour morning talk show airing on WLS-TV, an ABC owned-and-operated station in Chicago. Winfrey took over as host on January 2, 1984 and, within a month, took it from last place to first place in local Chicago ratings. Following Winfrey's success in—and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for—her performance as Sofia in the movie The Color Purple, on September 8, 1986 the talk show was relaunched under its current title and picked up nationally. For the premiere, the show's producers tried rigorously to book Miami Vice's Don Johnson as the first guest, even trying to bribe him with Dom Pérignon and a pair of rhinestone sunglasses. All attempts to book Johnson failed and Winfrey decided to "do what we do best, and that is a show about and with everyday people". The topic for the premiere show was "How to Marry the Man or Woman of Your Choice".


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