Her endeavors as a media leader and philanthropist have made her as one of the most admired people of our time. Rightfully called the ‘world’s most powerful woman’ by and CNN, Oprah has influenced the lives of millions of people by building a consummate association with them. She signed a 55 million dollars contract with XM Satellite Radio to launch a new channel named ‘Oprah Radio’. Her website has an average of 70 million views and 6 million users every month. Oprah has authored five books and publishes a magazine ‘O, The Oprah Magazine’. She co-founded a successful cable station called ‘Oxygen’ and changed the Discovery Health Channel to OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network that launched in January 2011. Oprah revolutionized the ‘trash TV’ format to a more subtle, kinder and truly informative style and by the end of the 90’s completely reformed the way television was run. Her movies also include ‘Charlotte’s Web’, ‘Bee movie’ and ‘The Princess and the Frog’. Oprah made her film debut in the 1985 film ‘The Color Purple’. The company produced other miniseries including ‘The Women of Brewster Place’ and movies like ‘There Are No Children Here’ (1993) and ‘Before Women Had Wings’ (1997). gained the ownership and production rights to the Oprah Winfrey Show from 1998 onwards. Her passion for producing high standard entertainment programs encouraged her to form her own production company that she called ‘Harpo’ (which was her name spelled backwards). The show targeted various issues such as women empowerment and significance and human rights, which appealed to people of all ethnicities, genders and soon the whole of America was in love with this talented and magnetic personality who ran the show brilliantly. In the next three years it won several awards including three Daytime Emmy Awards in 1987 and another Emmy the next year. Renamed in September 1985 as ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ the program started to broadcast on a national level. In no time ‘AM Chicago’ was one of the most acclaimed TV shows. After devoting seven years to make this show successful, she was offered to host a morning show in the Windy City, Chicago. Her outgoing and ardent personality started grabbing the public’s attention. Her first talk show ‘People Are Talking’ became quite popular. This led to another job in Baltimore where she was co-anchor at WJZ-TV News. Overcoming Adversity: The Oprah Winfrey Success Story Oprah Winfrey was born in in 1954 in rural Mississippi, and could hardly have entered the world in poorer conditions. Oprah landed a job as an anchor at a local TV station.
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