After months of failing to live up to the success of her extraordinarily popular television talk show, Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network is undergoing a makeover. According to Forbes, Winfrey and Discovery Communications is upping the network’s advertising push as well as featuring two of the network’s biggest stars, Winfrey herself and Rosie O’Donnell. Adding to a […]
LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith have been picked to receive honorary Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says the three will be honored with Oscar statuettes at the Governors Awards in November. The academy’s Board of Governors voted Tuesday to recognize the entertainment industry […]
Oprah Winfrey was named on Wednesday the chief executive and chief creative officer of OWN, the cable network she launched earlier this year. Winfrey posted a letter on Facebook today, explaining that Harpo Productions Inc. will join forces with OWN to run the network. The letter read: So as of today… Harpo Team and OWN […]
NEW YORKÂ — When Oprah Winfrey told her daytime viewers farewell last month, more than 16 million were watching.
From her impact on the national lexicon, to propelling the careers of numerous celebrities and figures and to the countless self-help revelations and mantras that have helped us shape our lives, Oprah Winfrey’s influence will be long cemented in the public conscious. As the daily dose of wisdom that has become the Oprah Winfrey show […]
NEW YORK – Preliminary figures show Wednesday’s finale of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” scored its highest audience in 17 years. The Nielsen Co. said Thursday that the final episode delivered a 13.3 household rating in the nation’s metered markets. It was the highest number since February 1994. That’s when an “Oprah” episode called “People Shed […]
Whether she’s wheeling out a a wagon with 67 pounds of fat or having grown men jumping on couches like idiots, The Oprah Winfrey Show has had a fair share of shocking moments. ALSO READ: ELEV8’S TOP 10 THINGS LEARNED FROM OPRAH Take a look at the Oprah.com gallery, which highlights the the 13 most […]
CHICAGO — Oprah Winfrey’s talk show ends Wednesday with an episode featuring only the talk show queen thanking her viewers and highlighting the lessons they have learned from one another over 25 years. Audience members who attended the Tuesday taping in Chicago of the final episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” said Winfrey was the […]
An article on The Root today lists the top 25 interviews with Black guests on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The obvious number one is the show’s first interview with a sitting President and First Lady. Just hours after releasing his original birth certificate, and not long before he would announce the death of Osama Bin […]
From Dr. Oz to Stedman Graham, the list of celebrities that owe much of their success to the “Oprah Effect” goes on and on. An article on The Grio today addresses the advantages of being affiliated with television’s leading lady, who hosts the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show today. READ THE FULL LIST […]
CHICAGO– A group of Morehouse College students surprised Oprah during the “Farewell Spectacular” on Tuesday. The men are amongst a group of 400 recipients of a Oprah Winfrey scholarship. Paying it forward is one of the ways the men have chosen to thank Ms. Winfrey for their gift. Collectively, they have pledged over $300,000 to […]
CHICAGO– Robert Spearing, 44, told police that two men beat him up and stole his tickets to Tuesday’s Oprah show, but later admitted that he’d actually used a rock to cut his own forehead and scraped his hands on the sidewalk.
