OPRAH WINFREY

WHO IS OPRAH WINFREY ?

Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American entrepreneur, TV show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

She's the chairman of Harpo, Inc. She is the only African American billionaire with an

estimated net worth of $2.9 billion. She's the first black woman to own and run a

television network, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Launched on January 1, 2011 .

TIMELINE ….

Born : January 29,1954.

1970: at age 19 she became the first African woman to anchor the news in Nashville at WTVF.

1984: became the host of AM Chicago.

1986: The Oprah Winfrey show was born.

1988: Harpo studios was established.

1993: Bill Clinton signed the “Oprah Bill” which was the national child protection.

1997: Oprah’s Angel network was founded.

2000: Oprah started her magazine O,the Oprah

magazine.

2004: O at home her home magazine was published.

HER BEGINNING

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood.

OPRAH AT COLLEGE

Oprah began her college at Tennessee State in 1972

She won the “Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant”

Was offered an on-air job at WVOL, a radio station serving the African American community in Nashville

Auditioned for a television show and “became the first black person ever to be a news –show anchor on Nashville television”

HITTING THE BIG TIME

1976, she moved to Baltimore she co-hosted her first talk show , People are Talking.

In 1984,she was invited to Chicago to host a faltering

half -hour morning program on WLS-TV. In less than a year ,she turned AM Chicago into the hottest

show in town, The format was soon expanded to an hour ,and in september1985 it was renamed The Oprah Winfrey show .

The Oprah Winfrey show broadcast nationally, and quickly become the number one talk show in national syndication.

THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW

The Oprah Winfrey Show  is the highest-rated TV talk show in history, seen in 110 countries and was internationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. The series finale of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired on May 25, 2011.

ENTERTAINMENT ENTREPRENEUR

In 1988, Oprah founded her own production facility, Harpo Studios which employs around 250 full-time people in television and film production, magazine publishing, and online media.

She is also co-founder of Oxygen Media, which operates the Oxygen Network, a cable network for women reaching more than 54 million viewers.

MOVIES:

In 1985 Oprah gave a breakout performance as "Sofia" in Stephen Spielberg's The Color Purple, garnering both Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.

In 1990, she founded Harpo Films to work on projects based on contemporary and classic literature

Harpo has a long-term deal with ABC to produce the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" telefilms.

O MAGAZINE:

In 2000, in partnership with Hearst Magazines, Oprah launched O, The Oprah Magazine, a monthly magazine.

It become one of today's top women's lifestyle publications.

It now has a circulation of more than two million monthly readers

Fortune called it "the most successful startup ever in the industry".

In 2004, she launched O at Home, a seasonal home design magazine.

INTERNET INNOVATOR

With three million users per month generating 45 million page views, Oprah.com is one of the top women's lifestyle websites.

It's also the home of Oprah's Book Club, now the largest book club in the world with more than half a million members.

It's also the home of Live Your Best Life, an multimedia section featuring Oprah's personal life stories, life lessons, and an interactive workbook.

OPRAH’S GENEROSITY

Gives presents to children in Africa during Christmas time where she is known as”Mama Oprah”

She donates funds to historically black colleges all over U.S

She is known for giving away elaborate gifts to her guests and audience members

MONEY MONEY MONEY……..!!!! Net Worth:$2.9 Billion Annual Salary:$300 Million Per Year The Oprah Winfrey Show:$315,000,000/year

Winfrey owns:- a beautiful apartment in Chicago, - a big house in New Jersey, - an estate in Florida,- a ski house in Colorado, - a house in Douglasville, Georgia, and land on Maui, Hawaii and Antigua. -currently lives on “The Promised Land” where she has 14 bathrooms and 10 exquisite fireplaces.

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

1987:First Emmy award for best talk/service show host and

best show.

1989:Entertainer of the year award from The National

Association for the Advancement of Colored People's

1991:Initiated the National Child Protection Act

1995:won an Emmy for Best Talk Show

-Best Host for the second year in a row,

-Became the first woman and the only black on Forbes list of

400 richest Americans

1996:The George Foster Peabody's Individual Achievement

Award

1998:A Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmy

Awards

2002:The Bob Hope Humanitarian Award

2005: Oprah was named by Time magazine as one of the 100

most influential people of the year

2011: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

-Ranked in 9th place in public poll of the greatest Americans

-First black person listed by Business Week as one of America's

top 50 most generous philanthropists

-she is the only person to have been included in the list of Time

Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, all eight

times(2004 to 2011).

15 INSPIRING BUSINESS LESSONS FROM OPRAH WINFREY

1.) Be True to Your Self

2.) Respond to Prejudice with Excellence

3.) If You Haven’t Fallen, You Haven’t Walked

4.) Find the Good in the Bad

5.) Challenge the Status Quo

6.) Follow Your Gut

7.) Make Your Own Luck

8.) Help Yourself by Helping Others

9.) Say “Thank You” More

10.) Know How to Slow Down

11.) Choose Your Friends Wisely

12.) There is No Big Secret

13.) It’s Easier to Succeed While Doing What You Love

14.) Own Everything You Do

15.) You’re In Charge

She appears on every list of the world’s leading opinion-makers, and has been rightly called

“THE MOST POWERFUL ENTERPRENUER WOMAN IN THE WORLD”