Oprah Announces Final Chat Show
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Beloved media mogul will pass from chat show host to network owner.
One of America’s most influential and powerful television personalities, Oprah Winfrey called time on her long running chat show, The Oprah Winfrey Show once it completes its 25th season.
The last show will be aired on 9 September 2011, marking the end of the longest-running daytime talk show in America and one of the most instantly identifiable symbols of US television. Since 1986, Oprah has hosted over 3,500 shows which are aired in over 140 countries worldwide.
The Oprah Winfrey Show attracts over seven million viewers in the US alone each day, making Oprah one of the most successful TV shows in America.
“Oprah’s been a force of media and there’s really no person you can look to out there who could say, ‘That’s the heir apparent’. It’s a big loss,” commented media analyst Larry Gerbrandt to the Daily Mail.
Although Oprah has perhaps lost some of her command of ‘sofa dominance’ in the talk show world in recent years, the show still brings in more viewers than any other programme on the ABC station in the US.
Oprah is set to launch her own cable channel in Los Angeles The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) prompting rumours that the iconic host could start a new carbon copy of her eponymous show on OWN. Miss Winfrey has already hired Lisa Erspamer who was the executive producer of hundreds of Oprah episodes to become chief creative officer of OWN.
The new channel will reach over 70 million households in the States, further cementing Oprah’s place in history as one of the greatest media moguls of recent history.
