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Source(google.com.pk)American media personality Oprah Winfrey just might be the most influential person in the world. Millions and millions of people all over the globe tune in to her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which airs every weekday, and has been a phenomenal success for nearly two decades.
Early Life
When Oprah was born in 1954, she was an illegitimate child who was basically unwanted by either of her parents. At a very young age, Oprah’s mother left Oprah with her grandmother in rural Mississippi.
For many years, Oprah had no contact with her mother, did not know who her father was, and was hated by most of the kids in her school. She found her main joy in learning and reading, which continued throughout her life. She also had a knack and joy for speaking, especially public speaking. This, too, would be another theme that would continue throughout Oprah’s life.
At age six, she went to live with her mother in an apartment in Milwaukee. While there, she received hardly any attention from her mother, who was busy with work, a new daughter, and a boyfriend. Oprah moved to Nashville to live with her father, but after less then a year, she moved back in with her mother.
At age nine, Oprah was raped by an older cousin, and for the next several years, she was sexually abused by several other male relatives and friends of her mother, but remained silent about it. Oprah also became very rebellious at that time, and her mother felt that she couldn’t handle her anymore.
At age 14, she was sent to Nashville to once again live with her father, and with her stepmother. They quickly became a very positive influence on her, and they helped form structure in Oprah’s life. Oprah’s outstanding schoolwork also caused a teacher to send her to a more challenging school.
Building a Career in Broadcasting
While Oprah was in high school, she began her broadcasting career as a newswomen for a Nashville radio station. In 1971, she entered Tennessee State University, and shortly later became a television news anchor for a Nashville station.
In 1976, Oprah went to Baltimore and briefly worked as a reporter and co-anchor for their ABC affiliate. However, she found that objective reporting was not her style, especially since she displayed so much emotion and personal involvement in her reporting.
She soon moved on to become co-host of a local talk show called People Are Talking. The show was very successful, and Oprah found her fit as a talk show host.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
In 1984, Oprah went to Chicago to host a struggling talk show called A.M. Chicago. She quickly turned the show into a phenomenon, and after less than one year it was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show.
By 1986, the show entered national syndication, and it has been the number one talk show in America ever since. It currently draws over 20 million US viewers per week, and is also broadcast in over 100 other countries.
Other Pursuits
Through her production company Harpo Productions, Oprah owns and produces The Oprah Winfrey Show (which she bought the rights to in 1988), and is one of the wealthiest people in the media industry.
Among her other ventures, Oprah has had numerous television and movie roles, runs a magazine called O, is a cofounder of Oxygen media, produces films for ABC, is involved in many philanthropic activities, and speaks actively against child abuse.
Oprah and Her Show
So just what is it about Oprah and The Oprah Winfrey Show that give them such great appeal all over the world?
Genuine
One thing that really stands out about Oprah is the genuineness and sincerity that she radiates both in and out of her show. Oprah brings her heart and soul into her shows, keeps it real, and expresses her nature. She is also sincerely interested in her show’s topics and guests.
Oprah is even willing to honestly share her personal experiences to a television audience of millions, in hopes that viewers will learn from them. On many occasions, she has shared and expressed details of her past abuses, her former drug problem, and even her weight fluctuations. Such personal topics would normally not even be mentioned by other talk show hosts or media personalities.
Empowering
Oprah not only preaches self-empowerment, she also exemplifies and radiates it herself. It was her self-empowering attitude that made her emerge from a frequently abusive and bleak looking upbringing to become one of the most influential people in the world. She developed such a strong personality that she was able to climb the rungs of broadcasting very quickly, even though very few African American women up to that time had become a major factor in the media.
Oprah even took everything a step further when she created Harpo Productions a few years after The Oprah Winfrey Show debuted, and later purchased sole ownership of the show, making her one of the top businesswomen the world has ever known.
When people tune into Oprah’s show, they get a heavy dose of the empowering attitude that have made the woman and her show so successful for so many years.
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