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Oprah Gail Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey was born Kosciusko, Mississippi into poverty to a single mother. Oprah was later raised by her Grandmother on a farm. -
High school years - Nashville, Tennessee 1971
Winfrey became an excellent student, participating as well in the drama club, debate club, and student council. Oprah Winfrey was crowned Miss Fire Prevention by WVOL, a local Nashville radio station, and was hired by the station to read afternoon newscasts. -
University of Tennessee during early 1970's
In an Elks Club speaking contest, she won a full scholarship to Tennessee State University. Oprah Winfrey was Nashville's first African American female co-anchor of the evening news. She was nineteen years old and still a sophomore in college -
Early Career as a broadcast journalist Mid 1970's to early 1980's
WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland, scheduled her to do the local news updates, called cut-ins, during Good Morning,
Baltimore Is Talking with cohost Richard Sher. After seven years on the show,
Baltimore Is Talking with cohost Richard Sher. After seven years on the show,
in January 1984 and took over as anchor on A.M. Chicago, Later renamed Oprah Winfrey Show -
The Oprah Winfrey Show 1986 to 2011
The show has been highly influential, and many of its topics have penetrated into the American pop-cultural consciousness. Winfrey has used the show as an educational platform, featuring book clubs, interviews, self-improvement segments, and philanthropic forays into world events. Oprah is one of the longest-running daytime television tabloid talk shows in history. The show received 47 Daytime Emmy Awards.
