Oprah Winfrey

By JavondaT

  • Birth

    Oprah Winfrey was born

  • Becomes Nashville’s first African-American TV correspondent

    the youngest person to co-anchor the news for WTVF, a CBS-affiliated television station

  • Moves to Baltimore

    later hosts the TV chat show People are Talking

  • Relocates to Chicago

    to host her own morning show AM Chicago, which was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show a year later

  • Makes film debut in Steven Spielberg’s

    The Color Purple for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

  • Winfrey launches The Oprah Winfrey Show

    a nationally syndicated program placed on 120 channels

  • Established Harpo Productions

    (“Oprah” spelt backwards)

  • Enrols at Tennessee State University

    begins working on a Nashville radio station reading the news .

  • Launches O

    The Oprah Magazine which is credited as being the most successful magazine launch in recent history