Oprah winfrey

Oprah is an American talk show host. She has been trough lots of thing in her young life. Such as from the ages of 9 to 13, she has been abused by visitors. When she tried to run away, she was sent to a juvenile detention home, only to be denied admission because all the beds were filled. By the age of 14 she gave birth to a death baby boy. Some month later she went to Nashville to live with her father. At the age of 17, Oprah Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant and was offered an on-air job at WVOL, a radio station serving the African American community in Nashville. She also won a full scholarship to Tennessee State University, where she majored in Speech Communications and Performing Arts. And that was the biggest things for her. She continued to work at WVOL in her first years of college. She left school and signed on with a local television station as a reporter and anchor. In 1976, she moved to Baltimore to join WJZ-TV News as a co-anchor. There, she co-hosted her first talk show, People Are Talking, while continuing to serve as anchor and news reporter. In January 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 September 1985 it was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. A year later, The Oprah Winfrey Show was broadcast nationally, and quickly became the number one talk show in national syndication. By the time America fell in love with Oprah Winfrey the talk show host.