She is permanently withdrawing her name from Daytime Emmy Award consideration because she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in 1998. "...after you've achieved it for a lifetime, what else is there?"
In addition to being a news anchor on WJZ-TV13 in Baltimore Maryland, She was a Co-host with Richard Sher (A reporter) on a local talk show on that station. It was called: People are Talking.
Graduated from East Nashville High School in Nashville, TN (1971); voted most popular
Was sued by Texas cattlemen who claimed that Oprah defamed beef on her talk show. The case went to trial, causing Oprah to have to relocate her show's production to Amarillo, TX for the duration of the trial. She was found not liable.
Ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly's 1998 list of the most powerful people in industry, but dropped to #6 in 1999 list. Still, the only performer ranked that high, as well as the only woman, and certainly the only African-American.
Graduate of Tennessee State University, with degrees in speech communications and performing arts
Is the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show.
Her name was intended to be Orpah, but it was misspelled on her birth certificate.
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37.
Announced that Oprah would receive $130,000,000 for continuing her talk show through the 1999-2000 TV season. [15 September 1997]
Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997]
Worked as a news anchor for WJZ Television in Baltimore, Maryland, in the late 1970s
Elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, NY
She and Stedman Graham are teaching "Dynamics of Leadership" class at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. [fall 1999]
Given an honorary National Book Award for her "influential contribution to reading and books". [October 1999]
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