The Oprah Winfrey Show begins its 25th and final season
2009 BCE
Interviews Whitney Houston in what Winfrey describes as the “best interview she’s ever done”
2007 BCE
Campaigns for Barack Obama to be elected as US President
2005 BCE
Ranked number one on Forbes’ Power Celebrity list
2003 BCE
Oprah’s Book Club becomes the largest book club in the world and she receives the Association of American Publishers’ AAP Honors Award
2000 BCE
Launches O, The Oprah Magazine which is credited as being the most successful magazine launch in recent history
1999 BCE
Co-founds Oxygen Media, a company dedicated to producing cable and internet programming for women
1998 BCE
Receives her seventh Emmy as Outstanding Talk Show Host and the ninth Emmy for The Oprah Winfrey Show; Winfrey is named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the 20th century
1994 BCE
President Clinton signs the “Oprah Bill”, creating a nationwide database of convicted child abusers
1989 BCE
Stars in the ABC TV miniseries The Women of Brewster Place
1986 BCE
Launches The Oprah Winfrey Show as a nationally syndicated program placed on 120 channels
1985 BCE
Makes film debut in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1984 BCE
Relocates to Chicago to host her own morning show AM Chicago, which was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show a year later
1976 BCE
Moves to Baltimore and later hosts the TV chat show People are Talking
1973 BCE
Becomes Nashville’s first African-American TV correspondent and the youngest person to co-anchor the news for WTVF, a CBS-affiliated television station
Established Harpo Productions (“Oprah” spelt backwards)
OWN, or the Oprah Winfrey Network, launches on New Year's Day
