Oprah Gail Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Indiana. She is an American talk show host, producer, actress, and media owner. Most people know Winfrey for her famous talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” The show has a larger number of viewers than any other show in TV history.

Winfrey’s Early Life

Oprah Winfrey went from being poor and mistreated to being perhaps of the most powerful people on the planet. On January 29, 1954, she was born Orpah Gail Winfrey. That wasn’t spelled wrong. Her name, “Orpah,” was a reference to a character in the Bible’s Book of Ruth. At the point when she was a baby, individuals frequently mispronounced her name as “Oprah,” which stuck She was born in the Mississippi town of Kosciusko.

When Oprah was 12, she shifted to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon. She ran away from home when she was 13 since she was being hurt there. She got pregnant when she was 14. Her son was born too early and died.

She went to Tennessee State University on a scholarship to pursue communication, which she did. At age 19, Oprah quit school to work full-time in the media.

Career

Oprah was the first black woman to be a news anchor at Nashville’s WLAC-TV. She was likewise the station’s most young anchor of all time. She was hired by WJZ, a station in Baltimore, to co-anchor the six o’clock news when she was 22 years of age. This was a coveted job.

She began co-hosting a talk show called People Are Talking in August 1978. By 1980, she was more famous in Baltimore than Phil Donahue, whose show was broadcast all around the country. Toward the end of her time in Baltimore, she was making $220,000 per year, which is about $560,000 today when you take inflation into account.

In 1984, ABC gave Oprah her own 30-minute morning talk show in Chicago. The show was created by a company called King World Productions, which saw her true capacity. Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune were both made by the same company, King World. The job came with a $1 million agreement for four years. Taking inflation into account, $250k a year in those days is the same as around $600k a year now.

Achievements

·         The Oprah Winfrey Show is the highest-rated television program of its kind in history

·         She has a successful acting career and a production company

·         Her “O Magazine” became the most successful start-up in the history of the industry

·         Oprah became the first African American woman on Forbes’ list of billionaires

·         She is one of the most influential people of her time

·         Oprah Winfrey had a major influence on Obama becoming American president

·         She opened an academy for impoverished girls in South Africa

·         She is one of the most generous philanthropists of the 21st century

·         Oprah Winfrey was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013

·         She has written a bestselling book titled “What I Know For Sure”

Oprah’s Net Worth

Oprah Winfrey is a media personality, TV host, and author from the United States. Oprah is worth  $3.5 billion dollars. She makes roughly $315 million a year currently, because of her entirely profitable and diverse media empire.