Harpo Productions

Harpo Productions is the umbrella company for the entertainment and media mogul, talk show host, actress, and producer Oprah Winfrey or simply Oprah. Its flagship "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is known as the highest-rated television talk show in history and is seen in almost every US market and in 145 countries. Harpo also produces feature films ("Beloved," which also starred Winfrey) and made-for-TV movies ("Their Eyes Were Watching God"), as well as radio content distributed by SIRIUS XM Radio. In addition, Harpo publishes "O, The Oprah Magazine" with Hearst Magazines, which boasts a circulation of about 2.3 million, and it publishes content online through Oprah.com.http://www.hoovers.com/harpo/--ID__42591--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml?cm_ven=Biz_Dev&cm_cat=Google&cm_pla=Free&cm_ite=Factsheet Harpo Productions reports annual revenue of approximately $150 million and employs 200 Chicagoland residents.

Winfrey started her production company in 1986 and within a month goes into national syndication with The Oprah Winfrey Show, becomes the highest-rated TV talk show in U.S. history. Within a few years 49 million U.S. viewers are tuning in each week as well as 122 countries. In 2000 the show won 40 Emmy Awards. This prompting Oprah to remove the show from future award consideration.http://www.lycos.com/info/oprah-winfrey--harpo-productions.html

The newest scheduled addition to the Harpo family is The Nate Berkus Show. The show will be hosted by none other than Nate Berkus, design expert, best-selling author and one of Oprah's regular talk show guests. The show will feature a wide array of subjects within the realms of lifestyle, self improvement and entertainment. Other popular past productions and developments have consisted of The Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray.http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20100201-905691.html

• 1973: Oprah Winfrey starts her career in broadcasting as a newscaster in Nashville

• 1984: Oprah starts a Chicago morning talk show. This is the birth of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

• 1986 The Oprah Winfrey Show wins 3 Emmy Awards

• 1990: The Oprah Winfrey Show buys a production studio in Chicago

• 1988: Ownership and production rights for The Oprah Winfrey Show are assumed by Harpo Productions

• 1994: Oprah pledges to do away with sensationalism programming.

• 1996: The Oprah book club begins

• 2000: Premier of O magazine

• 2004: Harpo extends The Oprah Winfrey Show contract until 2011. http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Harpo-Inc-Company-History.html

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• Time Warner

• Sony Pictures Entertainmenthttp://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/cps_01/cps_01_00133.html

• The Oprah Winfrey Show

• Beloved

• Before Women Had Wings

• Oprah Online in conjunction with AOL

• Girlfriend

• Jon & Kate Plus 8

• The Women of Brewster Place

• Movie deals with Disney and Capital Cities/ABChttp://www.inbaseline.com/company.aspx?company_id=2009413