“The Oprah Winfrey Show” will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons

Seems that “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, the foundation of a media empire that worth billions who start as a local Chicago talk show will end in 2011 after 25 seasons.
The 24th season opened earlier this year with a bang, more than 20,000 fans gathered to the city’s Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue for a Chicago block party with the Black Eyed Peas.

Oprah Winfrey

Because of the show Winfrey became a billionaire and one of the most powerful women in entertainment. Winfrey started her career as a teenager in Nashville, Tennesse, reading the news at WVOL. Two years later,  Winfrey started co-anchoring news broadcasts on WTVF-TV in Nashville. Then, In 1976 she moved to Baltimore to anchor newscasts at WJZ-TV before becoming host of the local talk show “People Are Talking”.
In 1984, she’s back to Chicago to host WLS-TV’s morning talk show “A.M. Chicago”. One year later  the show was named
“The Oprah Winfrey Show”.

In 1998 in the book “Journey to Beloved” Winfrey wrote: “I came from nothing. No power. No money. Not even my thoughts were my own. I had no free will. No voice. Now, I have the freedom, power, and will to speak to millions every day — having come from nowhere.”