On This Day In 1986: 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' Made Its National Debut

  

Oprah Winfrey set the tone for talk show television.
(c)The Outline

On This Day In 1986, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' debuted nationally for the first time. The popular daytime talk show ran for 25 seasons until to May 25, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois.⁣⁣

⁣⁣
In the late 2000s, it was shown in 134 countries with about 47 million viewers in the United States alone. It also became the highest-rated daytime talk show in television history and helped turn Oprah into one of the wealthiest and most influential women in the world.

After the final episode aired, she launched the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Here is Winfrey discussing her talk show 3 months later on CBS show '60 Minutes' with Mike Wallace.

 Facebook   |   Instagram   |   Twitter   |  YouTube

#TheBingeStopBlogspotCom

#TheBingeStopOnThisDay2021

⁣⁣