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Oprah Ending Show in 2011

She will offer more details during tomorrow's broadcast

By the Associated Press

Posted Nov 19, 2009 5:42 PM CST

(AP) – Oprah Winfrey will end her talk show in 2011 after 25 years. She will provide more details during tomorrow's show, says her Harpo Productions. Winfrey started her broadcasting career in Nashville and Baltimore before relocating to Chicago in 1984 to host WLS-TV's morning talk show AM Chicago. It became The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1985 and has ruled the airwaves since.

Oprah Winfrey is pulling the plug on her talk show. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

Oprah Winfrey at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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plstyle

Nov 20, 2009 12:48 PM CST

Shes Running for office in 2012..

Spudsy

Nov 20, 2009 12:39 PM CST

She gets a new show on her own cable station. But part of the deal is that she has to shoot it in LA. She will be missed only because she employs so many people in Chicago. I did a little work for her years ago. If you can't say anything nice then... screw it. It was a miserable experience and her producers were bitches on steroids. Oh, that's not true. They were cun#s. Bitch is way too nice of a word for those people.

doingtherightthing

Nov 20, 2009 12:38 PM CST

about time she creeps me out......next year would be better...

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