Posted on 11/21/2009 7:11:24 PM PST by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO – For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.
Now she's ready to say goodbye, leaving a huge void for broadcast TV even as she raises the possibility of more Oprah than ever when she starts her own cable network.
Winfrey told viewers Friday that she will dim the lights on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" at the close of its 25th season in late 2011.
"I love this show. This show has been my life. And I love it enough to know when it's time to say goodbye," she said, holding back tears. "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones, and it feels right in my spirit. It's the perfect number, the exact right time."
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Well, being given two years notice should help some.
Good ca$h cows don’t come cheap.. she’ll be hard nigh impossible to replace.
maybe ‘The Sarah Palin Show’ deserves a shot.
She is already a “huge” void. IMHO
Just in time for the 2012 elections, eh????
This does represent a major problem — the stock in Kleenex will drop by at least 50% and commercialized liberalism will take a severe setback. Think of all those women that will have to make themselves cry and be miserable......wow, this will be culture shock for the Obama crowd....
She is truly a no talented nothing used to purge the masses of racism.
Nah, she said she would rather write...
“leaving a huge void”
....void?!! what void?....no more plugging phoney books?...no more pop psychology?...no more Obama worship?...
I’ve never seen an Oprah show for more than 10 minutes....and that was once every two or three years.
Who cares about that opportunistic, racist, gas bag. She is no different than Jerry Springer.
OMG, what am I ever gonna do without Oprah????
Same thing I always have, I guess. :)
About time she stopped polluting the airwaves!
You would think a 2-year warning would suffice
Maybe they can replace her with Rosie O’Donnell.
Don't make me puke. She is just a female Jerry Springer! Who do they think they are kidding.
Big deal. She is going to OWN her OWN cable channel.
Hey, that is an amazing coincidence, she could call it OWN(Oprah Winfrey Network).
She has the power and franchises to fill up her own network. Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and more. she owns those shows and can easily develop more.
Oh, dear.
Another bailout.
She is a worthless opiate for the mindless women. She is a joke. She fills the cranium of with mush. Adios — Leave quickly.
that would be enough to make me say umgud!
The leftist harpies of “The View” stand ready to take up the slack for self-congratulatory or flakey New Age liberal women everywhere.
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