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- In 1976, Winfrey moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where she hosted the TV talk show People Are Talking. The show became a hit, and Winfrey stayed with it for eight years, after which she was recruited by a Chicago TV station to host her own morning show, A.M. Chicago.
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Jan 18, 2023 · BALTIMORE -- Famed talk show host, media mogul and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey was back in Maryland where her career began. She was in Annapolis Wednesday to introduce and support Wes Moore, who...
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The station promoted her with the tagline, “What’s an Oprah?” and Baltimore was about to find out, as Winfrey (age 22 and making $22,000 a year) debuted on August 16, 1976. Working in a bustling metropolis was an adjustment for the girl born in rural Mississippi.
Feb 27, 2015 · When Oprah first started co-anchoring WJZ’s six-o’clock news program in 1976, the station promoted her with the tag line “What’s an Oprah?”. Just 22 years old, she struggled with the high-profile job–and a co-anchor who didn’t appreciate having to share the spotlight with a young woman.
Jan 18, 2023 · When I was just 22 years old, I moved to Maryland to start a new job as a co-anchor on WJZ-TV. And as I walked around the city of Baltimore that first week, I saw the strangest thing: my face on billboards advertising the 6 o’clock news with Jerry Turner, and a question, “What is an Oprah?”
May 18, 2011 · “The Oprah Winfrey Show” was built on the vision, talent and will of the young woman who left Baltimore for Chicago. Now everyone knows her name. But when the 22-year-old native of Kosciusko,...
In the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election, she endorsed Baltimore author Wes Moore in the Democratic primary, co-hosting a virtual fundraiser for him in June. Winfrey later attended and spoke at Moore's gubernatorial inauguration on January 18, 2023.
Mar 14, 2021 · It first aired Aug. 1, 1977, and lasted six years with Oprah before she headed off for Chicago. But in that time, she made the paramount discovery that comes only to those who become true stars in front of the ever-probing eye of TV cameras: Be yourself.
