CHICAGO The Oprah Winfrey Show an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a dollar media empire will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air Winfreys production company said Thursday night Winfrey plans to announce the final date for her show during a live broadcast on Friday Harpo Productions Inc said bringing an end to what has been toprated talk show for more than two decades airing in 145 countries worldwide and watched by an estimated 42 million viewers a week in the US alone A Harpo spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday on Winfreys future plans except to say that The Oprah Winfrey Show will not move to cable television Winfrey 55 is widely expected to start up a new talk show on OWN The Oprah Winfrey Network a joint venture with Discovery Inc that is expected to debut in 2011 OWN is to replace Health Channel and will debut in some 74 million homes An OWN spokeswoman declined comment Thursday CBS Television which distributes The Oprah Winfrey Show to more than 200 markets blanketing the United States held out hope that it could continue doing business with Winfrey perhaps producing a new show out of its studios in Los Angeles We know that anything she turns her hand to will be a great success the unit of CBS Corp said in a statement We look forward to working with her for the next several years and hopefully afterwards as well Winfreys 24th season opened earlier this year with a bang as she drew more than 20000 fans to Chicagos Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue for a block party with the Black Eyed Peas She followed up with a series of blockbuster interviews Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield exclusives with singer Whitney Houston and ESPNs Erin Andrews andjust this week former Alaska governor GOP vice candidate and author Sarah Palin Over the years The Oprah Winfrey Show grew from a newcomer that chipped away at talk king Phil Donahue s dominance into a program that turned The show covered a gamut that ranged from interviews with the worlds most famous celebrities to an honest discussion about her weight struggles As that show evolved it really kind of dressed up the of the daytime talk show said Robert Thompson professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University There was a seriousness to it as though what she was doing was a calling and not just a television show In 1986 Liberace gave his final TV interview to Winfrey just six weeks before he died In a widely viewed primetime special aired in 1993 Michael Jackson revealed he suffered from a skin condition that produces Tom Cruise declared his affection for the Katie Holmes on the program in 2005 and jumped on the couch to prove it In 2004 Winfrey unveiled her most famous giveaway when nearly 300 members of the studio audience opened a gift box to find the keys to a new car inside The stunt became a classic show moment as much for Oprahs reaction You get a car You get a car You get a car Everybody gets a car as its 7 million price tag The show also became a launching pad for Oprahs Book Club and authors whose books were selected became The titles ranged from Song of Solomon and Paradise by Toni Morrison to Wally Lamb s Shes Come Undone and Elie Wiesels Night For others the selection backfired A Million Little Pieces exploded in sales after Winfrey chose the James Frey memoir in fall 2005 Soon after it was revealed as a fabricated tale of addiction and recovery and Winfrey later chewed out Frey on her show Shes been a great a for all the shifts in politics and social and in general said hiphop mogul Russell Simmons I call her Queen of the New because she did so many things to change lives the books that she promoted The loss of The Oprah Winfrey Show would be a blow to CBS Corp because it earns a percentage of hefty licensing fees from TV stations that use it the show is largely seen on ABC affiliates On a conference call with analysts two weeks ago CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said the contract with the show runs through most of 2011 and if theres a negative impact it wouldnt hit us until 12 Oprahs been a force of media and theres really no person you can look to out there who you could say Thats the heir apparent said Larry Gerbrandt an analyst for the firm Media Valuation Partners in Los Angeles Gerbrandt noted many stations built their schedules around Winfreys show and used it topromote other shows Its a big loss but not as huge as it would have been 10 years ago he said However it still commands the biggest audience and ABC station competitors are licking their chops Talk of the shows end often has accompanied impending contract for Winfrey Before she signed her current contract in 2004 she had talked about quitting after the 20052006 season As far back as 1995 she had called continuing a difficult and important decision CBS continues to sell several top shows into including Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy But many TV stations are struggling with falling advertising revenue and were unlikely to pay the same fees as in the past for Winfreys show which has seen ratings slip 7 percent from a year ago and saw its average viewership slip below 7 million last season Winfrey started her career as a teenager in Nashville Tenn reading the news at WVOL Two years started news broadcasts on WTVFTV in Nashville In 1976 she moved to Baltimore to anchor newscasts at WJZTV before becoming host of the local talk show People Are Talking In 1984 she relocated to Chicago to host WLSTVs morning talk show AM Chicago the show was became The Oprah Winfrey Show one year later She set up Harpo the following year and her talk show went into Powered by the shows staggering success Winfrey built a media empire Harpo Studios produces shows hosted by Dr Phil McGraw and celebrity chef Rachael Ray and O The Oprah Magazine was the nations 7th most popular magazine in the first half of 2009 I came from nothing Winfrey wrote in the 1998 book Journey to Beloved 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 Earlier this yearForbes zdobył Winfreys netto warte na 27 mld euro nawet jako magazyn wycięte jej z atop swoją listę najbardziej światy honor poszedłem do Angelina Jolie ale Winfrey był nadal nr 2 w wykazie 100 Smerf roczne i górnym na 275 milionów AP Business Writer Ryan Nakashima się do tego raportu z Los Angeles