By the end of this year, Winfrey's Harpo Studios will close its doors in Chicago after 26 years, and all of the operations will be moved to the Oprah Winfrey Network's new headquarters in West Hollywood, it was announced today.
The 61-year-old media mogul, ranked 603 on Forbes' 2015 list of billionaires, personally delivered the news to her staff in Chicago Tuesday morning.
The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) was founded by the former 'queen of daytime' in 2011 in Los Angeles, and Winfrey's executives have spent the past four years traveling back and forth between Chicago and Hollywood.
Two months ago, OWN moved into a new three-story space called The Lot in West Hollywood, setting the stage for the shutdown of Harpo Studios in Chicago.
'[Chicago has] been everything for me. I've spent more hours in this building than I have any other building on Earth,' Miss Winfrey told The Hollywood Reporter by phone. 'We were here when there was nothing but hoes and rats on the street, and now it's one of the hottest neighborhoods.'
The Academy Award-nominated actress and film producer acknowledged that it would be sad for her to bid farewell to her old home base, but she felt it was the right time to consolidate her network’s operations under one roof.
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ReplyDeleteEvery time I hear, see or read something about Oprah I think of Frank Perdue and LMAO.
ReplyDeleteLook what those Welfare donations built for her....
ReplyDeleteMY GOD...that is your tax dollars there...
Because as KING OBAMA SAID.." you did not build that Opyyyyy"
Hoes and rats, oh my!
ReplyDelete1;26 there is no comparison.And Oprah leaving liberal land for kook liberal land,I don't get it.
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ReplyDeleteIt's obvious that you aren't aware of Oprah's interview with Frank years ago on a Baltimore TV station. Nor, what the conversation evolved into.
All the white liberals kissed her butt and gave her money and fame. Then as I knew she would turned on all the stupid whites and comes out hating them. Waiting for her to change her name.
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ReplyDeleteEver since she campaigned for OweBama in 2008 her empire has been slipping. She's still banking it but the momentum changed directions. She ticked off a lot of her audience of folks with jobs, cash and the ability to be home watching.