Oprah winfrey - Fan Base
The viewership for The Oprah Winfrey Show was highest during the 1991-1992 season, when about 13.1 million U.S. viewers were watching each day. By 2003 ratings declined to 7.4 million daily viewers. Ratings briefly rebounded to approximately 9 million in 2005 and then declined again to around 7.3 million viewers in 2008, though it remained the highest rated talk show. In 2008, Winfrey's show was airing in 140 countries internationally and seen by an estimated 46 million people in the US weekly According to the Harris poll, Winfrey was America's favorite television personality in 1998, 2000, 2002–2006, and 2009. Winfrey was especially popular among women, Democrats, political moderates, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Southern Americans and East Coast Americans.
Outside the U.S., Winfrey has become increasingly popular in the Arab world. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2007 that MBC 4, an Arab satellite channel, centered its entire programming around reruns of her show because it was drawing record numbers of female viewers in Saudi Arabia. In 2008 the New York Times reported that The Oprah Winfrey Show, with Arabic subtitles, was broadcast twice each weekday on MBC 4. Winfrey's modest dress, combined with her attitude of triumph over adversity and abuse has caused some women in Saudi Arabia to idealize her.
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Winfrey filming in Denmark in 2009.
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Philanthropy
Oprah has furthered her reputation for generosity through gifts. In 2004, every person in her Oprah show audience was given a new car (donated by General Motors). Some 302 "ultimate fans" accompanied Oprah to Australia (donated by Australian tourism bodies). In Australia, Oprah gave away $1 million worth of computer gear to a needy school (donated by IBM and Hewlett Packard). She gave away $250,000 to a cancer sufferer and his family (donated by Xbox). She also donated 6,000 pearl necklaces (donated by West Australian pearl producer MG Kailis) and 6,000 diamond pendants (donated by Rio Tinto).
Oprah has furthered her reputation for generosity through gifts. In 2004, every person in her Oprah show audience was given a new car (donated by General Motors). Some 302 "ultimate fans" accompanied Oprah to Australia (donated by Australian tourism bodies). In Australia, Oprah gave away $1 million worth of computer gear to a needy school (donated by IBM and Hewlett Packard). She gave away $250,000 to a cancer sufferer and his family (donated by Xbox). She also donated 6,000 pearl necklaces (donated by West Australian pearl producer MG Kailis) and 6,000 diamond pendants (donated by Rio Tinto).
In 1998, Winfrey created the Oprah's Angel Network, a charity that supported charitable projects and provided grants to nonprofit organizations around the world. Oprah's Angel Network raised more than $80,000,000 ($1 million of which was donated by Jon Bon Jovi). Winfrey personally covered all administrative costs associated with the charity, so 100% of all funds raised went to charity programs. The charity stopped accepting donations in May 2010 and was later dissolved. Winfrey's show raises money through promotion of her public charity and she personally donates more of her own money to charity than any other performer in America. In 2005 she became the first black person listed by Business Week as one of America's 50 most generous philanthropists, having given an estimated $303 million as of 2007. Winfrey was the 32nd most philanthropic. By 2012 she had given away about $400 million to educational causes.She has also been repeatedly ranked as the most philanthropic celebrity.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Oprah created the Oprah Angel Network Katrina registry which raised more than $11 million for relief efforts. Winfrey personally gave $10 million to the cause. Homes were built in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama before the one year anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. As of 2012, Winfrey had also given over 400 scholarships to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Winfrey was the recipient of the first Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the 2002 Emmy Awards for services to television and film. To celebrate two decades on national TV, and to thank her employees for their hard work, Winfrey took her staff and their families (1065 people in total) on vacation to Hawaii in the summer of 2006.
South Africa
In 2004, Winfrey and her team filmed an episode of her show, Oprah's Christmas Kindness , in which Winfrey travelled to South Africa to bring attention to the plight of young children affected by poverty and AIDS. During the 21-day trip, Winfrey and her crew visited schools and orphanages in poverty-stricken areas, and distributed Christmas presents to 50,000 children, with dolls for the girls and soccer balls for the boys, and school supplies. Throughout the show, Winfrey appealed to viewers to donate money to Oprah's Angel Network for poor and AIDS-affected children in Africa. From that show alone, viewers around the world donated over $7,000,000. Winfrey invested $40 million and some of her time establishing the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Henley on Klip south of Johannesburg, South Africa. The school set over 22 acres, opened in January 2007 with an enrollment of 150 pupils (increasing to 450) and features state-of-the-art classrooms, computer and science laboratories, a library, theatre and beauty salon. Nelson Mandela praised Winfrey for overcoming her own disadvantaged youth to become a benefactor for others. A minority of critics considered the school elitist and unnecessarily luxurious.
Winfrey, who has no surviving biological children, described maternal feelings towards the girls at Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls: Winfrey teaches a class at the school via satellite.
Producer
2011 - Serving Life (TV documentary) (executive producer)
2011 - Extraordinary Mom (TV documentary) (executive producer)
2011 - Your OWN Show (TV series) (executive producer)
2010 - The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special (TV movie) (executive producer)
2009 - Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special (TV special) (executive producer)
2009 - Precious (executive producer)
2009 - The Dr. Oz Show (TV series) (executive producer)
2007 - The Great Debaters (producer)
2007 - Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day (TV movie) (executive producer)
2007 - Building a Dream: The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy (TV documentary) (executive producer)
2007 - The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special (TV movie) (executive producer)
2007 - Oprah's Big Give (TV series) (executive producer)
2006 - Legends Ball (TV documentary) (executive producer)
2005 - Their Eyes Were Watching God (TV movie) (executive producer)
2002 - Oprah After the Show (TV series) (executive producer)
2001 - Amy & Isabelle (TV movie) (executive producer, producer)
1999 - Tuesdays with Morrie (TV movie) (executive producer)
1998 - David and Lisa (TV movie) (executive producer)
1998 - Beloved (producer)
1998 - The Wedding (TV miniseries) (executive producer)
1997 - Before Women Had Wings (TV movie) (producer)
1993 - Michael Jackson Talks to... Oprah Live (TV special) (executive producer)
1993 - ABC Afterschool Specials (TV series) (producer - 1 episode "Shades of a Single Protein") (producer)
1992 - Overexposed (TV movie) (executive producer)
1992 - Nine (TV documentary) (executive producer)
1989 - The Women of Brewster Place (TV miniseries) (executive producer)
1989 - The Oprah Winfrey Show (supervising producer - 8 episodes, 1989–2011)
source: wikipedia
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