Oprah's Empire | Taking Control | 2

Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As The Oprah Winfrey Show goes from strength to strength, Oprah Winfrey starts building her media empire by creating Harpo Productions.

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0:00.0	Want to get more from business movers?
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0:09.6	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:13.0	OneRoury.
0:15.0	Music It's September 8, 1986, at a television studio in Chicago, Illinois.
0:34.6	Entertainment lawyer Jeff Jacobs makes his way through the bustling backstage area,
0:38.8	a large bunch of flowers clutched in his hand. The television crew packs up equipment and
0:43.8	cleans up around him. The day's taping is complete, and the first nationally syndicated episode
0:49.1	of the Oprah Winfrey Show is in the can. Jeff has been Oprah Winfrey's agent since 1984, and thanks to his deal-making, Oprah's on course to earn more than $10 million this year.
1:00.4	But Jeff is convinced that she is barely scraping the surface of her potential.
1:05.0	He wends his way through the hallways of the studio until he emerges onto the set of the Oprah Winfrey show.
1:10.7	Sitting alone in one of the audience's chairs is the woman of the hour.
1:14.5	Jeff! Oprah, congratulations!
1:17.4	Jeff hands her the flowers.
1:19.2	These are for you.
1:20.3	Oh, thank you.
1:21.1	They're beautiful.
1:21.8	Did you watch?
1:22.8	Of course I watched.
1:23.8	It was wonderful.
1:24.5	You were wonderful.
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