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Encyclopedia > Harpo Productions
The sign in front of Oprah Winfrey's Chicago based Harpo Studios.
The sign in front of Oprah Winfrey's Chicago based Harpo Studios.

Harpo Productions is an incorporated United States multimedia production company founded by television talk show host Oprah Winfrey (the name 'Harpo' is 'Oprah' spelled backwards). It also includes Harpo Films. It is based in Chicago. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (972x729, 142 KB) Description: American television talk show host, Oprah Winfreys] production studios, Harpo Studios main sign. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (972x729, 142 KB) Description: American television talk show host, Oprah Winfreys] production studios, Harpo Studios main sign. ... Incorporation (abbreviated Inc. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The term company may refer to a separate legal entity, as in English law, or may simply refer to a business, as is the common use in the United States. ... Talk Show Host is a song written and performed by Radiohead. ... Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ...

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Harpo productions

Television

Gloria Naylor (b. ... Gloria Naylors first novel The Women of Brewster Place was released as a TV miniseries in 1989. ... Karen Hall is a Hollywood screenwriter. ... The Oprah Winfrey Show (also known as Oprah) is an American nationally syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history. ... Oprah After the Show is an unscripted television show that acts as an extended version of The Oprah Winfrey Show. ... This article is about the TV series. ... Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is a talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in syndication in the United States and Canada on September 18, 2006. ...

Radio

Oprah and Friends is a talk radio channel programmed by Harpo Productions newly formed radio division, and is signed exclusively for XM Satellite Radio. ...

Recording Label

  • Harpo Records

Harpo films

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Research - Harpo, Inc. (472 words)
Oprah is the chairman of Harpo, Inc., Harpo Productions, Inc., Harpo Films, Inc., Harpo Video, Inc and Harpo Studios, Inc. For the purposes of this research project I will focus on Harpo, Inc. Oprah began her broadcasting at WVOL radio career in Nashville, while still in high school.
Produced by her own production company, Harpo Productions, Inc., the show is seen by an estimated 30 million viewers a week in the United States** and is broadcast internationally in 109 countries.
Employees of the parent company of Winfrey's production studio, Harpo Inc., are barred from talking or writing about Winfrey's personal or business affairs and those of her company for the rest of their lives.
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