Harpo Productions Company

HARPO Productions Inc. is a privately held company and it was founded by Oprah Winfrey and her lawyer Jeff Jacobs in 1986; a production company that used her first name spelled backwards. In 1988, the company took full charge of Winfrey’s show. It also includes HARPO Films and HARPO Radio, Inc. The facilities are on the city’s Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago and with additional offices in Los Angeles. In 1990s, “This Company had annual revenues of about $150 million with the number employees working for this company” (Encyclopedia of Chicago). The HARPO Productions, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of HARPO Entertainment Group. The organization has grown to include over 220 people, of whom 68 percent are women and has a modest turnover
Later, in January 1984, she began to host WLS-TV' program - a morning talk show in Chicago, which in September 1985 became "The Oprah Winfrey Show". According to Business Network BNET "on September 8, 1986. 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' was televised nationwide. Less than a year later, the program was ranked the top syndicated talk show in the United States.......In June 1987 the show received three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Host, Outstanding Talk/Service Program, and Outstanding Direction." The "Oprah Winfrey Show" stayed number one day time talk show for 12 years strait and winning twenty five Emmys plus seven that went to Oprah herself. Despite Oprah's difficult childhood, in 1988 she became "the first woman in the history to own and produce her own talk show".
Oprah understands that not everybody have means to help financially and therefore according to Look to The Stars, The World of Celebrity Giving "Oprah gave 300 members of her audience $1000 each to donate to a charity of their choice." Also, she encourages her viewers to help out in their own communities by donating time and