Oprah Winfrey is the most famous announcer in the history of american television. She is one of the persons who challenged their selves and the bad conditions in their life to achieve their dreams.

Early Life
She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to an unmarried teenage mother and father. Her mother, Vernita Lee was a housemaid.
Winfrey's biological father is usually noted as Vernon Winfrey a coal miner turned barber turned city councilman who had been in the Armed Forces when she was born.
After Winfrey's birth, her mother traveled north and Winfrey spent her first six years living in rural poverty with her maternal grandmother, Hattie Mae.
Her grandmother taught her to read before the age of three and took her to the local church.
At age six, Winfrey moved to an inner-city neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her mother, who was less supportive and encouraging than her grandmother had been, largely as a result of the long hours she worked as a maid.

work life
She won an oratory contest which helped her to join Tennessee State University where she studied communication. Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store.
She attracted the attention of the local black radio station, WVOL, which hired her to do the news part-time. She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of college.
Winfrey's career choice in media would not have surprised her
grandmother. who had encouraged her to speak in public.

Television's Work
she was both the youngest news anchor and the first black female news anchor at Nashville's WLAC-TV. She moved to Baltimore's WJZ-TV in 1976 to co-anchor the six o'clock new.
She was then recruited to join Richard Sher as co-host of WJZ's local talk show People Are Talking, which premiered on August 14, 1978.
in 1983, Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host WLS-TV's low-rated half-hour morning talk show, AM Chicago. The first episode aired on January 2, 1984.
In the early years of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the program was classified as a tabloid talk show. In 1993, Winfrey hosted a rare prime-time interview with Michael Jackson, which became the fourth most-watched event in American television history as well as the most watched interview ever, with an audience of 36.5 million. Winfrey has also co-authored five books.
On February 9, 2006, it was announced that Winfrey had signed a three-year, $55-million contract with XM Satellite Radio to establish a new radio channel.