Talk to Me with Oprah Winfrey
Thursdays 10 AM, 4 PM, 10 PM ET
SIRIUS XM SATELLITE RADIO. OPRAH & FRIENDS CH. 156
Oprah Winfrey is an American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. According to Forbes magazine, she was the richest African American of the 20th century and the world’s only Black billionaire for three straight years. .Life magazine has ranked her as the most influential woman of her generation and Time magazine has ranked her as one of only four people to have shaped both the 20th century and the early 21st. In 2005, Business Week ranked her as the greatest Black philanthropist in American history.
On February 9, 2006 it was announced that Winfrey signed a $55 million, 3-year contract with XM Satellite Radio to establish a new radio channel. The channel will be called Oprah & Friends and will feature popular contributors to The Oprah Winfrey Show and ‘O’ Magazine including Nate Berkus, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Bob Greene, Dr. Robin Smith and Marianne Williamson. Oprah & Friends airs 24/7 on XM Radio Channel 156. Winfrey’s contract requires her to be on air 30 minutes a week, 39 weeks a year. The 30-minute weekly show will feature Winfrey with friend Gayle King. Winfrey’s audience is extremely loyal and XM hopes that the “Oprah Effect” can have the same effect on XM subscription sales that she does on the New York Times Best Seller list, thanks to her book club. The channel broadcasted from a new studio at Winfrey’s Chicago headquarters and went on the air at 11 AM ET, September 25th, 2006 on XM Channel 156.
