Oprah Winfrey attends the People's Choice awards in Pasadena in January 2004. Today she announced that the Oprah Winfrey Show will come to an end in September 2011, after exactly 25 years on air. She is to devote her time to launching a new TV channel, OWN, which will focus on women's issues.
Oprah Winfrey is giving up her hugely influential daytime chat show after quarter of a century on air