Richest TV creator (female)
- Who
- Oprah Winfrey
- What
- 2,700,000,000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- United States
- When
- 06 March 2018
The richest TV creator is Oprah Winfrey (USA), best known for the talk show she created and hosted from 1986 to 2011. Her personal fortune stands at $2.7 billion (£1.95 billion) according to estimates published by Forbes on 6 March 2018.
Known as the “Queen of all Media”, Oprah Winfrey rose from an impoverished background in Jim-Crow-era Mississippi to become one of the wealthiest self-made women in America. She began her media career reading the news for a local radio station, before becoming an anchor at a TV station in Nashville, Tennessee, in the early 1970s. She took over a struggling Chicago-area talk show in 1983 and turned it into a major ratings success. It was soon renamed the Oprah Winfrey Show and was syndicated nationally from 1986.
Today Winfrey is the chairwoman and CEO of both cable TV channel the Oprah Winfrey Network and her production company Harpo Productions.