Harpo+Productions

Denequa Perry Radio/TV Business Operations

The company that I have chosen to do is Harpo Productions. The owner of this the infamous Oprah Winfrey. Harpo controls the entertainment interests of talk show host/actress/producer Oprah Winfrey. Harpo also produces feature films and made-for-TV movies and publishes "O", The Oprah Magazine with Hearst at a circulation of about 2.4 million.

Key financials for Hapro Inc.

Company Type              Private Fiscal Year End              December 2005 Sales (mil)            $290.0 1-Year Sales Growth     5.5% 2005 Employees           341

Key people and executives for Harpo Inc

Chairman                       Oprah Winfrey CFO                               Doug Pattison Director of Media           Lisa Halliday and Corporate Relations

Top competitors of Harpo Inc

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Harpo productions is also responsible for The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah After the Show, Dr. Phil, and the Rachael Ray Show and for radio it is responsible for Oprah & Friends

Talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, who worked in radio and television in Nashville and Baltimore during the 1970s and early 1980s, arrived in Chicago in 1984. Her Oprah Winfrey Show, which started in 1985, became one of the most popular talk shows on American television. In 1986, Winfrey founded Harpo Productions Inc., a production company that used her first name spelled backwards. In 1988, the company took full charge of Winfrey's show, which was produced in new facilities on the city's Near West Side. By the late 1990s, Winfrey's show had about 20 million regular viewers, and Harpo Productions had annual revenues of about $150 million with about 200 Chicago employees.