See how Oprah Winfrey started her career, watch her first audition video

   

By 1986, the show was renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show", which was broadcast nationally, again shooting to the top of the ratings.

“In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of ample bulk. As interviewers go, she is no match for, say, Phil Donahue... What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plain-spoken curiosity, robust humour and, above all empathy," said TIME magazine.