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Dayton area weighs in on the end of Oprah on TV
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Updated 1:06 PM Friday, November 20, 2009
Some in the Dayton area reacted with satisfaction and others reacted with disappointment Thursday night, Nov. 19, to the announcement that Oprah Winfrey’s television talkie, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” will end in September 2011.
“Who’s going to give away cars, now?” Matt Slusher, 22, of Kettering asked in reference to the episode when Winfrey gave every member of her studio audience a new GM car.
To Fairborn resident Helen Roth, 48, the news was welcome.
“That pleases me to death,” she said of learning about the show’s apparent demise.
“I think she overstates the obvious. Working people don’t get to watch her anyway. The people she talks to are mostly stay at home, old, or unemployed. She’s just a movie star and is very shallow.”
Michael Locke, 48, of Germantown, said, “I’ve seen cool things on Oprah. Dan Millman, author of “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” was on there. I’ve enjoyed the show. But change is constant.”
West Carrollton resident Jim Phalen, 60, was more blunt.
“I’ve never really cared for her,” he said. “She has too many people thinking what she says is gospel. It isn’t.”
Pat Mazeika of Kettering was disappointed to hear about Winfrey’s departure.
“I think she presents a lot of interesting topics to people, particularly to women,” said Mazeika, 56. “She needs to be accessible to as many people as possible.”
Jimmy Batchelor, 42, also of Kettering, has been a Winfrey fan for years.
“I’ve been amazed at how much good she’s done and how many people she’s touched,” he said.
A “surprise” pregnancy curbed Penny Campbell’s viewing of the show a couple of years ago. Campbell, 44, said that although she watched the show in the past, daytime TV viewing now mostly consists of Nickelodeon and Noggin.
“I love Oprah, she’s great,” the Oakwood nurse and mother said.
The news about Winfrey was a shock to Stephanie Hows, 20, of Kettering.
“I don’t watch but it’s still surprising,” she said. “She’s been on forever.”
Chicago-based Harpo Production Inc. announced that the iconic show will end after 25 seasons on the air.
Winfrey plans to announce the final date for the show on a live broadcast Friday, Nov. 20, according to the production company.
Winfrey started her broadcasting career in Nashville and Baltimore before relocating to Chicago in 1984 to host WLS-TV’s morning talk show “A.M. Chicago.” That show was renamed “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1985.
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