ABC News: CHICAGO -- Eyewitness News has abstruse that Oprah will advertise on Friday that she has absitively to end her allocution show.Oprah told her agents of her accommodation during a aggregation affair on Thursday afternoon. The admiral of Harpo Studios notified media ally after Thursday.
She is expected to make a public announcement on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Friday.
The sun will set on the Oprah show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011.
Back in January of 2008, Oprah announced she was launching OWN -- The Oprah Winfrey Network.
It was widely expected that the TV talk queen would stop doing her syndicated program in September 2011 to focus on the cable network.
Winfrey started her broadcasting career in Nashville, Tenn., and Baltimore, Md., before relocating to Chicago to host WLS-TV's morning talk show "A.M. Chicago."
That show was renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and launched on September 8, 1986.
A year later, Winfrey established Harpo and her talk show went into syndication. In 1990, Winfrey opened Harpo Studios in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood.
The president of Harpo, Inc. issued a statement to stations that carry the Oprah show about her announcement.
"As we all know, Oprah's personal comments about this on tomorrow's live show will mark an historic television moment that we will all be talking about for years to come," wrote Tim Bennett.
Oprah is seen every weekday at 4:00 on Channel 7.
