Oprah spokesman denies definite plan to move show exists
Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood said Winfrey will announce the move in the next few weeks. It would take place when the talk show’s syndication contract ends in 2011.
In addition, Finke wrote, Winfrey will take her show off broadcast TV and move it to the Oprah Winfrey Network, a cable channel she is setting up with Discovery Communications.
Winfrey spokesman Don Halcombe denied a definitive plan exists, insisting “she has not made a decision yet” about her show’s future beyond 2011. He affirmed her earlier promise of an announcement by year’s end.
While Winfrey still keeps a Chicago condo for when her show’s in production, in recent years she’s spent increasingly more time at her estate in Santa Barbara, Calif.
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” has been based in Chicago since its national launch in 1986. At her Michigan Avenue street party in September, she declared Chicago “the most fabulous city in the world!”
Darel Jevens