{"id":6983,"date":"2012-01-12T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/oprah-winfrey-glad-to-break-tether-from-talk-show-chair\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T18:36:52","slug":"oprah-winfrey-glad-to-break-tether-from-talk-show-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/oprah-winfrey-glad-to-break-tether-from-talk-show-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey glad to break tether from talk show chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HENLEY ON KLIP, South Africa<\/span> Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Oprah<br \/>\nWinfrey feels a new freedom after leaving her wildly successful<br \/>\ndaily TV talk show behind and taking a new course seeking<br \/>\ninterviews with newsmakers on their own turf.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love the freedom of not being tethered to that chair and<br \/>\nhaving to do an interview based upon filling a quota on a number<br \/>\nof shows,&#8221; Winfrey told Reuters in South Africa, where she will<br \/>\nattend at the weekend the first graduation of high school<br \/>\nseniors from her Oprah Winfrey Leadership for Girls.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Less than a year after she ended &#8220;The Oprah Winfrey Show&#8221; in<br \/>\nMay after 25 years on air, Winfrey launched the once a week<br \/>\n&#8220;Oprah&#8217;s Next Chapter&#8221; in January on her fledgling cable TV<br \/>\nchannel OWN.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have 200 shows a year to do, you do a lot of<br \/>\nthings that you like and a lot of things you would, maybe, want<br \/>\nto pass on,&#8221; she said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Winfrey has interviewed Aerosmith leadman Steven Tyler for<br \/>\nthe show and visited Sean Penn in Haiti to see what he is doing<br \/>\nto help relief efforts in the impoverished country trying to<br \/>\nrebuild from a devastating 2010 earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oprah&#8217;s Next Chapter&#8221; has brought the best ratings ever for<br \/>\nthe Oprah Winfrey Network which has struggled to find an<br \/>\naudience. OWN said 1.6 million people watched Oprah chat last<br \/>\nSunday with U.S. televangelist Joel Osteen &#8212; a 220 percent<br \/>\nincrease on the audience in that time slot a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The show will soon take her to India, and China is also in<br \/>\nthe cards.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of this for me is getting to do exactly what I wanted<br \/>\nto do when I ended &#8216;The Oprah Show&#8217;.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Herskovitz HENLEY ON KLIP, South Africa Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Oprah Winfrey feels a new freedom after leaving her wildly successful daily TV talk show behind and taking a new course seeking interviews with newsmakers on their own turf. &#8220;I love the freedom of not being tethered to that chair and having to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}