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The Oprah Winfrey Show to End
O
n November 20, 2009 on The Oprah one talk show for 23 consecutive seasons, Winfrey continued, “So, the countdown
Winfrey Show, Winfrey announced winning every sweep since its debut in to the end of The Oprah Winfrey Show
that she plans to end her show in Sep- 1986.** It is produced in Chicago by Har- starts now, and until that day in 2011 when
tember 2011 after 25 years on the air. The po Productions, Inc. and syndicated to it ends, I intend to soak up every meaning-
Oprah Winfrey Show will end its run as its 215 domestic stations by CBS Television ful, joy-filled moment with you.”
25th season draws to a close on Septem- Distribution and to 145 countries by CBS After production wraps on The Oprah
ber 9, 2011. Studios International. Winfrey Show, Winfrey plans to appear
Launched nationally in 1986, The Said Winfrey: “I love this show. This and participate in new programming for
Oprah Winfrey Show is viewed by an esti- show has been my life. And I love it OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a 24-
mated 42 million viewers each week in the enough to know when it’s time to say hour cable network that reflects her vision,
United States.* Oprah and The Oprah goodbye. Twenty-five years feels right in values and interests. The launch date for
Winfrey Show have received 48 Daytime my bones, and it feels right in my spirit. OWN, a joint venture with Discovery
Emmy Awards®, including the Lifetime It’s the perfect number—the exact right Communications, is now set for January
Achievement Award in 1998. The Oprah time. So I hope that you will take this 18- 2011.
Winfrey Show has remained the number month ride with me right through to the
final show.”
Beyoncé Knowles Will THE The Employment & Entrepreneur Magazine Your Career & Business Connection
Launch Her First Perfume
Edition II / S 2003
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 2
in February 2010
B
eyoncé Knowles is set to launch her first scent in February 2010.
Expected to earn $100 million in its first year alone, Heat is the first
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in a series of scents to be released by the superstar.
AFRICAN
AND ITS IMPACT
AMERICANS
ON THE AFRICAN
Although this isn’t the first time Beyoncé has been involved with
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AMERICAN MALE
AND ENERGY
promoting fragrances, it’s the first time she’s done so for herself. “When I
commit to something, I do it 100 percent, and I’ve never had [creative
control over a fragrance] until this project,” she told WWD. “I learned a
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lot of great things from the past — but I always asked myself, ‘If I could
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have my own scent, what would it be?’ I wasn’t worried about deadlines.
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It could have taken me three, four, however many years — this was my
ENGINEERING
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FROM CREATIVE
first fragrance, and I wanted to make sure that it was something I would
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love forever.”
Beyoncé came up with a blend of flowers, fruit, and spice. Her
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fragrance includes red vanilla orchid, magnolia, neroli and blush peach;
moves on to a heart of honeysuckle nectar, almond macaroon, and crème
de musk, and dries down with giant sequoia milkwood, tonka bean and
amber.
When the scent goes on sale in February, it will feature eau de parfum
Beyoncé graced
($39–$59) and a sparkling body lotion ($24). Until then, Beyoncé’s team is
promoting Heat with a teaser site that links to a Facebook apps and contest.
our cover in 2003
Will you check out Heat, or does this news leave you cold?
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