Oprah Makes Surprise Visit to WJZ TV 13

Oprah Makes Surprise Visit to WJZ TV 13

BALTIMORE, April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey made a surprise visit to WJZ TV 13 today (Monday, April 10), visiting former colleagues and friends at the Television Hill studios for the first time since leaving Baltimore more than 20 years ago for Chicago.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060410/PHM056 )

Winfrey joined WJZ 13 in 1978, hired to co-anchor a new, hour-long newscast with the late local media icon Jerry Turner. In August of that year she was paired with Richard Sher, co-anchoring "People Are Talking," a one-hour, daily magazine-style talk show.

This afternoon, Oprah visited with old friends she worked with at WJZ and reminisced about her early talk show career days in Baltimore. WJZ's Richard Sher said, "It was a thrill to see Oprah back in the WJZ newsroom where we worked together for so many years." Oprah told Sher "the saying is you can't go home again, but the reception I received today shows you really can."

Oprah left WJZ 13 on December 18, 1983 to become the host of "AM Chicago," a daily half-hour talk show on WLS-TV, the ABC station in Chicago.

The program was expanded to an hour on September 18, 1986 and renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show."

As Oprah was busy waving goodbye to station friends several called out, "If we knew you were coming we'd have crab cakes for you." Oprah responded, "next time" as she pulled away to prepare for her speaking engagement at a fundraising event for Temple Beth Tfiloh Dahan community school.

WJZ 13 is the CBS Television Station in Baltimore.

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Source: WJZ TV 13 CBS Baltimore

CONTACT: Liz Chuday for WJZ TV 13 CBS Baltimore, +1-410-464-1100

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