Oprah Winfrey has said that one regret in life was her decision to establish her basic cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), instead of taking a break after retirement.
The media mogul disclosed this to Al Roker in a conversation during her appearance on Today.
She stated: “I would not have taken on the responsibility of trying to build a network while still ending the show. That is my one regret… I should have handled all of that differently, I think. I should have completed one thing, taken a year to do nothing, and then decided what was the next thing for me to do.”
The queen of daytime television had a breakthrough when she departed Nashville, TN, to pursue a career in Baltimore, MD.
While working with the local news, she landed her syndicated show. The show was dubbed “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
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Oprah’s award-winning talk series, The Oprah Winfrey Show, made its debut on September 8, 1986.
After 29 seasons and 4,561 episodes, the show ended on May 25, 2011.
The success of Winfrey’s show was proven in its viewership numbers, drawing in about 40 million viewers weekly and being viewed in 145 countries, Oprah.com mentioned.
Through the show, Winfrey scaled her presence in the media landscape, which gave birth to the launch of The Oprah Magazine in 2000.
When the show ended in 2011 after 25 seasons, she cemented it with her personal cable network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
Which was officially launched on January 1, 2011. Oprah, who is now a billionaire, reflected on her career trajectory in a conversation with A. Roker.
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In doing so, she admited her decision to launch the network while retiring from the show was her “one regret.”
She continued, “I’d made a decision that it was time for the show to end. I don’t regret that. What I do regret is trying to do multiple things at the same time. I would have done the thing that I tell everybody else to do: ‘When you don’t know what to do, do nothing. Get still with yourself and do nothing.’ I would have given myself that time.”
