Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential television show hosts, is bring back her annual Oscar show and will be celebrating the 82nd year of the Academy Awards. ” brought by Oprah’s production company Harpo Productions, in conjunction with ABC will have Oprah interviewing the biggest stars in Hollywood.

The expected settings are to be intimate and casual and will air the week prior to the Academy Awards which will air on March 7th.

The date and time of this year’s “The Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special” will be March 3rd at 10:00 ET and will surely be watched by millions. Oprah, the brand, is a winner on the small screen and commands an audience that will cause advertisers to fall all over themselves trying to get some of that prime advertising space.

While dollar figures are not to be expected to rival the Super Bowl, the numbers will be very strong and this show is expected to be the most watched of the evening.  Oprah has made herself one of the most popular and clean marketing brands with her award winning TV show, a popular magazine, “O”, and has made multi-millionaires out of Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz.

Oprah even has a store where you can buy all things Oprah as well as a book club where she advertises all manner of things.

This gal from Baltimore has taken her pleasant personality, her enthusiam and her easy manner and turned it into a money machine!

Now, that is a true success story!

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