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Excelling in school even with a childhood troubled with rebellion and abuse, Oprah Winfrey received a full college scholarship and won the Miss Black Tennessee contest when she was eighteen. The next year she began to work as a news anchor in Nashville. In 1976, after earning her college degree, she moved to a position with an ABC news affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1977 began co-hosting a local morning show.
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Oprah moved to Nashville to live with her father after her mother tried to put her into a detention home. She was denied from the detention home only because the beds were filled. However, when moved to her father at first she did not stop her wild behavior until after she had gotten pregnant and lost her baby boy at the age of fourteen. Afterwards, she became devoted to a better life for herself and got on the right path.
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By age 19, Oprah was hired by WTVF-TV in Nashville as a reporter/anchor, and later found her calling in a talk show called "People Are Talking." In January 1984, she came to Chicago to host WLS-TV's "AM Chicago," a faltering local talk show. In less than a year, she turned it into the hottest program in town, which was soon renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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