Early Oprah | Baltimore TV Years (1978-1981)
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- From the Mid Atlantic Media Archive, we share these rare raw feed masters of a 26 year old OPRAH WINFREY as co-host of Baltimore's PEOPLE ARE TALKING and News Anchor. One of the segments (at 7:50) includes what is safe to assume as Oprah's Network TV Acting debut, when she made a cameo on ABC's ALL MY CHILDREN, as a tie in with PAT's Soaps Week. Also included are some TV commercials from the era. Until footage from Oprah's stint at WLAC in Nashville surfaces, I'm pretty certain this ts the earliest and best looking footage of Ms. Winfrey on the web. Enjoy, comment, like and subscribe.
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The charismatic Oprah Winfrey has never ceased to amaze me, ever since I have started watching her show in the early 1990's!
Lol, that's when I QUIT watching! Early 90s; the day she held up a beautiful porcelain tea cup and saucer telling the audience that they should treat themselves to small beauties like this in their everyday life. It was only $100!
I was sitting there in a mobile home with two little kids I was raising alone. On food stamps, driving a beater, working my ass off cutting cedar logs for a living or working at a local sawmill in exchange for $5 an hour and the sawyer's wife watching my kids during work hours.
I thought, this b**** has no idea what the rest of us are going through! That was the last time I ever watched Oprah Winfrey intentionally.
Few years after that she went after the beef farming industry - that pissed me off & millions of others. Then she started her own religion and went on tour as a spiritual leader! I remember when this happened and it was outrageous to me - what an ego LOL! Oprah caught a lot of flak about it and since the internet arrived, I've tried to find information on that incident and it is absolutely not there; she's erased it.
The appearance of her own magazine, with her heavily airbrushed self on the cover of every issue was just ludicrous to me. It boggles my mind that people gravitate to this crazy egomaniac!
A scary thought to me is that she'll want to get into high political office. And that people are just foolish enough to elect a feel-good master manipulator who thinks she knows better about how I should live my life than I do.
Ok. Well. Like we have now, lol. Only Biden's more a puppet of whoever is running that party. The same guy that went against the constituency at the party nominations and deep sixxed Bernie Sanders in favor of hated shrew, Hillary Clinton, because it was "her turn".
Sorry to digress! I'm old & easily distracted. It's kind of what happens when you live a long time & see a lot of things. You carry them around in your head & relate them to other things. 🤓
Oprah has always had such luscious hair
+Thehoneyeffect:
She does...such thick, beautiful black curls to go with those big brown eyes of hers.
Seriously? 🤨🤭
@@marcathens2951 Typical comment from your kind.
And a sell out
More young people need to see these kind of footages. It shows people from diverse backgrounds working together. This is America.
I agree. I remember she had some of the best advice from her book for starting tv reporters. It was really good! Loved her show!
Oprah is the worst example. Learn more about her. This is all for show. She doesn’t even want to be black.
but not reality
No. It’s what america SHOULD BE, but really isn’t. I’m sure they talked about her behind her back and in front her face. The laughing and fun on the outside is not reality. Sorry
@@jimmcdonald9490 Yeah. That's why Oprah is a big nobody now. Systemic racism kept her down!
The poor, deprived, powerless minority population of black Americans is what skyrocketed her to fame and made her billions of dollars!
I like this Oprah better than today's Oprah!
Damn..... Her afro was A1
Harold Edwards was it a wig
nickelwindow53 No, that’s what hair styles people had in the 70’s
@@nickelwindow53 No wig that was her hair.She always had a lot of hair
I remember watching her on the local news in Baltimore as a child in the 1980s,those were much better times in Maryland.
When black women were proud of their natural hair 😢
DAMN OPRAH CAME A LONG WAY I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW SHE ROCK A NICE FRO BACK N’ THE DAY.
FROprah. Nothing but love for Ms. Winfrey. Bootstrapped her way through adversity to become a legend. Watching this, who then knew? Legend.
Oprah has said she used to imitate Barbra Walters when she was a young anchor. This video exceeded my expectations.
Barbara Walters only Barbra I am aware of is Barbra Streisand.
0:53 The violin music at the beginning of this video is called "Living For the City" from the 1977 album "Phantazia" by Noel Pointer. He was an amazing black, jazz violinist.
I love Mr. Noel Pointer Jazz Music🎻
Thank you for sharing, vidform.
Thank you, I never knew this. I only remembered Stevie Wonder singing this, I think. It’s really a beautiful piece of music.
The original artist is Stevie Wonder, who wrote this song in 1973 and put it on his "Innervisions" album. Noel Pointer's version is an instrumental remake from 1977.
I especially like the commercial break from the early 1978 clip in its 16mm glory!(Luvs,the carpet store and cough syrup commercial with the trick photography)
I don't know who's afro was better, his or hers?
His is wrong color makes him look older.
Love it!
Yes!!! Love the fros!!
thank you so much for posting this I have seen very short clips of Oprah anchoring and it is so cool to see her back then.
I follow Oprah on Instagram so I sent this to her. I'm sure her assistant to read the Instagram messages will hopefully send it to her that she might have a copy in the archives
Incredible to look back and see where people start it. Oprah and the others. Could you imagine being able to look back and see where Christ started. He’s the Lamb of God takes away the sins of the world. He said himself without him nothing would be possible. Now with the pandemic things have changed and people are suffering unfortunately. Give thanks day to God
It's funny how some of us looked older when we were actually younger..You ever look at an old picture and think..I look older there than I do currently.. Oprah looks exactly the same.. Just a different time.
😂Right
No she doesn't
Always had a thick head of hair.
She does not stfu she look way older cuz she is idiot
2:04 Barbara is a legend in Southeastern Virginia media circles. She currently produces and hosts a show at a local NPR station. Pretty cool to see footage of her early days in the biz, back when Oprah was a Baltimore tv personality.
Boy, She has come a long way since her days on Television Hill
I remember August 1978 so well because I was living at a foster home in Compton California celebrating my 15th birthday. A few months later, that November, Jim Jones lead a bunch of his followers to commit suicide. That was a memorable year
I was also in a Foster Home in 1978. I was a 10 Years of aged little girl during 1978. Staring at my Parent's Television 📺 Set. Of all of those lifeless Bodies laying there on the grounds of Guyana.🤦🏾♀️
Wow this is pretty cool to see Oprah's humble beginnings!
Before she sold out and said she didn’t want to be black. Then she started exploiting her own kind and killing kids in other countries. Almost makes you wonder if this is the same lady! The same lady who judged rappers for using the b word and then she kissing all up on Harvey Weinstein.
Also this is before WLS-TV Chicago got her initially for their newscasts and AM Chicago. It's crazy how Oprah started out.
I love the static sound in the background, miss it.
Is this this the time when Oprah came to her life changing realization that she'd better off as a talk show host instead of an anchor? She said that her a-ha moment was interviewing an ice cream guy character in All My Children.
I thought they just demoted her because they said she wasn’t very good.
@@willedpower3291 From what I understand, this was the demotion. She was the anchor.
@@TheSuperk25 the demotion was the talk show. She loved it show much that she went on to find opportunities in Chicago for her own talk show.
Yes, it was a demotion, but the realization came because of that. It was an unintentional realization.
Many legendary careers began in Baltimore and Maryland that you might find hard to believe!
Why would you find it hard to believe, if you can make it in Baltimore you can make it anywhere
All i can say is that she KNEW!
She surely did. She always pretends like it just happened or it was luck, but she always put herself in the right places and was very determined to rise to the top. It makes people root for you more when you pretend it was just luck.
All the women who were Producers in this video worked on the Oprah show. Sherry's kids are Oprah's Goddaughters.
Wow. Who knew? It pays to be kind to Ppl, co-workers included.
DAMN! I was in my prime during these years!!!
I WASN'T ALIVE LMAO UNTIL 89
I LOVE Oprah's hair here. I wish she'd rock an Afro again.
2dasimmons I wish that all black people would be proud of their natural hair
Yes. That day is coming but white supremacy aka racism/colonialism will have to be eliminated 1st. THAT will take DIVINE INTERVENTION. HALLELUYAH!
The Afro for her is played out she fine the way she is but the youngstas are bringing it back!
@@wanderer34 💯
She looks great with her most recent wild wave style although yes, the Afro was cute on her...Oprah's cute, period.
Thank you for posting. I have not seen much videos of Oprah Winfrey before she debuted with her own talk show. Oprah Winfrey is beautiful, and beautiful Black Natural hair! Date Stamp: 20nov21
Nice and neat looking not wild😊
Look at her now..Billionaires 😍🥰🌺🦋🤗
I met Oprah when I was in elementary school at Hilton Elementary School. She hosted a Christmas show we in the gifted program wrote. She was kinda scary, and grumpy. I was in the 4th grade.
Baltimore 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Im from Baltimore, I remember her on the show. I think that is why I was never under her spell bc I remember her when she was just a talk show host on local Tv.
Spell?😭😭
+@Cynthia Dickerson:
Yes, thank you, *Cynthia!* Oprah has worked hard for her huge success.
+@@0BRAINS0:
You can admire somebody without being "star-struck."
Big Brown Eyes Oprah has *earned* worldwide admiration, not only for her huge success, but for her kind, huge heart and never letting her earned wealth spoil her.
@@Coryraisa yeah, I met her when I was a kid. She was racist then towards anyone other than African Americans and I bet nothing has changed. But you know so much more than me so by all means, fill us all in with the juicy details about your personal friendship with the woman.....
+@@0BRAINS0:
Yes...she's truly lovely and *unprejudiced,* especially today, *UniteAllTribes.*
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used to see her in mid 70's, she was a lot different in many ways
TIC TOC
How so?
Wow the hair is so nice i love it nice to see
Wayment! Never seen Oprah with the beautiful fro 😍
Before, she went all Hollywood!
Holy fuck... times have changed. The narrator addressing that the women are single. Imagine the uproar today. I am 29
She never aged
wow, Oprah looks stunning to say the least. Beautiful hair. Real good reporter, on top of being a beautiful woman. She's easy on the eyes.
Loving that afro Oprah, reminds me of the one I wore at 16-17. He got some kinda fro too. She is doing very well reading from her notes, no teleprompters then I guess.
Oprah knew she wanted more out of life. Thats why she moved to Chicago for more ! That's crazy how that man preach to his students in Chicago, but Oparh got the message!
I remember those days very well...
'People call in when they don't like a guest or like a guest' - the moment I realized they are in a different time.
Lauryn Hill time machine a.k.a Oprah Winfrey in People Are Talking ( 1978 - 1981) will get 100% pass. Strong resemblance.
I was thinking the same thing!!
totally recall when Rox said that singer Leela James looks like Lady O. We thought LJ looks more like Ms. Hill. The tri-connection.
How DIFFERENT SHE LOOKED!!She BLEACHED his skin tone & changing his NOSE.
Love the hairstyles
Love the phones the hair styles and clothes.
Baltimore had the real Oprah before she went Hollywood!
EXACTLY
Oprah actually went Chicago, not Hollywood.
And Oprah has become *more* real over the years as her confidence has grown.
She's stopped allowing herself to be fat-shamed and stopped feeling so "ugly."
@@Coryraisa Shes full of shit
@@Coryraisa hah. Your concept of real is extremely misguided and confused.
@@cpilfold420:
Maybe some, but Oprah Brown Eyes is Chicago all the way.
I want a Snoopy phone! Lol! I'm a 46 year-old little girl! Lol!
11:45-some Guy :Aaaaah so your going to be a staaar?
😅Umh yeah pretty much the most famous woman on earth
Her Afro is great. i bet she would NEVER wear it today because she wouldn't to offend Hollywood by being a Black woman to them. smh
MANE WHAT!
Not many people are wearing Afros, these days, are they? Plus she’s worn dreadlocks, etc so...
Humble beginnings...
Oprah looks like Evelyn Champagne King. They could be sisters. I guess they are. lol
D GRIFF
She kind of does..never thought about it.m
EXACTLY!!!!!!! HAHAHAHABH IKR!!!!! I thought it from the very beginning!! :D XD
@@arushilovesmusic The first time I saw Oprah, my child’s eyes fooled me into thinking she was Evelyn Champagne King.
@@Msboochie2 Hahah, Same here... They both look soo similar!!
She looks just like
Oprah Winfrey been threw the storm of t.v.
Do
Hey, it’s gale king
Very professional u are i must say i love it nice to see
Nice afros on the hosts.
This was oprah after her best.....everybody loves Oprah theme song. Debbie Demio as executive producer. Audiences are different today.. oprah was a more genuine person before all the money changed her.... I miss this oprah
As an aside: that Firestone story - the 500 Radial at the centre of that terrible scandal was manufactured on equipment designed to produce crossply tyres to save retooling costs. The construction of radial ply tyres relies on critical manufacturing techniques and tolerances to produce a safe tyre. It was tantamount to mass murder.
This is just like a (bad) SCTV segment. The guys even looks like Eugene Levy!
Art Kern also worked for KPIX in 1984
Those same humble creative hardworking people would today be cellphone toting, gym enthusiastic ego maniacs in love with themselves...what a difference a few decades make!!
He he asks oprah: "so you want to be a star"? If only he knew she would become one of the most influential celebrities/stars in the world by influencing an entire generation, because she influenced their mother's while they were raising their children. Thus, they were raised very differently.
People are talking.
Notice how dark skinned,oprah was back then.
Lucindia Galloway skin bleaching
Oh ignorant one, lighting was different back then.
Porka Pigfeet ain't bleaching she's done what Jamaican foolish females call *_"Toning"._* No disrespect to *_"THE REAL JAMAICAN WOMEN"_* who love themselves.
Lighting has not changed much since then (1980s), the same type of light-boxes are used and LED lights of today are calibrated to match fluorescent light in light-boxes for videography.
Okra Pigmeat has had the lightened look for a while now. Not saying she's a beige bitch. But she had said in an interview she wanted to be a Cave Bitch (white) when she was younger. So she assimilated & toned her black ass to the Cave Beast Vampires.
Y’all truly don’t know what skin bleaching looks like.
There are much better cameras today, than there was 30 years ago. Cameras historically, going back hundreds of years ago, before color, were made by white people, to accurately capture white people. Cameras historically have never been flattering to black people. Always making them appear much darker than they really are. This is because cameras were made by white people, and were made to be flattering to Caucasians. They only tested the cameras on white people, before they made them commercially available. They never tested them with black people until recently. And they still aren't perfect at capturing darker skin tones.
"That's right..he's gonna be Mayor!"
Oprah!
Big hair was the thing in the 70s and Early 80s.
Before the child trafficking
When did she team up with Harvey W?
I hate everyones generic news anchor voices. Its so bland and boring.
Back when she was just a person, before she was Oprah Fukkin Winfrey.
Exactly
I was actually in the audience when The Sun paper was talking about old TV shows... She signaled me I was talking too long... I still talk too much.
So we just gonna ignore her giving massa a rub down?
22:00
I didn't. Came to the comments to find THIS comment. Thanks
😂😂Yo he looks like he is trying to stop her like look were still live stop it🙅♀️🤦♀️😂😂😭😭😭
You sold your soul Oprah !
Exactly
I want to know the producer or the executive that she went to to ask about the pay discrepancy between her and Richard because he was making $50,000 and she was making $20,000 and they told her why should she make more because she's not married and she doesn't own a house nor does she have kids. Did you see how they introduced every single woman on this show they talked about their marital status and if they had kids or not not their qualifications for the job but the role as what they thought women should be absolutely disgusting
Why do Oprah's eyes look so different now. Was it just because she was younger or did she has plastic surgery.
L tilli
That woman looks the same...Eye lashes and make up is better today than in 1978..especially for people of color
@@loveyu2778 true, I doubt she had plastic surgery. It's just crazy how different she looks now. But it was a long time ago and you're right, make-up and editing make things look so different nowadays ...
No plastic surgery. She was just younger back then...eyes often become droopier with age.
She had fewer wrinkles then...she aged gracefully.
I love how her thick brows grew more mobile.
Cute how when her thick brows went up she had three little short pleats in her forehead back then in her twenties.
Today in her sixties, she now has seven deeper pleats lined across her forehead when her brows rise...it's cute.
Makeup contouring that makes it look like her nose has a bridge--as many people of African descent have a flat nose. This makes her eyes look closer together. This is done by a makeup artist.
+@@RS-dm4yo:
How true! And with today's technology, many pictures can be photoshopped.
Wrinkles are often photoshopped away also.
Oh dear, those hairstyles were so unflattering. Nothing wrong with the afro but that one was like a square. Oprah sure got her hair game on track since then.
That fro looks great, not one hair out of place
@@marvinhagler4721 That is impressive, just some of those shapes!
Principal at 19:37 is baked
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For i had always love u baby form a long time a go but i always yours to say that i am no good for u because i am poor not educated but wen i beginning to understand my capablelyty and what I can do if i really put my mind to it so i start to study spiritually than it beginning to open my mind so i came form a very low estate so i tell my self it is possible so i never look back since then and i am giving thanks not there yet Bu i am humble and all ways willing to learn yah so i am a very determined person and i love to be challenge yes i don't believe in i can't make it always believe in trying yah
Only if Oprah would have stayed Baltimore Strong, she would have been the first Monique!
Yuck, become like that bitter, nasty, cold, jealous Mo 'Nique???
I don't think so! Oprah's way too sensitive for that and on top of it, Oprah's unique, not a rip-off of anyone else.
Whatever happened to Richard Sher?
He's still around. Still doing his square off show.
@@brickfacem109r9 oh that's a surprise. My guess was he had died decades ago. I wonder if he's bitter of Oprah's success.
He was serving as a volunteer once per week in the Maryland shock trauma unit in downtown Baltimore.
Its amazon that one of the richest women of color in the world from.my city and its no heat in baltimore city schools 🤔
Oprah isn’t from BMore, she’s from Mississippi. She worked at WJZ before moving on to Chicago...
I still remember her and Richard Sher on people are talking.
Oprah is DEFINITELY from Mississippi.
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Does Baltimore city have speech class to ?
From thousandaire to a billionaire....not bad
Even if they talk i really don't care about what people say yah because i love u and that's it if i love u and u love me so what we are both adult we are at the age of concent okay baby i am missing u greatly wow omg magical women
42:13 That was a nasty fall.
Im from Baltimore and remember People Are Talking. WJZ Channel 13 has been the no.1 station here since before I was born. They were very instrumental in ABC getting to the top spot in the rating circa 1975. WJZ was also a CBS affiliate when the Great Channel switch happened in 1981. CBS went from Channel 2 WMAR to Channel 11WBAL.. Then Channel 2 left CBS and partnered with ABC. Then guess what. Channel 11 and 13 switched back. 13 CBS and 11 went back to NBC. To this day I really don't know why they did all of that. One guess is there was always going to be at least 3 major networks and for a time in the mid 70's to 1984 NBC was bad, I mean Charlie Brown bad. Everything thep put on in prime time sucked and sucked bad. So, ib a business move to bring NBC up, the switch was made. Anyway. Richard Sher and Oprah made a great team and you can see the chemistry they had and it was obe of the reasons why 13 stayed on top. They had the best personel. Jerry Turner and Al Saunders, Randy Blair, Bob Turk, Gayle Gardner, Nick Charles, George Baughman and more. They were the heavy hitters and I always turned to them when the BIG stories occured. The helped a 12 year old wipe his tears when my beloved Orioles lost in the 1979 World Series. I still haven't gotten over it, but the crew helped to make Baltimore feel better. Those were great days, and no one saw what Oprah would become 10 years later. I thought a network anchor or national reporter, but certainly not Television Mogle and Entrepreneur. Nope...never saw that.. I remember when she made it big, Baltimore was still claiming her. Hahaha...by then she was Chicago and they claimed her. Still, those were great years and P.A.T. was a very good show. When Oprah left, it wasn't the same.
People Are Talking looks great, from what we could see in this. That was a time when intelligent and meaningful discussion could still be on TV - before the end of the Fairness Doctrine and limits on corporate ownership of broadcast outlets. The Reagan administration ruined TV and public discourse.
Oprah was a foxy lady
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Lol, this looks like an SCTV skit.
What is this intimation of her role in sex trafficking?
I am referring to a movie being pushed down by Hollywood and championed by Mel Gibson and Elon Musk.
The time when Oprah was B1 w/natural hair help richly melanated women to accept what the creator gave us= self-love;
sad thats gone now, but never fear 'we on it', THE WAR AGAINST SUPREMACY MARCHES ON 💖🖤💚
Pope John Paul I was on the news section!!
Harpo carried that guy!
Alpha Omega News Director Dennis Swanson at WLS picked that up. When Oprah said she wanted to go solo, he said okay.
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22:17 lol
And to think she got fired for being too emotionally involved with the stories. They told her she wasn't fit for TV.
Oprah looked quite old back then. She looks much younger now
She's a clone & she was darker back then.
No, Oprah looked very young back then in Baltimore!
Few lines and although her brows moved, they didn't move as much and she was *skinny.*
If you look at recent pieces, she's aged gracefully.
Her brows move way more freely and she has many more lines in addition to being plumper.
No, she looks older...but in a great, wonderful way.
+@@MemoGrafix:
No, her complexion appears darker now.
Back then, the camera lighting was different also.
18:06 afl/cio president George Meaney from Klassic Krusty!!!
I wish I dated Barbara Hanes back in the day,Because she was a hottie back then wearing a green sweater looking all sexy looking,But I wasn't boring yet I boring in 1986,This news was recorded in 1981 I wasn't in the oven yet.....
Is this in 1980?
my god this was the pre 40 pounds of crack days!!! lmao she was actually thin !!
@10:00 Oprah cooning lolol
You do know that she actually had a part on the soap opera and she was rehearsing her lines right?