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Apr 16, 2006 8:27 am US/Eastern

WJZ Welcomes Oprah Back Home

by Richard Sher
Baltimore, MD (WJZ) ―

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Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey made a surprise visit to WJZ TV 13 see former colleagues and friends at the Television Hill studios for the first time since leaving Baltimore more than 20 years ago for Chicago.

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!" "Next time," she said as she pulled away to prepare for her speaking engagement at fund raising event for Temple Beth Tfiloh Dahan community school.

WJZ 13 is the CBS Television Station in Baltimore.

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