Oprah Winfrey via Instagram
Oprah Winfrey and The Harpo Chicago Team
Today was Final ,FINAL goodbye to the greatest team in television. This is the team that will be the last to leave the Harpo Chicago building on Friday. They've been sorting, discarding ,packing , storing, archiving for a year now. Our goodbye luncheon today,a few tears and LOTS of great memories. Thank You to all especially bottom 6 Jerry, Tom, Michelle, Dan, Lisa, J.R. .. team mates over 25 years! Love and Gratitude to you all.
The facility, which Oprah Winfrey opened in 1990 to house her talk show empire, helped turn Chicago into a bustling television center and the West Loop into a resurgent urban neighborhood.
Production has migrated to the West Coast, four years after Oprah Winfrey started her own cable network, OWN, in 2011. The work in Chicago was mostly post-production editing on a handful of shows. Approximately 200 staffers were laid off. Chicago's place in the television industry diminished.
The lease on the space, where Winfrey's eponymous show was recorded for decades, runs until April 2016. The last day of production will be was Dec. 11, 2015.
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I'm assuming the studios are now based somewhere in LA. Good job Chicago! Oprah had such a great staff who did wonderful things over the 25 years her show was on the air. Looking forward to great things from The OWN.
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