On January 1, 2011, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) launched. It is co-owned by Harpo Studios (5%) and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (95%). The network replaced the Discovery Health Channel, a cable channel previously owned by Discovery Communications, Inc. The network initially had a variety of new shows, including some hosted by the stable of experts Winfrey has cultivated on her daytime talk show including: The Gayle King Show, Our America with Lisa Ling, In The Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman and Enough Already! with Peter Walsh.
Together with Hearst Magazines, Harpo Print, LLC publishes O, The Oprah Magazine. The company also published O at Home, which Hearst officially folded in 2008 after a four-year run. In July 2020, it was announced that O, The Oprah Magazine will end its regular print edition after the December 2020 issue. The December 2020 of O Magazine featured an article where Oprah thanked readers and also acknowledged it was the magazine's "final monthly print edition."
Founded in 1993, Harpo Films, Inc. was the biggest division of Harpo Productions, run by Kate Forte for 18 years. It was an active supplier of motion pictures, developing and producing award-winning features and long-form television programs, including the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" telefilms for the ABC television network. Harpo Films was based in Los Angeles, California.
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with HBO. Previously, Harpo Films had a deal with ABC, which included production of Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day. In February 2013, Harpo Films was shut down, citing that "the demand for long-form projects, especially on the broadcast side, has dried out." Many of its employees were expected to move on to Harpo Studios' new scripted series division. A small number of films already in production were released under the Harpo Films banner in 2014. Since then, the label has appeared irregularly on various films for which Winfrey has served as a producer.
Feature films
Beloved (1998) (As producer; co-production with Touchstone Pictures and Clinica Estetico; distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; first theatrical film)
The Great Debaters (2007) (as producer; distributed by The Weinstein Company & Metro Goldwyn Mayer)
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009) (studio credit with 34th Street Films; produced by Lee Daniels Entertainment and Smokewood Entertainment; distributed by Lionsgate)
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) (As producer; co-production with Touchstone Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Participant Media, ImageNation Abu Dhabi and Amblin Entertainment; distributed by Disney internationally and Mister Smith Entertainment in the EMEA region)
Selma (under Harpo Productions, 2014) (as producer; co-production with Pathé, Plan B Entertainment, Cloud Eight Films, Ingenious Media and Redgill Selma Productions; distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States and 20th Century Fox in the United Kingdom)
The Water Man (2021) (as producer; co-production with ShivHans Pictures and Yoruba Saxon Productions; distributed by RLJE Films in the United States and Netflix internationally)
The Color Purple (2023) (as producer (credited onscreen as OW Films); co-production with Amblin Entertainment and Scott Sanders Productions; distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)
Television films
Before Women Had Wings (1997, first television film)
The Wedding (1998)
David & Lisa (1998)
Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day (2007)
Harpo Radio, Inc.
Harpo Radio, Inc. was the holding company for the Oprah & Friends channel (156 on XM Satellite Radio). Oprah & Friends featured a broad range of daily and weekly programming on a variety of topics including self-improvement, nutrition, fitness, parenting, health, home, finance, and current events hosted by personalities from The Oprah Winfrey Show and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Regular presenters included specialists from a variety of fields, including Dr. Maya Angelou, Marianne Williamson, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Bob Greene, Nate Berkus, Jean Chatzky, Gayle King, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and Holly Robinson Peete and Rodney Peete. Oprah, herself, also personally interviewed some of the most influential voices in the spiritual realm on her weekly program, Oprah's Soul Series.
Harpo Radio, Inc. produced and broadcast the Oprah & Friends channel from an XM studio in Chicago, Illinois, from New York, New York. It shut down on January 1, 2015.
