Oprah Extends Reach to YouTube

SAN BRUNO/CHICAGO,
November 5: Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions has partnered with YouTube to
launch a new channel on the video sharing site that will offer up a selection
of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and guest moments from The Oprah
Winfrey Show.

The channel will feature
supplemental video from The Oprah Winfrey Show, including highlights from guests’ appearances,
behind-the-scenes footage from Harpo Studios’ green room and backstage and
clips shot by Winfrey herself from an “Oprah cam.”

To promote the venture,
YouTube’s founders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, will appear on The Oprah
Winfrey Show on November 6,
discussing YouTube “stars” discovered on the online video community.

Oprah will also serve as a
guest editor for YouTube today and tomorrow, presenting a few of her favorite
videos to be featured on the site’s homepage. The Oprah channel can be found at
www.youtube.com/oprah. Additional content will be featured on www.oprah.com.

Jordan Hoffner, the head
of business development at YouTube, commented: "The Oprah channel on
YouTube offers our community an opportunity to get more access to one of their
favorite television personalities and a look at what it takes to produce the
number one daytime television talk show. We are delighted that Oprah's channel
will open up the dialogue with a new audience, allowing people around the world
to communicate their stories, demonstrate their creativity, express their
thoughts and participate in the process."

Tim Bennett, the president
of Harpo Productions, added: "We are excited to be working with YouTube to
provide another platform for people online to communicate with us and share in
some of the one-of-a-kind experiences that occur behind-the-scenes at The
Oprah Winfrey Show.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski