{"id":4471,"date":"2014-03-17T21:16:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2014-03-17T21:16:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:16:32","slug":"oprah-winfrey-to-sell-harpo-studios-in-chicago-longtime-home-of-the-oprah-winfrey-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/17\/oprah-winfrey-to-sell-harpo-studios-in-chicago-longtime-home-of-the-oprah-winfrey-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey to sell Harpo Studios in Chicago, longtime home of &#8216;The Oprah Winfrey Show&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1474579_10152103075042220_1805495482_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4472\" alt=\"1474579_10152103075042220_1805495482_n\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1474579_10152103075042220_1805495482_n-230x300.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1474579_10152103075042220_1805495482_n-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1474579_10152103075042220_1805495482_n.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Oprah Winfrey<\/p>\n<p>CHICAGO\u2014Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the studio will remain on the property for another two years.<\/p>\n<p>Winfrey filmed &#8220;The Oprah Winfrey Show&#8221; at the studio from 1990 to 2011, when she ended the talk show to start the Oprah Winfrey Network on cable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have entered into a purchasing agreement with Sterling Bay for the four-building Harpo Studios campus in Chicago&#8217;s West Loop,&#8221; Harpo told Crain&#8217;s Chicago Business (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1iRqccg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1iRqccg<\/a> ) in a statement. &#8220;We expect the transaction to be closed in 30 days. The property will be leased back to Harpo for two years and the studio will continue to produce programming for OWN.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 200 people work at the 3.5-acre campus, which will sell for about $32 million, Crain&#8217;s reported Sunday. Harpo said it expects to close the transaction in 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Winfrey first came to Chicago in 1984 to WLS-TV&#8217;s morning talk show, &#8220;A.M. Chicago.&#8221; A month later, the show was No. 1 in the market and renamed &#8220;The Oprah Winfrey Show&#8221; in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Winfrey moved to Harpo Studios in 1990 and is credited with transforming the once-gritty industrial area to a neighbourhood filled with families and trendy restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, then-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley named the street outside Harpo Studios &#8220;Oprah Winfrey Way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Information from: CRAIN&#8217;S CHICAGO BUSINESS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Oprah Winfrey CHICAGO\u2014Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago to a developer, but the studio &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[1135],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","tag-oprah-winfrey","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}