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Tim Bennett, President of Harpo, Oprah Winfrey’s production company, has made an announcement that the show will be ending. Bennett said in a statement Thursday “Tomorrow, Oprah will announce live on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she has decided to end what is arguably one of the most popular, influential and enduring programs in television history. The sun will set on the Oprah show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011.”

The show that first aired on September 8, 1986 is the longest running daytime television talk show in the U.S.

Winfrey, now 55, will still be keeping busy and is starting up her own cable channel called OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.

Fellow female talk show host, Ellen Degeneres had nothing but nice things to say about Oprah “I don’t think I could be here without her. I think she has blazed a trail…She is an amazing woman. She will always be the queen of daytime television and she also said she is leaving me all of her money.”