And so it goes, day after day on WLIB and a handful of other stations that broadcast talk shows geared to the full range of the city's black listeners.
Celebrity talk shows are a major but relatively unexplored form of broadcast talk.
Ms. Winfrey is taking an enormous risk by ending her 25-year-old broadcast talk show in 2011 and moving to cable, hoping that her viewers will move with her.
She was also a leader in HIV/AIDS advocacy in the 1980s, speaking on nationally broadcast talk shows like Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey.
Ms. Winfrey's arrangement for her new cable channel, called OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, may be an inspiration for others: her production company owns half of OWN, so if it is a success, Ms. Winfrey, 57, already a billionaire, could earn far more money than she did on an annual basis on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," the 25-year-old broadcast talk show that ended last month.
NBC and CBS have broadcast talk shows in the same late-night time slots.
But the show draws between half a million and two million viewers on a typical week, a relatively paltry number compared to the six to eight million viewers for her weekday, hourlong broadcast talk show that ended in 2011.
But perhaps the most important stars are the ones that Ms. Winfrey has helped groom for the past decade, like Ms. Berman Gayle Kingg, whose morning radio show will be adapted for television; and Phil McGraw, whose broadcast talk show will be seen in repeats.
Nine months later she was on the air with her nationally broadcast talk show.
Visually attractive, well shot and dynamically edited, this ten-minute broadcast talks about the issue in an attractive way, clearly points to the hazards of on-line abuse and exploitation and sends a message on what should be paid attention to in school, at home, among children, and among adults.
