FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2009 file photo thousands of people watch the the taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on the temporary stage set up on Chicago's Michigan Avenue to kickoff Winfrey's 24th season. Winfrey's announcement Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, that she was taking her show off the air in December 2011 after 25 years is a blow to the "Second City" where she has remained the city's ambassador and kept the spotlight shining on it.