Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action reveals some insightful details about the show that overtook The Oprah Winfrey Show in the late 1990s and 2000s, including some comments by the Queen of All Media herself. While both The Jerry Springer Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show were popular talk shows that were characterized as tabloid talk shows, the two couldn’t be more different. The Oprah Winfrey Show began airing in 1986, and within a relatively short time, the show swept the nation and became the most-viewed talk show of that era.

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