Phil Donahue, who died Sunday at 88, will be long remembered for changing day talk TV shows with a format that leaned heavily on participation and interaction with the studio audience. Initially ...
Successful national talk show host Phil Donahue, who entertained, challenged and informed two generations of daytime television viewers, died on Sunday night following a long illness, Variety has ...
The intrepid host reinvented the talk show genre, boldly normalizing ostensibly scandalous subjects and cultural entities. By Robyn Bahr For adults of a certain generation, daytime talk shows of the ...
"The Phil Donahue Show" began in 1967 as a local series in Dayton, Ohio. It was syndicated nationally in 1969 and relocated to Chicago in 1974, with the show's title shortened to just "Donahue." That ...
The montage also highlights Donahue’s trailblazing talk show career and lasting legacy Phil Donahue is being remembered one year after his death with a moving tribute that captures both his ...
Once upon a time, there was this TV company called Multimedia, which owned newspapers and TV stations. Based in South Carolina, the company created a syndication division that it based in Cincinnati ...
I think of Phil Donahue whenever I lose a call to static or somebody on the other line goes out of range. “Caller!” I shout. “Caller, are you there?” That bit comes from the late talk show host Phil ...
Phil Donahue, a former talk show host from Cleveland, has died at 88, USA TODAY reports. Donahue, a journalist and longtime host of "The Phil Donahue Show," created and hosted the first daytime talk ...
Phil Donahue united a broadcaster's telegenic appeal, an insistent curiosity, and a taste for provocative topics to create a new genre of television – the audience participation talk show – which ...
Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that brought success to Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died. He was 88.