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Phillip John Donahue (December 21, 1935 – August 18, 2024) was an American media personality, writer, film producer, and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, later known simply as Donahue, was the first popular talk show to feature a format that included audience participation. [1]
Aug 19, 2024 · Phil Donahue, the celebrated daytime talk show host who pioneered the television staple, has died, his publicist confirmed to CBS News. He was 88.
Aug 19, 2024 · Phil Donahue, an innovative TV host who rose to fame in the late 1960s after he was the first person to interact with a studio audience on a talk show and brought new ideas into American living...
Aug 19, 2024 · Phil Donahue, who in the 1960s reinvented the television talk show with a democratic flourish, inviting audiences to question his guests on topics as resolutely high-minded as human rights and ...
Aug 19, 2024 · The broadcaster was hailed as the father of the modern audience-participation daytime talk show. Donahue's taste for controversial and polarizing subjects birthed a new genre of...
Aug 23, 2024 · PHIL DONAHUE: A significant and serious disease has struck the gay community. And let's see how much sense we can make out of this at the outset. First of all, you don't have to be gay to...
Aug 19, 2024 · Phil Donahue, a groundbreaking host in daytime TV, whom Oprah Winfrey once credited for her own legacy as a talk show host, has passed away at 88.
Aug 19, 2024 · Phil Donahue, Pioneering Talk Show Host, Dies at 88. The 11-time Daytime Emmy winner presided over his program for 29 years and forged a path for Oprah Winfrey and others to follow.
Aug 19, 2024 · Phil Donahue, who flipped the script for daytime television by tackling controversial issues in front of a live audience, has died after a long illness, his family announced in a statement on ...
Aug 19, 2024 · Phil Donahue, whose influential TV talk show aired for nearly 30 years, has died at age 88. Donahue died Sunday night of an undisclosed illness, according to a family statement provided to ABC ...