The Emmy-winning 'Donahue' talk show host and media personality died following a long illness, his family said Jill Menze is a writer and editor based on Brooklyn, N.Y. She has written for such ...
Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television ... racking up 20 Emmy Awards for the show and for Donahue as host, as well as a Peabody for Donahue in 1980.
"There wouldn’t have been an Oprah Show without Phil Donahue being the first to prove that daytime talk and women watching should be taken seriously," wrote Oprah Winfrey. Phil Donahue, the ...
After a series of early jobs in radio and TV, Donahue was invited to move an earlier radio talk show to Dayton’s WLWD television station in 1967. It moved in 1974 to Chicago, where it stayed for ...
Phil Donahue, talk-show host and broadcast journalist, died Sunday night at age 88 after a long illness, his family confirmed to NBC’s Today. Donahue presided over The Phil Donahue Show ...
Donahue’s very first guest was Madalyn Murray O’Hair, at the time America’s most famous, and widely unpopular, atheist. Boris Yurchenko/Associated Press Donahue led a discussion on the life ...