"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.

In this piece, a number of New York hardcore fans visit The Phil Donahue Show to discuss a controversial article in New York Magazine. The clip features the fans, writer and host discussing bands like ...

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.

The recent passing of the American journalist Phil Donahue at the age of 88 marked the end of a unique era in television. Revered for pioneering the daytime talk show format, Donahue’s ...

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.

In September 1991, WLWT, the NBC affiliate in Cincinnati, sought a replacement for The Phil Donahue Show and selected Jerry Springer to host a daytime talk show with a political focus ...

Phil Donahue hosts his television show in New York on Jan. 27, 1993. Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre, has died. He was 88. AP file photo Phil Donahue ...

Beaming out of his Chicago studio to more than 200 cities at its peak, Donahue's show proved daytime audiences — largely women — were eager to explore topics beyond celebrity chat. Though he ...

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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 ...