For adults of a certain generation, daytime talk shows of the 1980s and 1990s represented all that was right with the world during a sick day home from school. In an ideal scenario, your parents or ...

TV personalities are paying their respects to pioneering talk show host, Phil Donahue. The late daytime television icon, who hosted more than 6,000 iterations of The Phil Donahue Show from 1967 until ...

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.

LOS ANGELES — For nearly two decades, Phil Donahue was virtually the only TV talk show host to roam his audience with microphone and make them an essential part of his show. His huge cultural ...

Talk show host Phil Donahue appears with former first lady Nancy Reagan during taping of his show to promote her book “My Turn” on Nov. 6, 1989, in Burbank, Calif. Donahue, whose pioneering daytime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phil Donahue recalled the moment he realized the power of the microphone. “I was a reporter for WABJ radio in Adrian, Michigan,” ...

Phil Donahue, a broadcast legend and retired TV talk show host, died recently following a long illness. He was honored widely in the media for his extraordinary pioneering role in daytime television ...

The show was syndicated in 1970 and ran on national television for the next 26 years, racking up 20 Emmy Awards for the show and for Donahue as host, as well as a Peabody for Donahue in 1980. In May, ...

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 ...

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.