The 11-time Daytime Emmy winner presided over his program for 29 years and forged a path for Oprah Winfrey and others to follow. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Phil Donahue, the talk show innovator who ...

Before Phil Donahue, most talk shows were forums for celebrities to plug their latest projects. Donahue did some of that, too, and he wasn't above pandering for ratings. In an effort to appeal to his ...

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.

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 of young ...

Even on shows that were much lighter in tone, Phil Donahue would involve his audience - not just the studio audience, where he famously would stroll into the crowd with his microphone to let them ask ...

Today6 we're starting off by remembering Phil Donahue, the pioneering TV talk show host who died Sunday at age 88. We'll listen back to a conversation between him and Terry Gross from 1985, and we'll ...

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 ...