It was 1967 when the national media was covering our auto safety initiatives. A call came on the hallway phone outside my $90-a-month boarding room. “Hello, I’m Phil Donahue. I want to invite you on ...

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Phil Donahue, the award-winning Irish American journalist, died on Sunday, August 18. Donahue's family confirmed in a statement issued to NBC's The Today Show that the groundbreaking TV talk show ...

When I’m asked to sometimes lead a panel discussion or roam an audience with a handheld microphone to field questions from an audience, I good-naturedly refer to myself as a substitute for Phil ...

FILE - Phil Donahue attends the 2019 American Icon Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 19, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File) Phil Donahue, whose ...

Phil Donahue was another. 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 ...

Phil Donahue united a broadcaster’s telegenic appeal, an insistent curiosity, and a taste for provocative topics to create a new genre of television – the audience participation talk show – which ...

Thomas helped lead the tributes to late husband, Phil Donahue, who pioneered the daytime talk format, with fellow television hosts including Oprah, Ricki Lake, Montel Williams, Sally Jesse Raphael, ...

The Rev. Michael Heath, of Fayetteville, is a licensed mental health counselor and a United Church of Christ minister. Television talk show host Phil Donahue’s recent death hit me harder than most.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

But Phil Donahue changed TV for the better, not for the worse. Terry Gross spoke to Phil Donahue in 1985, and she asked him why he involved the audience during his program. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR ...

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 ...