Groundbreaking daytime TV talk show host Phil Donahue, who died Sunday at age 88, hosted a week of outdoor TV shows on Sacramento’s K Street Mall in the 1970s. Donahue’s show achieved national ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Phil Donahue, who died Sunday at 88, will be long remembered for changing day talk TV shows with a format that leaned heavily on participation and interaction with the studio audience. Initially ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.