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 ...

If you press that orange button above, you’ll be listening to a talk show. Now, you may not think of public radio and daytime TV as related. But at the heart of what we here on 1A do is… you. And for ...

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, 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 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.

American TV icon Phil Donahue has died at the age of 88. His death was first reported by "The Today Show," which received a statement from his family. Donahue’s talk show, "The Phil Donahue Show," ran ...

Phil Donahue attends the American Icon Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on May 19, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. automation Phil Donahue, whose influential TV talk show aired for ...

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 ...

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 ...