The late great daytime talk show host Phil Donahue passed away. He was eighty-eight.
After a protracted illness, Donahue passed away “peacefully” at his home on Sunday, August 18. According to a statement provided with Today, he was joined by his 44-year wife, Marlo Thomas, “his sister, his children, grandchildren, and his beloved golden retriever, Charlie.”
Donahue, who was born in 1935, started his media career in the late 1950s. Donahue began hosting his own talk show after serving as a local reporter in his home state of Ohio. Before moving to a local NBC station in Dayton, Ohio in 1967, it first aired on a local CBS affiliate. It was chosen for syndication three years later and began airing across the nation.
His talk show was well-known for delving into contentious subjects, such as child abuse inside the Catholic Church and the former KKK grand wizard.
Future talk shows during the day were made possible by the Phil Donahue Show, which was eventually renamed Donahue.
The first program to let viewers question guests was Donahue’s.
In an interview with WGN, Donahue said, “One day, I just went out in the audience, and it’s clear there would be no Donahue show if I hadn’t somehow accidentally brought in the audience.”
Donahue won 20 Emmy Awards, helped establish the path for future daytime hosts like Oprah Winfrey and Sally Jesse Raphael, and most recently, President Biden gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The family of Donahue asked that donations be given to the Phil Donahue/Notre Dame Scholarship Fund or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in lieu of flowers.
Dear Phil Donahue, you will be missed. I appreciate what you’ve done for daytime television. I hope you have a peaceful rest.
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