Phillip John "Phil" Donahue (born December 21, 1935) is an Emmy Award winning American media personality and writer, best known as the creator and star of The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, the first tabloid talk show. The show had a 26-year run on U.S. national TV, preceded by three years of local broadcast in Dayton, Ohio, before ending in 1996.
His shows have generally focused on issues that often divide liberals and conservatives i...
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Phillip John "Phil" Donahue (born December 21, 1935) is an Emmy Award winning American media personality and writer, best known as the creator and star of The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, the first tabloid talk show. The show had a 26-year run on U.S. national TV, preceded by three years of local broadcast in Dayton, Ohio, before ending in 1996.
His shows have generally focused on issues that often divide liberals and conservatives in the United States, such as abortion, consumer protection, civil rights and war protests. His most frequent guest was Ralph Nader and Donahue campaigned for Nader in 2000. Donahue also hosted a talk show on MSNBC from 2002 – 2003.
Donahue was born into a middle-class, churchgoing Irish Catholic family in Cleveland, Ohio; his father was a furniture sales clerk and his mother a department store shoe clerk. In 1949, he was in the graduating class of Our Lady Of Angels elementary school in the West Park neighborhood. In 1953, Donahue was a member...
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