Daytime talk show legend Phil Donahue, whose pioneering "The Phil Donahue Show" revolutionized TV with studio audience participation on topical social issues, has died at age 88, according to reports.

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.

Groundbreaking daytime talk show host Phil Donahue is dead at 88. His family told “Today” the television fixture died Sunday night surrounded by loved ones following a long illness of an undisclosed ...

The talk show host made a career of exposing polarizing topics while dressed in a relatively neutral wardrobe. By Guy Trebay The hoary tabloid axiom “if it bleeds, it leads” played no small part in ...

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