The talk show pioneer, who died at age 88 in 2024, is honored in an exclusive tribute video blending career milestones with intimate family memories Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE.

Together, they told us everything we wanted to know about sex. By Wesley Morris Before the answers to life’s questions fit in our pocket, you used to have to turn a dial. If you were lucky, Phil ...

It was 1967 when the national media was covering our auto safety initiatives. A call came on the hallway phone outside my $90-a-month boarding room. “Hello, I’m Phil Donahue. I want to invite you on ...

Phil Donahue was to talk show hosts as Fr. Andrew Greeley was to priests and Jason Berry is to print journalists: the first in his field to credibly address the Catholic Church's then virtually ...

In Phil Donahue, our nation has lost a trailblazing television icon who held up a mirror to America and united us around the toughest issues of our time (“TV legend dead,” Aug. 20). A son of a working ...

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 ...

Donahue, who died Aug. 18, hosted an issue-oriented, afternoon talk show that paved the way for Oprah and others. David Bianculli offers an appreciation, and we listen back to a 1985 interview. This ...

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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm TV critic David Bianculli. Today6 we're starting off by remembering Phil Donahue, the pioneering TV talk show host who died Sunday at age 88. We'll listen back to a conversation ...

Phil Donahue hosts his television show in New York on Jan. 27, 1993. Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre, has died. He was 88. A giant of the television ...

Phil Donahue, who died on Aug. 18 at the age of 88, was not only the most expressively inquisitive of daytime TV talk show hosts but surely the most athletic: In his prime years in national ...