“There wouldn’t have been an Oprah Show without Phil Donahue being the first to prove that daytime talk and women watching should be taken seriously,” she posted on Instagram on Monday along ...

Oprah Winfrey today paid tribute to Phil Donahue, calling the late longtime daytime talk show host a “pioneer.” “There wouldn't have been an Oprah Show without Phil Donahue being the first ...

Within a few months of AM Chicago's first air date on January 2, 1984, Oprah brought the ratings from dead last to the highest-rated talk show in Chicago, displacing Phil Donahue. On September 8 ...

The relationship between The Oprah Winfrey Show host and the CBS ... despite the daunting presence of established talk show host Phil Donahue in the market. Their friendship flourishes on a ...

Teresa S. Woorman speaks out after cameras cut to her during Oprah Winfrey's DNC speech calling out JD Vance's 'cat lady' comment. Phil Donahue has died the age of 88. ET chats with Sally Jessy ...

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.

Although the Oprah Winfrey Show has concluded ... By the end of the decade, her show had higher ratings than Phil Donahue’s program, the nationally syndicated number-one local show at the ...

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey and TV host Gayle King ... At the time, daytime talk-show host Phil Donahue was also based in the Windy City, and Winfrey feared the direct competition would hurt her ...