Donahue’s very first guest was Madalyn Murray O’Hair, at the time America’s most famous, and widely unpopular, atheist. Boris Yurchenko/Associated Press Donahue led a discussion on the life of young ...

A pioneer in daytime television has died at the age of 88. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says Phil Donahue invented the audience-participation talk show. ERIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: Phil Donahue may have ...

It turns out the Nixons apparently knew Donald Trump would win if he ever decided to run for political office, according to a letter posted by the National Archives Foundation. The letter, courtesy of ...

Groundbreaking daytime TV talk show host Phil Donahue, who died Sunday at age 88, hosted a week of outdoor TV shows on Sacramento’s K Street Mall in the 1970s. Donahue’s show achieved national ...