Thursday, November 6, 2003
Ohio Moments
Cleveland's Donahue started TV show genre
On Nov. 6, 1967, Phil Donahue's daytime television talk show premiered on WLWD-TV in Dayton with atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair as his first guest.
Donahue is considered the pioneer of the TV genre that includes controversial topics and audience participation. Born in Cleveland in 1935, he graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1957. That year, Donahue became an announcer for KYW-TV and AM radio in Cleveland. He also was a newscaster for WHIO-TV in Dayton. Donahue hosted a phone-in radio show from Dayton called Conversation Piece from 1963 until the debut of his TV show.
The Phil Donahue Show was syndicated after two years, and it relocated to Chicago in 1974, then New York. After winning 20 Emmy Awards, being inducted into the national Television Hall of Fame and spawning racier imitations, Donahue's show went off the air in 1996.
Rebecca Goodman
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