He first hosted an afternoon call-in talk show from 1963 through 1967 on WHIO Radio. He left the station after being frustrated not having a national reach and had been working as a salesman for E ...

In May, President Joe Biden awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Donahue, who was cited as a pioneer of the daytime talk show. The show included radio-style call-ins, which Donahue greeted with ...

After a series of early jobs in radio and TV, Donahue was invited to move an earlier radio talk show to Dayton’s WLWD television station in 1967. It moved in 1974 to Chicago, where it stayed for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is launching her own radio talk show next week on ...

He honed his broadcasting skills as a radio and TV news anchor in Ohio. Donahue’s big break came in 1967, when Dayton’s WLWD TV launched “The Phil Donahue Show.” The host came up with the ...