Phil Donahue

Phillip John Phil Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and film producer best known as the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, also known as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29year run on national television in America that began in Dayton, Ohio, and ended in New York City in 1996.

Donahue was born into a middleclass, churchgoing, Irish Catholic family in Cleveland, Ohio his father, Phillip Donahue, was a furniture sales clerk and his mother, Catherine , a department store shoe clerk. In 1949, he graduated from Our Lady of Angels elementary school in the West Park neighborhood of Cleveland. In 1953, Donahue was a member of the first graduating class of St. Edward High School, an allboys college prep Catholic private high school run by the Congregation of Holy Cross in suburban Lakewood, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame, which is also run by the Congregation of Holy Cross, with a B.B.A. in 1957.

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