Phil Donahue is an American media personality, widely known as “King of Daytime Talk”. Born as Phillip John Donahue into a middle-class family, he became interested in broadcasting early in his life and started working at WNDU-TV station while studying for his bachelor’s degree. Eventually, he began his career as a television announcer in Cleveland before moving to Dayton, where he joined WHIO-TV as a news announcer, shortly becoming well-known for his perceptive intervening techniques. However, it was during his stint at the WLWD station that he became nationally famous as the host of The Phil Donahue Show, which ran successfully for three years before being syndicated. Later, he moved the show to Chicago and rechristened it simply as Donahue, earning not only ten Emmy Awards, but also becoming an inspiration to numerous television hosts including Oprah Winfrey, airing nearly 7,000 hour-long daily shows for 29 years before pulling it off the air.