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 Phil Donahue at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007
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Phillip John Donahue (born December 21, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American media personality and writer, best known as the creator and star of The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, the first tabloid talk show. The Toronto International Film Festival ( TIFF) is a publicly-attended Film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 69 - The end of the Year of the four emperors: Following Galba, Otho and Vitellius, Vespasian Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms Tabloid talk shows are a genre of American television talk-shows that achieved peak viewership during the late 20th century The show had a 26-year run on national (U. S. ) TV, preceded by three years of local broadcast in Dayton, Ohio, before ending in 1996. Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the County seat and largest city of Montgomery County.
His shows have generally focused on issues that often divide liberals and conservatives in the United States, such as abortion, consumer protection (his most frequent guest was Ralph Nader, for whom he campaigned in 2000), civil rights and war protests. Liberalism is a broad array of related ideas and theories of Government that consider individual Liberty to be the most important political goal Conservatism in the United States includes a variety of political ideologies including Fiscal conservatism, Supply-side economics, Social conservatism An Ralph Nader (born February 27 1934 is an American Attorney, Author, Lecturer, political activist, and independent candidate for President The United States presidential election of 2000 was a contest between Democratic candidate Al Gore, then Vice President, and Republican Donahue also hosted a talk show on MSNBC from 2002 – 2003. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada.
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Personal history
In 1949, Phil was in the graduating class of Our Lady Of Angels. In 1953, Donahue was a member of the first graduating class of St. Edward High School, an all-boys college prep Catholic high school run by the Brothers of Holy Cross in suburban Lakewood, Ohio. St Edward High School is an all-male Catholic high school in Lakewood Ohio. Lakewood is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area and borders the city of Cleveland He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.B.A. The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame) (ˌnoʊtɚˈdeɪm is a private Roman Catholic Research university located in in 1957. A year later he married his first wife, Marge Cooney, who divorced him in 1975. There were five children from that marriage. He married his second (and present) wife, actress Marlo Thomas, in 1980. Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas (born November 21, 1937) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series That
Early career
Donahue began his career in 1957 as a production assistant at KYW radio and television in Cleveland. WTAM is an AM radio station in Cleveland Ohio broadcasting on 1100 kHz with 50000 watts WKYC-TV, channel 3 is an NBC -affiliated television station located in Cleveland Ohio, owned by the Gannett Company. He got a chance to become an announcer one day when the regular announcer failed to show up. After a brief stint as a bank check sorter in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he became program director for WABJ radio in Adrian, Michigan, soon after graduating. Adrian is a city in the US state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 21574 with the 2006 population estimated at 21703 He moved on to become a stringer for the CBS Evening News and later, an anchor of the morning newscast at WHIO-TV in Dayton, Ohio, where his interviews with Jimmy Hoffa and Billie Sol Estes were picked up nationally. In Journalism, a stringer is a type of Freelance Journalist who contributes reportage to a News organization on an on-going basis but is paid CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. WHIO-TV is a Television station in Dayton Ohio. It broadcasts on channel 7 and is an affiliate of CBS. Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the County seat and largest city of Montgomery County. James Riddle ("Jimmy" Hoffa ( February 14, 1913 - disappeared July 30, 1975, exact Billie Sol Estes (born 1924 was a scandal-ridden Texas -based financier best known for his association with U While in Dayton, Donahue also hosted Conversation Piece, a phone-in afternoon talk show from 1963 to 1967 on WHIO radio. WHIO (1290 AM) is a Radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format There, among others, he interviewed civil rights activists (including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X) and war dissenters. Martin Luther King Jr ( January 15, 1929 April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, Activist and prominent leader Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19 1925 February 21 1965 also known as El-Hajj Malik El- Shabazz, was an African American
The Phil Donahue Show / Donahue
In 1967, Donahue left the WHIO stations and moved his talk program to television with The Phil Donahue Show on WLWD (now WDTN), also in Dayton. The Phil Donahue Show, also known as Donahue, was the first Tabloid talk show. WDTN is the NBC -affiliated Television station for the Miami Valley area of Ohio. Initially, the program was shown only on other stations owned by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation (which would later take the name of its parent Avco Company), which also owned WLWD. Crosley Broadcasting Corporation "regional" mostly midwestern version of the larger nation-wide RCA/NBC founded by radio manufacturing pioneer Powel Crosley Jr Avco Corporation is a subsidiary of Textron which operates Textron Systems Corporation and Lycoming. But, in January 1970, The Phil Donahue Show entered nationwide syndication. In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through
After a 29-year run – 26 years in syndication – the final original episode of Donahue aired in May 1996, culminating what remains the longest continuous run of any syndicated talk show in U. S. television history.
While hosting his own program, Donahue also appeared on NBC's The Today Show as a contributor, from 1980 until 1982. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Today, also referred to as The Today Show, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. From 1991 to 1994 he also co-hosted Pozner/Donahue, a weekly, issues-oriented roundtable program with Soviet journalist Vladimir Posner, which aired both on CNBC and in syndication. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Vladimir Vladimirovich Posner (also spelled "Pozner" in Russian Владимир Владимирович Познер born April 1, 1934, is a CNBC (an abbreviation for the " C onsumer N ews and B usiness C hannel" its official name until 1991 is a cable and ([1])
MSNBC program
In 2002, Phil Donahue returned to television to host a show called Donahue on MSNBC. The year 2002 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2002. MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada. On February 25, 2003, MSNBC canceled the show, citing low viewership. Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor The year 2003 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2003. While he didn't garner as many viewers as Bill O'Reilly, who shared the same time slot, Donahue was the highest rated show on MSNBC at the time it was canceled, managing to beat out even Chris Matthews' "Hardball" in the ratings. William James O'Reilly Jr (born September 10 1949 is an American television / radio host, Author, Syndicated columnist, and Christopher Matthews (born December 17 1945) is an American News anchor and Political commentator, known for his nightly hour-long [1] Soon after the show's cancellation AllYourTV. com reported it had received a copy of an internal NBC memo that stated Donahue should be fired because he would be a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war". [2][3] Donahue was the only host of a talk show on any cable network who was decidedly in opposition to the then-proposed invasion of Iraq in 2003. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1 2003 was spearheaded by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia
Film producer
In 2007, Donahue served as Executive Producer for the feature documentary film, Body of War, which he also co-directed with independent filmmaker Ellen Spiro. Body of War, directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue, is a 2007 documentary following Tomas Young an Iraq War veteran paralyzed Ellen Spiro (born 1964) is an American documentary Filmmaker. The film tells the story of Tomas Young, a severely disabled Iraq War veteran and his turbulent postwar adjustments. The film features two new songs, No More and Long Nights by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990 Eddie Vedder (born December 23 1964 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American singer, Songwriter, Composer, and Guitarist In November 2007 the film was named as one of fifteen documentaries to be in consideration for an Oscar nomination from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [4] Vedder's involvement in the film stems from a meeting the two men had while participating in a Chicago Cubs fantasy camp, according to an interview Donahue did with the Associated Press. The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio
References
- ^ The Surrender Of MSNBC-AllYourTV.com
- ^ The Surrender Of MSNBC-AllYourTV.com
- ^ Media Matters - Phil Donahue on his 2003 MSNBC firing: "We had to have two conservatives on for every liberal. I was counted as two liberals."
- ^ Melidonian, Teni. 15 Docs Move Ahead in 2007 Oscar® Race Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences official website. 2007-11-19. Retrieved on 2007-12-3.
External links
- Phil Donahue at the Internet Movie Database
- Body of War
- Interview with Phil Donahue on "Body of War" at IFC.com
- Donahue, Phil from Museum of Broadcast Communications
- Interview with Phil Donahue on the state of the media from Democracy Now!
- Video Interview from Archive of American Television
- Phil Donahue Interview on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
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