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Phil Donahue Remembered: Oprah Winfrey, Sally Jessy Raphael, Geraldo Rivera, Piers Morgan & Andy Cohen Among Those Paying Tribute To TV Pioneer
Oprah Winfrey pays tribute to "pioneer" Phil Donahue: "Wouldn’t have been an Oprah Show without" him being first to taken women watching daytime talk seriously.
Indeed, Donahue, who died today at 88, treated his studio audiences with respect and is regarded as an early advocate for women. He gave his largely female audience the opportunity to speak and ask questions on serious topics rather than the home ec subjects that so many daytime talkers focused on. Winfrey appeared on Donahue’s 25th anniversary show in 1992, along with such talk luminaries as Sally Jessy Raphael, , Geraldo Rivera, Jenny Jones, Jane Pauley and Montel Williams.
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