Legendary American TV host Phil Donahue has died at the age of 88

On Sunday, August 19, the legendary TV presenter Phil Donaghue died in the USA at the age of 88. UNN writes about this with reference to The Washington Post.

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The man died at home in surrounded by family — his wife-actress Malo Thomas, his sister, children, grandchildren, and also a pet, a golden retriever named Charlie.

According to his family, Phil Donahue died "peacefully as a result of a long illness.

The Donahue family asked that instead of flowers, those who wish make donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or the Phil Donahue/Notre Dame Fellowship Foundation.

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Phil Donahue is best known for his TV show of the same name, which started in 1967 in Dayton, Ohio. It raised socially important topics, in particular child abuse in the Catholic Church, feminism, and racial issues. It was also the first to allow viewers to ask questions to the guests of the broadcast. In 1974, the show moved to Chicago, and in 1985, to New York.

Donahue's show won 20 Emmy Awards (10 for Outstanding Host and 10 for the talk show itself). 

In addition, it was Donagyu who conducted the first teleconferences between the USSR and the United States during the perestroika era. So, in 1986, with the beginning of perestroika, Donahue came to the USSR and visited Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. Together with a Soviet journalist with American citizenship, Vladimir Posner, he conducted teleconferences between the United States and the USSR, in which residents of the countries recently divided by the Iron Curtain could talk to each other.

In the United States, Donahue and Posner's joint TV show aired on SNBC until 1996.