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Syndicated listing's of Where Donahue aired

One of the first stations to carry Donahue outside the Avco group was WAGA Atlanta. Donahue practically destroyed WSB's longtime morning institution "Today In Georgia." Channel 2's show, which followed the Today Show from 1952 at 9 AM, found itself being moved around to 10 or 10:30 to get away from Phil on Channel 5. Nothing worked; Channel 5 seemed to hold the morning audience because at the time it had "The Price Is Right" usually at 10 or 10:30 (it moved to 11 AM in 1979), and by the time Channel 2 moved to ABC in 1980, Channel 5 had a slight lead for the noon newscasts.

Channel 2 did carry Donahue after Channel 5 replaced him with Regis & Kathie Lee; they carried him at 10 AM but the show was on its last legs by then. He also failed in an afternoon slot on 11 Alive.
 
bpatrick said:
I think WSMV carried Donahue and pre-empted whatever NBC had from 9-10 AM (Central).
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Before she got put in the 3 PM slot on WSMV, didn't Oprah get put on at 9 AM at some point after Ralph Emery retired?
 
Back to 1986, Donahue aired on the following stations in the Ludington, MI area:
9am - WPBN (Traverse City)
10am - WLUK (Green Bay) [9am CT]
Noon - WITI (Milwaukee) [11am CT]
 
In Houston, Donahue aired on ABC affiliate KTRK-TV (Channel 13).

In Dallas (at least during the time I lived there, from 1986 until 1991), Donahue aired on WFAA-TV (Channel 8), also an ABC affiliate.
 
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‘Donahue’ on precipice in shock development

Phil Donahue, the one-time king of talk, enters the 1995-96 season without clearances in New York and San Francisco, which could well mean the end is near for the man who practically created the genre. With the start of the new season only weeks away, it appears unlikely that Donahue’s...
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Here's a famous example on how Donahue final season went down. In San Francisco the show didn't get clearance in 1995-1996 season. Some of this is that Oprah was becoming one of the biggest talk shows of that time. In this case KGO-TV the one that ended Donahues contract to air in San Francisco ran with Oprah at that time.

The decline of “Donahue” can be traced directly to the success of King World’s “Oprah Winfrey.” When Winfrey premiered, she went straight to the top. She was new and different and, after years of being the only talker in town, “Donahue” had competition.



“Oprah changed the street we lived on,” says a former “Donahue” producer. “Phil was able to do a lot of first-person and relationship shows, but he was a little further back. When ‘Oprah’ came on she was more of a girlfriend who dishes.”



After “Oprah,” a slew of new talkshows emerged. The current crop includes Columbia TriStar TV Distribution’s “Ricki Lake” and Warner Bros. Domestic TV Distribution’s “Jenny Jones.”
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I remember in Boston it aired on WCVB-TV 5 (ABC). In the adjacent Providence area aired on WJAR-TV 10 (NBC), but in its last year it aired on WLNE-TV 6 (ABC).
 
Phil Donahue I was surprised a couple of years saw a promo to then WOTV Channel 8 when then owners LIN just bought the station in 83 & Sally as I always thought both were always on WWMT. Phil Donahue was on WWMT in West Michigan was on at 5PM in the mid 80s until 92 moved Phil Donahue to 9AM in his final years before they aired that show called Jerry Springer in 1996 9AM, right before Sally always at 10AM.
 
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