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• Walters’ style changed face of interviews

  May 17, 2013 in Features on Page C9 Let the Barbara Walters farewell tour begin! Monday’s edition of “The View” opened with the show’s founder and star fixing the camera with that fearless don’t-let-the-strange-absence- of-wrinkles-fool-you-I’ve-been- on-television-for-50-years gaze and …

• Shift to TV not always kind to stage stars

  May 17, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C12 NEW YORK – The slow, lingering demise of “Smash” has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway. The TV series about the making of … 1

• Walters’ style changed face of interviews

  May 16, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page N9 Let the Barbara Walters farewell tour begin! Monday’s edition of “The View” opened with the show’s founder and star fixing the camera with that fearless don’t-let-the-strange-absence- of-wrinkles-fool-you-I’ve-been- on-television-for-50-years gaze and …

• TV network aimed at millennials set for summer

  December 17, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Participant Media plans to launch a cable network aimed at viewers 18 to 34 years old with programming it describes as inspiring and thought-provoking. The as-yet-unnamed …

• Joe Allbritton, 87, DC media, banking giant dies

  December 12, 2012 in Nation/World McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Joe L. Allbritton, who became one of Washington’s most influential men through a media conglomerate of newspapers and television stations and a financial empire that once …

• ‘Dallas’ star Larry Hagman dies in Texas

  November 23, 2012 in Nation/World LOS ANGELES (AP) — Larry Hagman, whose predatory oil baron J.R. Ewing on television’s long-running nighttime soap opera “Dallas” became a symbol for 1980s greed and coaxed forth a Texas-sized …

• Maine TV news co-anchors quit on the air

  November 21, 2012 in Nation/World BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Two news co-anchors for a Maine television station surprised viewers and colleagues by quitting on the air, later citing frustration with their management. Cindy Michaels and …

• Exit poll: Hint of economic optimism as Obama wins

  November 6, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters who feel the economic outlook brightening after years of misery and believe Barack Obama is more in touch with people like themselves propelled the president to …

• Exit poll: Many still blame Bush for bad economy

  November 6, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising prices and chronic unemployment were heavy on the minds of voters Tuesday even as a glimmer of optimism peeked through. Four in 10 said the nation’s …

• Many voters still blame Bush for bad economy

  November 6, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising prices and chronic unemployment were heavy on the minds of voters Tuesday even as a glimmer of optimism peeked through. Four in 10 said the nation’s … 2

• Survey: Economy remains top concern for voters

  November 6, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Preliminary results from a national exit poll in Tuesday’s elections for The Associated Press and the television networks: ___

• Exit poll shows economy still the top concern

  November 6, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Rising prices and unemployment were heavy on the minds of voters Tuesday even as a glimmer of optimism peeked through, with 4 in 10 saying the nation’s …

• Dizzying array of media streams spotlight election

  November 4, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The days of watching Election Night coverage on a single television set may soon be a quaint anachronism. Americans have an array of alternatives for following …

• Networks, AP changing exit poll strategy

  October 25, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A growth in early voting and tough economy for the media are forcing changes to the exit poll system that television networks and The Associated Press …

• Fox locks in NASCAR

  October 16, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 NASCAR and Fox announced an eight-year, $2.4 billion extension Monday that runs through 2022 and keeps the prestigious Daytona 500 and first third of the Sprint Cup Series on the …

• Israeli PM makes case on Iran to US voters

  September 16, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his case on Iran directly to U.S. voters Sunday, telling the American public in televised interviews that the White House must …

• Despite pleas, missing SC boy falls by wayside

  September 8, 2012 COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Despite detectives’ pleas to national media, the disappearance of an 18-month-old black boy with the wide smile has yet to grab the widespread attention given to …

• French judges to exhume Arafat body in West Bank

  September 5, 2012 in Health RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The widow of Yasser Arafat said Wednesday that French investigators will soon visit the West Bank to dig up the remains of her husband in …

• Hanks, Timberlake among ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ stars

  September 5, 2012 in Health LOS ANGELES (AP) — More A-listers have signed on to support the third Stand Up to Cancer telethon. Organizers say Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Justin Timberlake, Sofia Vergara, and Olympic …

• Taped MDA fundraiser set for 3 hours on Sunday

  September 1, 2012 in Health LOS ANGELES (AP) — No tote board. No Jerry Lewis. And not from Las Vegas. An annual Muscular Dystrophy Association television fundraiser goes a new way Sunday, with a different …

• Best bets on the Tube

  June 25, 2012 in Sports on Page B2 Michael Phelps could have a showdown with rival Ryan Lochte on the very first day of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. USA Swimming announced Sunday that Phelps passed on the …

• Watching what we say: TV gets bad rap for being inert activity

  March 11, 2012 in Features on Page D1 One classic criticism of TV watching is that it’s a passive activity. And sure, there might be times when we appear to be slack-jawed lumps of recliner ballast while viewing. …

• Lopez tonight!

  February 17, 2012 in Features on Page C1 George Lopez has hosted his own talk show, starred in his own sitcom, appeared in movies and on the radio, and he’s provided voice acting for animated features such as …

• Alan Sues, a regular on TV’s ‘Laugh-In,’ dies at 85

  December 2, 2011 in Nation/World Alan Sues, the actor best known as a flamboyantly campy regular on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” in the late 1960s and early ’70s, has died. He was 85.

• Coming to a debate near you - ‘The Donald’

  December 2, 2011 in Nation/World Real estate mogul Donald Trump will moderate a Republican presidential debate in Iowa a week before the state holds the first in the nation caucuses. 5

• One billion watched Spain’s win

  July 12, 2011 in Sports on Page B2 The 2010 World Cup final was probably seen by at least 1 billion people, though the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony appears to retain top spot as the most-watched televised …

• On this pinnacle day, we look at eating in front of the TV

  February 6, 2011 in Features on Page D1 In a way, Super Bowl Sunday is a festive celebration of one of America’s beloved bad habits. No, not football – eating in front of the TV.

• TV fans drop satellite, cable for options online

  February 3, 2011 in Business on Page A1 Count Jason and Theresa Kirchner among the recent converts to the cord-cutting movement. The Hayden couple decided to switch from traditional TV service to Web-based viewing, saying they wished they’d … 20

• Local FOX affiliate, DirecTV talks break down

  December 31, 2010 in City DirecTV said early this evening that its customers in Spokane no longer will be able to view Fox affiliate KAYU-TV after midnight following the breakdown of negotiations between the company … 22

• Report: Keep incentive for movie, TV shoots

  December 1, 2010 in Business, City A report that recommends Washington renew a four-year-old program that supports movie, television and commercial production was forwarded to lawmakers today by the Joint Legislative Audit & Review Committee. 16

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