Sports
Extreme sports such as street luge and in-line skating moved closer to the middle of the road Thursday as NBC and magazine publisher Petersen Cos. announced plans for a series of televised sports festivals that will challenge ESPN’s X Games, an increasingly popular television showcase for unconventional sports.
Nov. 6, 1998
California
North County voters appeared to be creating their own tale of two cities Tuesday, breaking free of county rule once and for all and establishing new local governments in Solana Beach and San Dieguito.
June 4, 1986
Television
Although television remains awash in sexual content -- including more scenes of actual or implied intercourse -- producers are generally doing a better job of incorporating “safer-sex” messages into programs, according to a biennial study by the Henry J.
Feb. 5, 2003
Entertainment & Arts
Technology: People who create programming are working to catch the next ‘big thing.’
April 28, 1997
White House drug policymakers, undeterred by the flak they caught earlier this year for quietly trying to sprinkle anti-drug messages into some of the nation’s most popular television shows, want to expand into an even bigger arena: the silver screen.
July 11, 2000
Awards
NBCUniversal and Lexus are partnering on a novel advertising campaign that will encourage viewers of “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” to suggest concepts in real time for an ad that will be performed live later during the same night’s telecast.
Sept. 18, 2013
Skeptics say that live theater has barely a prayer of coming across well on TV and that theater can’t flourish anywhere without star actors and name playwrights.
July 10, 2005
As adorable child stars of hit TV series begin to mature, producers scramble to adjust.
July 7, 2007
Los Angeles radio station Star 98.7 (KYSR) is planning to pioneer a new kind of radio broadcasting that sends music not to stereo receivers but to personal computers.
Nov. 15, 1996