Entertainment & Arts
When the Public Broadcasting Service trims its children’s series “Wonderworks” to once a month instead of once a week this fall, the move will be more than just a routine cutback.
Aug. 17, 1990
The prime-time access rule, which helped turn early-evening television programs such as “Wheel of Fortune,” “Jeopardy” and “Entertainment Tonight” into household words, is history.
July 29, 1995
World Now
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Feb. 29, 2012
Recent victories in the courts and before the Federal Communications Commission have landed local cable television operators in an enviable position--endowed with exclusive rights to wire up particular cities and at the same time largely free of government regulation.
June 12, 1988
Company Town Blog
Sept. 14, 2009
June 17, 2011
Company Town
“Dr. Oz” has been removed from air in two major markets, thanks to FCC rules that have affected Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films and “The Love Boat.”
Nov. 30, 2021
Television
Perplexed staffers at City Hall once called Channel 5 to ask why Mayor Tom Bradley had heard a woman’s voice speaking in Spanish as he watched anchorman Hal Fishman deliver the news.
Feb. 7, 1991
Sony Pictures Television is replacing the “The Dr. Oz Show” with “The Good Dish” co-hosted by Mehmet Oz’s daughter Daphne Oz, Gail Simmons and Jamika Pessoa.
Dec. 13, 2021
Fred Friendly, former president of CBS News, caused quite a stir last August when he told the Radio and Television News Directors Assn. in Salt Lake City that after years of being an outspoken critic of local TV news, he now thinks that if he were starting his career over again, he’d do it in local news.
Dec. 29, 1986