World & Nation
Public television station WNET in New York City hopes to raise $1.5 million a year by hopping on a TV bandwagon: establishing a home-shopping service.
April 22, 1987
Politics
When it was first announced that Bill Moyers would present a TV program about the White House entitled “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” (“Frontline, PBS, April 23), it raised false hopes that he would tell about the Johnson Administration, which he was part of.
May 12, 1991
Entertainment & Arts
“There are some things even Santa Claus can’t do,” says one character at the beginning of “It Nearly Wasn’t Christmas,” a television movie starring Charles Durning that was co-produced last year by North Hollywood-based Ventura Entertainment Group Ltd.
April 17, 1990
Television
Speaking Spanish is not something Giselle Fernandez, the half-Mexican, half-Jewish co-anchor of the entertainment television show “Access Hollywood,” takes for granted.
Nov. 8, 1997
Awards Tracker
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June 14, 2011
Media: Networks bow to pressure from Clinton in agreeing to programming three hours a week. Pact is considered election-year coup for president.
July 30, 1996
California
Officials at KOCE-TV say they hope to continue the same level of public television programming, even though they are uncertain of the impact of a decision to establish a training academy at the station.
May 9, 1986
America’s four major television networks are generally responsible in the way they portray violence in entertainment programming, although excessive violence remains a problem in their airing of theatrical films, children’s fare and on-air promotions, according to an intensive, yearlong study released Tuesday by the UCLA Center for Communication Policy.
Sept. 20, 1995
Loring Gives Thanks: Actress and singer Gloria Loring hosts the third annual “Thanks for Giving” Juvenile Diabetes Foundation special Sunday on USA Cable Network.
Nov. 24, 1989
Technology and the Internet
Roku Inc., the leading maker of devices for streaming Internet video on televisions, hopes to raise up to $252 million with an initial public stock offering.
Sept. 18, 2017