WTTW gets no flak over blunt `Frontline’
WTTW-Ch. 11 said Wednesday that it has gotten no viewer complaints after airing a graphic episode of "Frontline" Tuesday night about U.S. soldiers in Iraq. "We haven't gotten any negative...
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NBC outlets to air benefit for victims
NBC Universal will host a prime-time telethon to raise money for victims of the deadly earthquake and tsunami that struck South Asia last week, the network announced Monday. The one-hour...
PBS tries to stabilize sources of funding
Buffeted by controversies over its programming and weary of justifying its existence year after year to a skeptical Congress, PBS is seeking more-reliable and -permanent access to public funding than...
Networks steer clear of woes seen in 2000
Compared with the 2000 election, when every television network wrongly projected first Vice President Al Gore, and then George W. Bush, the winner in Florida, the networks put in a...
TV news casts vote for caution
As the major television networks prepare to cover Tuesday's election, they insist that there will be no replay of the catastrophic failures of 2000, when every network wrongly projected Al...
Campaign Dispatches
DURBIN VS. DOCUMENTARY Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and 15 other Democratic senators complained Monday to the Federal Communications Commission that a program to be shown on the Sinclair Broadcasting...
Campaign Dispatches
WEB WOES Grilled by John Edwards in Tuesday night's debate over alleged improprieties at Halliburton Co., Vice President Dick Cheney calmly dismissed the complaints as a political "smoke screen" and...
CBS apologizes for Guard story
CBS News, in a stunning concession, said Monday that it was "deliberately misled" about the authenticity of documents that questioned President Bush's service in the Air National Guard and apologized...
`Oprah’ car giveaway drives off with 8-year ratings high
The premiere episode of the 19th season of the "Oprah Winfrey Show", during which host Winfrey gave away a car to each member of the audience, drew the show's largest...
Debate rages over CBS memos on Bush service
Responding to challenges to the authenticity of records showing that President Bush shirked National Guard duty, CBS News on Monday stood by its story, but First Lady Laura Bush said...