Steve Daley

A friend of mine has spent some time laboring in California`s Republican vineyards, and, like George Bush`s advisers, she`s amused when she hears of Michael Dukakis` aggressive new ''attack'' campaign....

''Adventures in Babysitting.'' It`s a movie, sort of a comedy, and it stars a woman named Elizabeth Shue, I think. Attractive young woman with a pleasing manner, great hair and...

On the bright, cold morning of Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger rose from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral while millions of American television viewers watched game shows...

Walter Jacobson and WBBM-Ch. 2 are on the cusp of a new five-year agreement, for an estimated $5 million. The contract would end speculation that the anchorman might leave Channel...

Syndicated columnists and political yakkers have expended time, energy and acres of newsprint offering unsolicited advice to George Bush and Michael Dukakis as Sunday`s first presidential debate draws near. The...

Last week in this corner, the discussion was of ''grazing,'' the television phenomenon in which viewers use remote-control devices and the VCR to romp around the dial in search of...

The networks have been stretching their institutional legs of late, perhaps because the current presidential campaign is such a wretched exercise in nonnews. NBC offered reports on a number of...

You know how you watch TV. Here comes the commercial on ''The Cosby Show,'' and you`re off to get a Cubs score. Here comes the weatherman with the orange hair,...

Watching the 40th anniversary show put together by WGN-TV (Channel 9) last week, I was delighted to see one of those vintage 1950s quiz shows wherein the distinguished host and...

You may be an ardent consumer of news, or of what passes for news in the waning days of the 20th Century. Maybe it`s the hay fever, but I`ve been...