Steve Daley

You can watch WGN-TV`s 40-year retrospective Thursday night and get past the idea of Geraldo Rivera as host. Really, you can. It`s true that the choice of Rivera-who preens and...

The talk of convention ''bounces'' has abated, leaving us adrift in a sea of meaningless, cosponsored media polls. Will November never come? The network anchors, those ultimate arbiters of political...

Say what you will about Sen. Dan Quayle. The Man From Indiana looks more like a television weatherman than any human being who ever accepted a spot on a presidential...

When you start out covering City Hall for a Chicago radio station and wind up with your own weekend anchor shift for your basic large American television network, that ought...

And there he was, on cable television, at 11:30 Monday morning. Former secretary of state and onetime presidential aspirant Alexander Haig was addressing the Republican National Convention. He was not...

The verbal assault on the Democratic National Convention last month, with television news executives bemoaning the low ratings generated by four nights of convention coverage, has had at least a...

The 6 o`clock local newscast has been a staple of Chicago televison since the days of Alex Dreier and Fahey Flynn. It was a peculiarly Midwestern phenomenon, this business of...

Apples and Oranges and Apples Dept.: Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka has been very, very good to WBBM-TV (Ch. 2). And vice versa. Last Friday`s 10:30 p.m. special, ''Mike Ditka:...

It has been 2 1/2 years since Capital Cities Communications assumed control of ABC and began to alter the nature of network television in general, and of network television news...

I swore that I would never do this. I vowed that if anyone was ever foolish enough to ship me to a political convention, I would refrain from comparing it...