Steve Daley

As it turned out, Jesse Jackson, Bill Cosby and ''ALF'' had more impact on the Nielsen ratings for the Democratic Party National Convention in Atlanta than all the promos and...

You can begin to gauge the impact of the Cable News Network by the squeals from the broadcast competition at the Democratic National Convention in the Omni Center this week....

We have seen the future in TV coverage of political conventions, and it`s being bounced off the WESTAR 4 satellite. When network news honchos contemplate the herd of satellite trucks...

If WBBM-TV (Ch. 2), the CBS-owned station in Chicago, can emerge from a long period of mediocre ratings, bad management, interference from New York, libel judgments against station anchormen, a...

Desperate times require desperate writing, and NBC programming chief Brandon Tartikoff, who made his name packaging gorilla flicks while at WLS-TV (Ch. 7), has a novel idea for dealing with...

President Reagan lingered at his retreat in Camp David, Md., and the Big Three networks didn`t call in Dan and Tom and Peter from their respective Fourth of July hiatuses....

Movie stars and celebrities don`t get discovered at the soda fountain anymore. But when you look at Mary Hart, as millions of viewers have done since she became cohost of...

Among Midwesterners, there`s little sympathy available for most of the television writers who`ve been on strike against producers and the TV industry in general since March 7. The strike issues,...

According to a report in last week`s Sports Illustrated, a recent poll of American teenagers turned up the disheartening information that their athlete of choice these days is pro wrestler...

There was this article in a recent edition of TV Guide, so it must be true. A panel of critics and ''media pros'' assembled a ''1988 Network News All-Star team,''...