Steve Daley

At his first meeting with a Western leader after becoming general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, drew glowing notices from...

The dawn of the ''people-meter'' era and a competitive field in the national television rating services produced a few discrepancies in the first week of the 1987-88 prime-time TV season....

It could be said of former CIA director William Casey that the death of a public figure seldom has been of more use to more people. Casey died May 6,...

The truth is, we haven`t seen a good old cartoon Texan on TV since that sniveling J.R. Ewing turned up on ''Dallas,'' whining about leveraged buyouts without so much as...

Gary Hart`s ''I Am Not a Saint'' interview with Ted Koppel on ABC`s ''Nightline'' Tuesday kept Chicago viewers up late. The hourlong session averaged a 14.5 rating, falling off in...

The television satellite trucks are humming in anticipation, and local TV anchormen are winging into Miami to join their network colleagues in marking the Thursday arrival of Pope John Paul...

When I walked into the ABC studios on West 66th Street in Manhattan, a security guard took a break from monitoring the television testimony of Lt. Col. Oliver North before...

Consider for a moment last Monday evening at 10 o`clock. On television, the Bears were losing to the St. Louis Cardinals on Channel 7, the Cubs were beating the Houston...

If you`re a devoted column reader, a monitor of Op-Ed pages, a fan of James J. Kilpatrick or Ellen Goodman or Andy Rooney or any of a host of pundits...

In local television, spending 20 years as an anchor at the same station is akin to spending your adult life working for New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner: It`s a...