Steve Daley

Representatives of a number of political-action groups and something called the ''Chicago Coalition for a Fair Media'' picketed in front of Chicago`s ABC-owned WLS studios at 190 N. State St....

Mixing fierce criticism with jokes and rhetorical flourishes, Mayor Harold Washington told the media Thursday that television news coverage of his administration is too often presented as entertainment. During his...

For a program with a bleak ratings history, the ''CBS Morning News'' is suddenly the talk of the television industry. Friday morning, a trio of CBS Broadcast Group executives met...

It appears that Parade magazine, the popular Sunday-supplement that appears in several hundred newspapers with a circulation of approximately 30 million, decided last week that the truth is like anything...

These days, there are 200 households in Denver where the next step in television ratings is being taken. Arbitron`s ScanAmerica venture, which became operational at the end of 1985, is...

Politicians have learned a good deal about crisis management since the bad old days of Rep. Wilbur Mills, stripper Fanne Foxx and the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. U.S. Rep....

This time of year, television is more obsessed than ever with ratings. May is a ''sweeps'' period, and the three commercial networks have offered up next fall`s slate of prime-time...

Operation PUSH has moved to capitalize on its boycott of CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago by beginning negotiations with stations in Philadelphia and New York that are also owned by the...

Redd Foxx is coming back, again. The first evidence of recent management changes at ABC Entertainment was revealed Wednesday in traditional ''mid-season changes.'' Two new half-hour sitcoms, one starring Foxx,...

Brandon Tartikoff would not characterize his return to Chicago for a round of speechifying next Wednesday at a Chicago Communications luncheon (at the Chicago Marriott) as ''triumphant.'' It is true...