Steve Nidetz

The press release from HBO promoting Tuesday night's debut of a documentary on coaches says it all: "Each man had a distinctive approach to coaching that made him a unique...

H orace Newcomb has a big job ahead of him. As editor of "The Encyclopedia of Television," the Museum of Broadcast Communications' new curator hopes the two-volume, 1,800-page study will...

Last week, it was "Ice Wars" on CBS. This week, it's the Virginia Slims Championships on ABC. Later, it's women's basketball on CBS and ABC as well as more figure...

All-sports radio station WSCR-AM 820, after nearly a three-year wait, learned Wednesday it finally has been granted a Federal Communications Commission license to broadcast 24 hours a day. "We're all...

Grabbing lustfully for work done by sister station KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, WBBM-Ch. 2 scooped its competition this week with a series of interviews with Lance Ito, the presiding judge...

The Fabulous Sports Babe, while not exactly taking the town by storm in the ratings, is nevertheless leaving her mark at WMVP-AM with a rapid-fire call-in show at 10:05 a.m....

`Sunday Mass at Mercy Home," otherwise known as "Mass for Shut-ins," is looking for a new home for the second time in three years. Speculation is it will land at...

It's as if the 1994 Winter Olympics won't ever go away. And this month, the Disney Channel and CBS give two reasons-one good, the other not-why they won't. The Disney...

WLS-Ch. 7 won its kind of election Tuesday night. The local ABC affiliate had a 17.1 rating with a 26 share between 9 and 10 p.m., compared to a 7.5/11...

Tim Bennett, who studied at Quigley Seminary with thoughts of becoming a priest, almost seems too nice a guy to be thrown into the position of bringing "structure," as he...