Tim Jones

In about four weeks, Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile will get the long-awaited addition of the Viacom Entertainment Store, the two-level, 30,000-square-foot retail playland that will showcase many of the giant...

His name was Robert R. McCormick, a president but not yet the Colonel. He was 33 and had been president of the Tribune for three years. On this date, McCormick...

First, the talk was about the great potential of Tiger Woods, the golfer. Now, with the green Masters jacket around his shoulders, people can talk about the potential of Tiger...

Although the picture was scrambled--often to the point that it was completely unrecognizable--there was seldom any doubt about the nature of all that on-screen action accompanying the groans and moans....

See? We're not dead after all. So say the nation's cable operators, the much-maligned--and sometimes deservedly so--purveyors of dozens of news and entertainment channels to more than 65 million U.S....

By the middle of 1847, Chicago had shaken off much of the transient appearance of a frontier settlement and was attracting attention as an up-and-coming city. In July, 20,000 visitors...

Larry Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of Oracle Corp., said his company will launch a "very aggressive TV ad campaign" next year to promote the network computer--the stripped-down, low-cost...

Fast-food outlets have been hawking movie merchandise for years, luring kids and their weary parents with an endless supply of promotional cups, action figures and other plastic merchandise to complement...

O.J. books, O.J. videos, O.J. television coverage. Now, not surprisingly, the logical spinoff: a feature film on the O.J. Simpson trial. Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures has signed an agreement with...

With Monday's long-expected announcement that Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp. were forming a super-regional telephone company, questions about the fate of the three remaining original Baby Bells kept phone...