The camera looks down a stretch of straight country highway, then in bold, white letters appears the following: "This is a shocking story. It could never take place in most American towns—but it did in this one. It is a public challenge not to...

"The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" became one of the most familiar slogans on television for the American Broadcast Company (ABC) sports show that lived up to its title. Beginning as a summer replacement in 1961, Wide World...

Lynn Swann is thinking about running for Congress. The former Pittsburgh Steelers star, a Republican who lost Pennsylvania's gubernatorial race last fall, said Thursday he has been approached to run for the Pittsburgh-area seat held by Democratic Rep. Jason Altmire."I'm still collecting information," Swann, of...

When a television-news friend of NFL Network anchor Rich Eisen e-mailed him pictures of herself in a bikini, they were intercepted _ by his wife.Alycia Lane, anchor for Philadelphia's KYW-TV, said the vacation pictures were part of "harmless" banter between "two old friends," not an...

Tom Moore, who in the 1960s helped the fledgling ABC Television Network become a competitive rival of CBS and NBC, has died. He was 88.Moore, who also won several Emmy awards as head of his own production company, died Saturday of congestive heart failure in...

The NBA's new television contracts with ESPN/ABC and TNT include rights to technologies that have yet to be invented, an indication of the importance the deals place on newer forms of media.The eight-year extensions go through the 2015-16 season. The current six-year contracts expire at...