Are you a fan of “Britcoms” like As Time Goes By or Keeping Up Appearances? Do you love the travel adventure program, Globe Trekker? Can’t wait to settle in every Sunday night for Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey? These PBS programs, unlike the CSIs and the NCISs of network TV, are brought to you by a station that depends on public support – KAET-TV (Channel 8). And in March, Channel 8 needs folks like you to help man the phones during its pledge drive.

If your Wii was flashing blue yesterday, as mine was, then you should know it’s not your friends leaving you a message or sending you their Mii avatar. (Sorry.) Instead, Nintendo rolled out the U.S. version of the Nintendo Channel on Wednesday, and they are eager for you to download it and agree to all their terms.

Clear Channel Communications, the nation’s largest radio station operator, said Thursday it has agreed to be acquired for about $18.7 billion by an investment group.

For Steve Bellamy, the chance to own a tennis tournament was too good to pass. Bellamy, president and founder of The Tennis Channel, has reached an agreement to purchase the Arizona Men’s Tennis Classic from sports marketing agency IMG.

Clear Channel Communications plans to relocate all eight of its Valley radio stations, including four that are now based in Tempe, into a new office building on Van Buren Street about one mile from the Tempe-Phoenix border.

NEW YORK - Al-Qaida-linked terror groups and their sympathizers have in recent months made a big splash on the Internet, making it their communications channel of choice.

Mesa real estate entrepreneur Doug Hopkins will appear in the second season of Property Wars, a Discovery Channel reality show about the bidding wars of the Valley real estate market.

After 11 years of dominating the No. 1 slot for 10 p.m newscasts, KPNX-TV (Channel 12) dropped to No. 2, according to ratings released Thursday by Nielsen Media Research.

If "Shark Week" personality Philip DeFranco had to choose between being devoured by a shark or piranhas, he's already made up his mind.

NEW YORK -- Martha Stewart is heading to cable. The lifestyle queen has signed a deal to move her daily program to the Hallmark Channel, effective this September. "The Martha Stewart Show" is currently syndicated to broadcast channels across the country

Chris Coppola: Channel flipping isn't just for sports fanatics and bored couch potatoes anymore. In fact, flipping between CNN, FOX News and MSNBC can be downright fascinating - as it was Thursday morning when President Obama was giving his latest  speech on health care reform before a university crowd.

LONDON -- First the ship reported it had been attacked in waters off Sweden. Then it sailed with no apparent problems through one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. And then it disappeared.

The second season of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” premieres tonight (7 p.m., Fox). Last year (well, earlier this year) was like an inverted bell curve for me - really dug it at the beginning, lost interest in the middle, liked it again towards the end.

That’s right. Our long regional nightmare is over. It went live in my house in central Tempe Sept. 3 on test channel 666.

A Scottsdale activist who has requested a television show on the city’s cable channel is awaiting a new policy that will determine who is allowed air time on the government-funded network.

What a shocker! In an email sent out today, Cox Communications Arizona announced that they’re delaying the launch of USA HD, Lifetime HD and CNBC HD from the originally announced date of today to Monday, July 21.

So, apparently I did not post any blogs last week. Not one time! Let’s call it an early spring break and move on. Just imagine me doing everything that happened in “Where the Boys are ‘84″ and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the hijinx I got up to.

NEW YORK - Providence Equity Partners said Sunday it was "surprised and disappointed" by a lawsuit filed Friday by Clear Channel Communications Inc. to force the private-equity firm to complete its purchase of Clear Channel television stations.

The English Channel is both a fear and a goal in many long distance swimmers’ minds. With bone-chilling temperatures and miles of choppy ocean, Scottsdale resident Brad Denton swam his way through these waters and accomplished a personal goal not many swimmers can say they have achieved.