January 25, 2005

April 5, 2005

The Diamondbacks will be a bit easier to find on the television next season. The organization announced Friday that it has granted exclusive television rights to FSN Arizona, ending its 10-year relationship with KTVK (Ch. 3).

The Ahwatukee Bowl is going national. ESPNU is slated to broadcast of the annual showdown between Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe's football teams. DV principal Anna Battle confirmed Friday that both schools have signed contracts to televise the game.

Dramatic images of the war in Iraq have left people across the country struggling to decide when to watch TV and when to turn it off.

Fox Sports Net Arizona will televise the Arizona-Arizona State baseball game at Chase Field at 5 p.m. April 2.

Fox Sports Net Arizona will televise the Arizona-Arizona State baseball game at Chase Field at 5 p.m. April 2.

NEW YORK — The Fiesta Bowl between teams from non-BCS conferences kept pace in television ratings.

Not only have the television networks begun their fall seasons with some new shows, some have already been canceled.

There are no employees at the House of Broadcasting.

Brillian Corp., a Tempe-based start-up company spun off from Three-Five Systems, unveiled its new high-definition television Thursday at a stockholders meeting, drawing gasps from attendees who viewed the ultra-sharp pictures for the first time.

May 14, 2004

The day after Sam Puzzo watches “24” he enters the office like a white-collar version of Jack Bauer, hero of the Fox espionage-and-terror series: scanning work stations for people he can trust, on high alert for those without clearance to hear his report.

The teen years are notoriously turbulent, rife with stresses, real and imagined. But at least you get more interesting television than your younger siblings do, as two new cable series demonstrate.

Back when I wrote this article about a local affiliate of the Parents Television Council, it took me a long time to figure out a way to write something that didn’t make me seethe: It was pretty common knowledge that a majority of the complaints “received” from the PTC were form letters with a spot for a signature and, in the online cases, a handy click-and-send button. A majority were from people who hadn’t even seen the programming in question.

"Pretty primitive" and "held together by baling wire" are terms founders of KAET-TV (Channel 8) use to describe getting the public TV station up and running from the Tempe campus of ASU.

SALT LAKE CITY - A new type of digital television service that uses local stations' transmitters to beam programming over traditional airwaves announced national aspirations on Tuesday.

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Robert A. Schuller remembers working hard as a child for his father’s fledgling church, cranking out Sunday programs on a mimeograph machine and spending hours tiling the floor of a new church building.

SAN FRANCISCO - Bud Werner and his wife are longtime movie buffs. For more than a year, he pined for a flat-panel television, thrilled by 60-inch screens thin enough to hang on a wall and turn his living room into a mini-movie theater.

It can’t be coincidence that the word "star" can refer to heavenly bodies either celestial or celluloid. We’re entranced and fascinated by both, catching glimpses through telescopes (or telephoto lenses) in the observatory (or the Observer).

February 22, 2005

A merger this week between the WB and UPN television networks was such a surprise that its impact on Valley sports fans and the local television scene is still mostly unknown.

Andrew Myers, a 20-yearold college student from New York, loves to watch Jon Stewart, David Letterman, ‘‘South Park’’ and ‘‘Seinfeld’’ reruns. Many days, he doesn’t turn on the television until 11 p.m.