Fox Broadcasting Company

Sinclair renews Fox affiliations, has option to buy local station

2012-05-15 16:44:00

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. will renew Fox Broadcasting Co. affiliations with 19 of its television stations in an agreement that also allows Sinclair to purchase a Fox-owned station in Baltimore. Under the agreement with Fox, Sinclair has the option to...

Sports columnist: A moment that wrote itself

2012-05-10 09:13:00

The date — Sept. 6, 1995 — had been circled on calendars, not just in Baltimore, but throughout the country. The countdown for the Orioles' Cal Ripken Jr. to break Lou Gehrig's consecutive-games record had gone on for months. And yet, if I...

Mitt Romney: Stiff? Unzipped? Jon Stewart joke has Baltimore roots

2012-04-04 03:30:00

Jon Stewart was having some fun Tuesday with the seemingly tepid endorsement some leading Republicans have bestowed upon Mitt Romney. He pointed to the one where John McCain called him the wrong name. Another from former New York Gov. George Pataki who...

'Dancing with the Stars' recap: Results, Seal and Rascal Flatts

2012-04-04 09:03:00

It's our second results show of the season; who's going home? It's got to be one of the "24 is the new 21" scores, right? That'd be Jack, Gladys, Melissa, Gavin or Sherri. I'm thinking Melissa. We start with a performance of Seal, covering "Lean on Me."...

Columbia Digest

2012-04-06 00:00:00

Wine tasting The Town Center Community Association's Wine Tasting event will held from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, at Historic Oakland Manor, 5430 Vantage Point Road. The event includes live music and finger foods. The cost is $10 per person...

Howard County Briefs

2012-04-06 00:00:00

Spring art programs Registration is under way for the Howard County Arts Council's spring programs at the Howard County Center for the Arts, 8510 High Ridge Road in Ellicott City. The programs, for those ages 5 and older, are open to the public and begin...

Slayton House exhibit showcases Columbia photographer Oberman's work

2012-04-06 06:21:00

When you look at the photographs taken by Michael Oberman around Wilde Lake and Lake Kittamaqundi, you can't be blamed for thinking you're out in the wilderness rather than in the center of Columbia. His exhibit at the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton...

Smackdown misses with nostalgic episode

2012-04-10 19:13:00

The fact a commercial for Animal Planet's new series "Tanked" aired during tonight's live Smackdown seems oddly appropriate. With much of the WWE roster already en route to Europe for an upcoming tour, the company tried to make the best of the show by...

O'Malley takes some blame for budget fallout

2012-04-12 15:36:08

Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday accepted some of the blame for the budget impasse that left the state with a spending plan that cuts about half a billion dollars from key Democratic priorities such as education. "We all hold blame," O'Malley, a...

Howard County events calendar

2012-04-13 08:58:00

Listings are accepted on a space-available basis. Events must be open to the public, and priority will be given to those in Howard County. Items typically appear two weeks prior to the date included in the listing if sent far enough in advance. Deadline...

Rick Santorum: What's good for Fox News is bad for the country

2012-02-21 12:39:00

As Wednesday's GOP debate arrives with Rick Santorum now at center stage, it is impossible not to notice how much his rise is welcomed at Fox News. It is also impossible not to see how deeply owner Rupert Murdoch and chief Roger Ailes have already...

Cafe Hon 'Kitchen Nightmares' episode debuts on Friday

2012-02-22 04:00:00

� Here is the blurb for Friday night's "Kitchen Nightmares" episode featuring Cafe Hon, ripped right off the Fox reality show's website: On the Next Episode of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES... Chef Ramsay heads to Baltimore, MD, and immediately has his hands full...

FOX rushed this copycat boxing competition series, fronted by Oscar de la Hoya, onto the air in the fall of 2004 to get ahead of NBC's similar show "The Contender" (which was announced first but didn't debut until early '05).

2012-04-20 19:11:00

The FOX network turns 25 in April 2012. What was a radical idea in the pre-digital age -- starting a fourth broadcast network -- has turned into an integral part of the TV landscape.

2012-04-20 18:55:00

In a 1995 TV special, Fox aired footage of what London resident Ray Santilli claimed to be an alien autopsy. The special featured interviews with well-known experts, including an Oscar-winning make-up artist and a forensic pathologist, who speculated on-air whether the autopsy was authentic.

2012-04-20 14:30:00