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Talk about hitting the floor running, Jeff Zucker looks to have arrived at CNN this month in a flat-out sprint.

Chris Cuomo is leaving ABC to join CNN where he will have a "major role in a new CNN morning show," the cable channel announced Tuesday.

Art Modell has again arrived, this time posthumously, at the doorstep of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He rose to fame and fortune as the owner of the Cleveland Browns, later relocated for no good reason except Modell's poor business sense, to Baltimore and renamed the Ravens.

Timeline of the life of former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver.

Our bachelor, Sean, takes contestant Sarah out for a romantic rendezvous, and then they jump off the side of a building

Maryland's top court could make it much more difficult for undocumented immigrants to secure bail bonds, in a case likely to resolve long-standing questions about whether bondsmen are on the hook when clients get deported before trial.

Cal Thomas says more women in power is a good thing but questions whether they are more able than men to get things done.

The playoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Indianapolis Colts did monster numbers locally, but wound up finishing third for the week nationally among all telecasts with an audience of 29.6 million.

Baltimore native talks about his new network sitcom

I just wanted to give Sean a big ole hug. However, he got his fair share -- and even had one of the ladies try to slip him a little tongue. Yuck.

Sunday night's big victory by the Washington Redskins over the Dallas Cowboys set a record for NBC prime time TV -- and that's saying something for the No. 1 show on television.

Four times as a rookie in 1983, Raul Allegre booted game-winning field goals for the Colts (7-9), who boasted his right leg and little else on offense. The Mexico-born kicker accounted for 112 points, or nearly half of the team's output that year, its last in Baltimore. Colts fans voted him the club's most valuable player.

Call 2012 the year that TV got social - real social.

New sit-com from Baltimore native Winer a broad family comedy, despite political setting

The performance of some of the biggest media outlets in the country Friday would be laughable if the story they were covering wasn't so horrific and tragic: 20 children slaughtered in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

Overall, the Golden Globe nominations proved kind to made-in-Baltimore productions.

Baltimore productions earn mixed reception at Screen Actors Guild award nominations.

Happy 12/12/12! Possibly fueled by this unique bit of numerology, the Internet is buzzing with news this morning. Beatle's guru Ravi Shankar is dead, the pope is an overeager Tweeter and North Korea is making everyone mad again.

Stan Ber's bits and pieces column for week of Dec. 13

Sinclair Broadcast Group said Monday that it has closed on eight television stations it expected to acquire in December and — in a new move — purchased an additional station in New York.

From #SaveBigBird and #womeninbinders, to #Lauerfail and #DrunkDianeSawyer, it seems like we are awash in stories with hashtags these days -- stories about the 140-character wonders of Twitter and their impact on media and politics.

President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman. But neither development is likely to push Maryland's governor off the national stage.

More than two dozen Anne Arundel County parents with special needs children attended the school system's Special Education Roundtable, where school officials sought feedback on ways to serve about 7,900 children in the district.

Joseph B. Kelly, the dean of Maryland turf writers and nationally known thoroughbred historian, died Monday of cancer.

Jules Witcover laments that propagandistic punditry has largely replaced sober discussion of the nation's affairs

The chef-writer takes the stage at the Hippodrome Saturday

Outside of Barack Obama, one of Tuesday's biggest winners was CNN, which not only presented the best journalism but also finished first among cable channels in viewers.

What media outlets are saying about same-sex marriage and the election of the first openly gay U.S. Senator

Both Raw (Monday) and Smackdown (Tuesday) were in Birmingham, England this week. The crowd was so good, that even on the second consecutive night of WWE action, the crowd reaction and party atmosphere rivalled many WWE crowds stateside.

When CNN and NBC News called the election for Barack Obama Tuesday, viewers were offered as clear a snapshot as I have seen of the difference between a news gathering operation like CNN and an propaganda machine like MSNBC.

The partisan media madness started early Tuesday on the "Fox & Friends" morning show with host Steve Doocy somehow turning a report on midnight voting in Dixville Notch, N.H., into an attack on President Barack Obama for his handling of the September attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Organizers continue to work toward the third Grand Prix of Baltimore as IndyCar seeks new leadership

Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. saw its profit grow 33 percent in the third quarter as political campaigns and automakers ramped up spending on advertising, the Hunt Valley-based company said Thursday.

Comedian and actress Whoopi Goldberg brings her stand-up show to Baltimore's Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric.

Baltimore native Jason Winer signed a new deal with 20th Century as NBC announced a premiere date for his sitcom, "1600 Penn," according to the trade publication Variety.

The money, politics and passions surrounding Question 6, the ballot referendum on Maryland's same-sex marriage law, are big, hardcore and hot. Just the kind of story that can go beyond the promotional slogans and be used to measure a local TV station's real commitment to news and public affairs.

Towson High School is known for many reasons — one of them is its exceptional music programs. However, uniforms, performances, scholarships and the overall upkeep of the program require ...

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At first, CNN's Candy Crowley says, she didn't think much about the gender aspect of her selection by the Commission on Presidential Debates. But public reaction has changed her mind.

Baltimore television stations were expecting little in the way of political advertising this campaign year. Then the fight over expanded gambling in Maryland erupted, pitting deep-pocketed and competing casino companies against one another.

The TBS team of Ernie Johnson, Cal Ripken and John Smoltz was outstanding. Johnson, the play by play guy, sets a table as well as anyone this side of Al Michaels. And he was superb all series long at drawing the best out of Ripken and Smoltz, who provided original and insightful analysis.

Vice President Joe Biden didn't score a knockout in Thursday's debate, but he blunted the Romney-Ryan momentum and raised key doubts about the GOP ticket.

The Maryland Home & Garden Show is bringing in Tim Berg and Jim Nyberg, The Duct Tape Guys, for their October show in Timonium.

In TV terms, Biden was a hot mess much of Thursday night. His TV sins included: continually smirking, sometimes grinning and even laughing aloud as Ryan spoke. If you watched on CNN, which held the two men in split screen, Biden was almost insufferable in his reactions.