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Four years ago with Jon Stewart signing off the nightly airwaves and Stephen Colbert leaving the relative freedom of Comedy Central for the more tightly regulated network world, I worried about the future of political satire on TV. But as of last weekend, I am officially worried no more.

By David Zurawik

Feb 18, 2019

Verizon FiOS subscribers across the country are suffering a sudden television blackout of key broadcast channels this week after the company’s content negotiations with a major media company, Tegna, fell through. Affected channels include WUSA, the CBS station in Washington.

UMBC’s upset of the University of Virginia in last year’s NCAA men's basketball tournament is the kind of feel-good sports story you can’t get enough of, and the CBS Sports Network is serving up another tasty helping tonight at 7 on its “Four Sides of the Story” series.

By David Zurawik

Nov 19, 2018

The timing of "Murphy Brown" return to TV, on the same day as the Kavanaugh hearing, could not have been more perfect.

By David Zurawik

Sep 25, 2018

Even in this era of nanosecond news cycles, what happened at CBS News in the last year warrants a moment or two of reflection. There are some darker truths here to be absorbed — such as how deep and wide the roots of patriarchy reach throughout not just the media but the entire culture.

By David Zurawik

Sep 12, 2018

Maryland is scheduled to make only one national network appearance in 2018-19, against Michigan on March 3 in College Park.

By Don Markus

Sep 6, 2018

Sinclair Broadcast Group has removed its network affiliate TV stations from the Playstation Vue streaming service in a dispute with Sony

By Lorraine Mirabella

May 4, 2018

Men’s lacrosse analyst Evan Washburn has some thoughts on the four teams he picks to make the Final Four on Memorial Day weekend, his leading candidate for the Tewaaraton Award and the need for instant replay.

By Edward Lee

Apr 16, 2018

There will be no lineup of Orioles baseball games on WJZ or any other over-the-air Baltimore broadcast channels this season, the CBS-owned station and Orioles confirmed Tuesday.

By David Zurawik

Mar 27, 2018

This is what a cultural reckoning looks like. Eight days after Norah O'Donnell and Gayle King spoke movingly of their reactions to allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior by CBS colleague Charlie Rose, a shaken Savannah Guthrie told viewers today that Matt Lauer had been fired at NBC.

By David Zurawik

Nov 29, 2017

Sinclair Broadcast Group has announced a multi-year deal to renew three TV station affiliation agreements with CBS Corp.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Sep 12, 2017

Former Ravens coach Brian Billick and CBS Sports sideline reporter Evan Washburn will join WBAL's Gerry Sandusky to call the Baltimore team's four preseason games, the station announced today.

By David Zurawik

Jul 13, 2017

From Stephen Colbert's crude description of Donald Trump's mouth, to Kathy Griffin and Reza Aslan, we have turned a corner in media talk. And it is not a good thing.

By David Zurawik

Jun 9, 2017

After six years of mostly third-place finishes in network news race, Scott Pelley is out as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News.”

By David Zurawik

May 31, 2017

Last season, Army West Point beat Navy in the 117th Army-Navy football game, the most-watched game in 24 years, ending the Midshipmen's 14-game winning streak.

CBS Radio will merge into Entercom Communications Corp in a deal announced Thursday by Entercom and CBS Corp. The deal, subject to regulatory approvals and a vote by Entercom's board, is expected to close in the second half of the year. Operating under the Entercom brand, the combined company will have 244 stations, including four in Baltimore.

By Sarah Gantz

Feb 2, 2017

Just as you can often tell a lot about a team’s character by how it performs in games that no longer matter in the standings, so it is with broadcast crews and

By David Zurawik

Jan 1, 2017

Rebecca Polen "Becky" Hartman Obituary

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 4, 2016

Part 1 of Q&A with CBS Sports Network men's lacrosse analyst Evan Washburn

By Edward Lee

Apr 11, 2016

CBS plans to sell one of its legacy brands: CBS Radio. The brand includes some Baltimore radio staples, including sports talk station 105.7 The Fan.

The Orioles and CBS Radio's 105.7 The Fan (WJZ-FM), the flagship station of the Orioles Radio Network, have announced that 12 spring training games will be broadcast in 2016.

With virtually no broadcast experience, Evan Washburn has worked his way up from production assistant to Super Bowl sideline reporter.

By David Zurawik

Feb 5, 2016

A coalition of local and national media outlets has intervened in court to call for broader transparency and increased access to legal documents in the prosecution of the Baltimore police officers in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.

By Kevin Rector

Jan 5, 2016

The NFL announced Tuesday that the Ravens' game against the Cincinnati Bengals this weekend would air on Fox, not CBS. That's because of a practice called "cross-flexing."

By Alexander Pyles

Dec 30, 2015

In a game as exciting as the Ravens-Steelers, you want the announcers to stay out of the way and let the play speak for itself. CBS delivered solid coverage all game.

By David Zurawik

Dec 27, 2015

CBS analyst Steve Tasker pointed out Ravens quarterback Matt Schaub's 'penchant for the pick-six.' He was right.

By David Zurawik

Dec 6, 2015

Jon Stewart and "Star Trek," two of the most successful franchises in media history, are returning to television. But neither is actually going to be on TV. Stewart signed a four-year contract with HBO, and "Star Trek" has a new deal with CBS. Each development was big news last week for millions of fans. But taken together, they have something even larger to say to all of us: The digital future for TV is arriving a lot faster than many analysts thought. In fact, when it comes to the very best TV

By David Zurawik

Nov 6, 2015

If Tuesday night's premiere is any indication, latenight network TV is going to be a lot more political and politically savvy with Stephen Colbert at the desk for "The Late Show" on CBS.

By David Zurawik

Sep 9, 2015

A campaigner who supports stricter gun laws delivered a card of condolence to Baltimore's CBS station after a two staffers at one of the network's affiliates in Virginia were shot as they filmed an interview last week.

By Ian Duncan

Aug 29, 2015

Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest TV broadcasters in the U.S., said Wednesday they've agreed on the outline of a new contract, one day after Sinclair's channels went dark for Dish customers.

Buddy Baker, a former Daytona 500 winner and NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee, has died after a brief battle with lung cancer. Mr. Baker was 74.

The company attributed the better-than-expected results partly to higher "retransmission consent fees," or fees that cable and satellite providers pay broadcasters to include their signals in channel lineups.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Aug 5, 2015

The U.S. victory over Japan in the FIFA Women's World Cup championship Sunday night on Fox scored the highest rating ever for a soccer game on a single network.

By David Zurawik

Jul 6, 2015

Spieth¿s ascent means mIllions in Under Armour media exposure. Company charting his progress.

Just when you think reality TV can't go lower, comes CBS' "The Briefcase."

Retired former Ravens outside linebacker Adalius Thoms is participating in the NFL's ninth annual broadcasting boot camp.

By Aaron Wilson

May 30, 2015

TV's best offerings are streaming

By David Zurawik

May 29, 2015

Press credibility takes another hit with the disclosure that ABC's George Stephanopoulos donated $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Departures signal fading media power of a generation

By David Zurawik

May 15, 2015

W. Ronald "Ron" Smith, a retired broadcasting executive who began his career on WFBR-AM in Baltimore, died April 17 at his Egg Harbor Township home in New Jersey of a heart attack. He was 75.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Apr 24, 2015

CBS Sports Network men's lacrosse analyst Evan Washburn provided commentary on No. 19 Navy's 10-7 victory over Patriot League rival Army on Saturday. Washburn, a former defenseman for Delaware, will cover Saturday's game between No. 6 Duke and No. 15 Marquette.

By Edward Lee

Apr 13, 2015

If you¿re trying to find a way to listen or watch Friday¿s home opener, the Orioles switched flagship radio stations in January. CBS Radio's WJZ (105.7 FM) will broadcast all 162 regular-season games, as well as pregame and postgame shows.

Melinda Roeder, winner 12 regional Emmys while at WBFF (Fox45), is joining WGCL-TV, the CBS affiliate in Atlanta, she said today.

By David Zurawik

Mar 9, 2015

I had a ringside seat for this TV moment today when Fox News host Bill O'Reilly came out swinging on "Media Buzz" against Eric Engberg and a Facebook post the former CBS newsman wrote Saturday about O'Reilly's performance as a coprrespondent in Argentina as the Falklands War ende

By David Zurawik

Feb 22, 2015

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has been denouncing a "Mother Jones" story questioning his combat reporting during the Falklands conflict in 1982 as a "partisan hit job" since it was published Thursday.

By David Zurawik

Feb 21, 2015

ABC, CBS may emphasize good journalism as good business

By David Zurawik

Feb 15, 2015

The confession of NBC news anchor Brian Williams that he lied — or as he put it "conflated" — about being aboard an Army helicopter shot down in Iraq in 2003 has revived the issue of a prominent television journalist's credibility, especially one sitting almost as an icon in one of today's coveted network anchor chairs.

By Jules Witcover

Feb 9, 2015

I joined Sharyl Attkisson and Paul Farhi on Howie Kurtz's "Media Buzz" today to talk about the growing nightmare for Brain Willaims and NBC News since "Stars and Stripes" reported Wednesday on his lies about covering the the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

By David Zurawik

Feb 8, 2015

NFL's power over its broadcast outlets has gone too far

By David Zurawik

Jan 30, 2015