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Each online episode of "A Few Odd Minutes in Howard County" opens in black-and-white with eerie music and a low-tech graphic of sparking electrical current that pays homage to 1960s' television series.

Here's what's going on in schools around the Reisterstown-Owings Mills-Glyndon area.

Here's what's going on in schools in Baltimore County.

There is no doubt that TV ads played a major role in Tuesday's Democratic primary election for mayor, which Catherine Pugh won by only 2,574 votes over Sheila Dixon. The question is how much the outcome was shaped by the money spent on a highly sophisticated media effort for Pugh — and against Dixon.

Watchathon provides a free all-access pass to Xfinity TV customers to more than 250 shows from 50 networks.

With the six leading candidates in Baltimore's Democratic mayoral primary now airing ads, it's time for a report card.

Democrats and Republicans running for Baltimore mayor and U.S. Senate will meet in separate debates this week sponsored by The Baltimore Sun, WJZ, University of Baltimore and League of Women Voters.

In what experts in corporate governance believe is a first by a major money management firm, Baltimore-based T. Rowe Group is taking a stand against the growing number of public companies with two or more classes of stock that give a few insiders disproportionate voting rights.

As a high-level Division I athlete and aspiring broadcaster, Chloe Pavlech occupies an unlikely space in the media-sports Venn diagram. She has come to realize that success on the court and in the broadcast studio is possible. And when you can combine the two? All the better.

A look ahead to the best matchups in men's and women's college lacrosse this week, plus key stats and upcoming TV schedule.

DeRay Mckesson and Catherine Pugh are running two different types of campaigns in Baltimore's mayoral race.

The Mayor's Office of Cable and Communications (MOCC) is currently renegotiating the existing Comcast television franchise agreement struck 12 years ago. Part of that discussion — perhaps the most important part — should be focused on broadband, considering that the same cables that deliver TV also carry the Internet. And access to high-speed Internet is of much greater importance to Baltimore than the latest episode of "Walking Dead."

Paul Giamatti as Honore de Balzac, author and debauched coffee addict. The big-body rap artist Action Bronson on tour eating great food and smoking pot in epic quantities. And some of the best backstage reporting on the presidential campaign in any medium. After years of hearing experts say television was on the way out, it might shock some to know that there is actually more TV than ever. Lots more, and the people, performances and topics listed above are included in some of the best, brightest

Comcast customers across the U.S. experienced outages with service Monday, with interruptions reported from Boston to the Baltimore-Washington region.

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

A new 10-year agreement with cable giant Comcast is set to be approved for Carroll Feb. 11 by the nine members of the Carroll Cable Regulatory Commission (CCRC). The CCRC is composed of one representative from each of the eight municipalities and one from county government. Here's the problem — the agreement wasn't released to the public for review and comment until Dec. 11 at the height of the holiday season, though the CCRC has been negotiating it with Comcast for the last six years.

With about a month to go before the county must decide whether to renew its cable contract, the Community Media Center has launched a campaign to extend the contract review period by 90 days.

As the new year begins, I won't offer a list of resolutions. Instead, here's another installment of pet peeves that make me grind my teeth.

The American market is rigged to redistribute wealth upward, to the already rich, says Robert Reich.

Comcast is equipping 16 community centers around Baltimore with free wireless Internet and web-connected computers as it also expands eligibility for its Internet Essentials service.

As cities including Westminster gain a gigabit of Internet capacity, Baltimore leaders are playing catch-up as they look to boost broadband access in the city.

Baltimore Gas and Electric sued the city of Baltimore on Friday, asking a court to overturn the city's decision last month to more than triple the fee it charges the utility to use its underground conduit system.

The Rawlings-Blake administration announced plans Monday to more than triple the rate Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. pays to use the city's vast underground conduit system, a cost the utility has threatened to pass on to city residents as a $8 monthly fee.

Maybe it's because he lives here and knows the city better than most national correspondents who came only for the riots. Or, maybe it's just because Adam May is a fine TV reporter.

Closing the digital divide requires large-scale push beyond computer literacy to universal broadband

Carroll County department heads and the county commissioners say they had the opportunity to become more informed on issues facing the state and network with officials from all levels of government, benefits that would not be possible on such a broad level without attending the Maryland Association of Counties Summer Conference

Louis R. "Lou" Cedrone Jr., the former Evening Sun film, theater and television critic whose reviews spanned the era from Jayne Mansfield to Madonna, died of a massive stroke. The longtime Lutherville resident was 92.

The owner of the Elkridge Furnace Inn appears in an episode of "Table 2 Table," a cable television program that last week won a first-place award for Howard Community College in international competition — the show's third accolade this year.

All of the films discussed here focused on Sandtown, the neighborhood in which Freddie Gray lived and was arrested before he died from injuries sustained while in police custody. And all of the films include multiple images of the same wall murals that commemorate Gray. But each of the films then moves on from those shared visual depictions of Gray to plug events surrounding his death into the different narratives that fit their point of view.

The Community Media Center will see new upgrades that will allow the nonprofit to convert from analog to digital, after securing an approximately $1.34 million loan, unanimously approved by the Carroll County Board of Commissioners at their Thursday open session.

When Linda Livesay moved to a neighborhood off of Bachman Valley Road in Manchester nine years ago, one of the last things on her mind was a fast, reliable Internet connection.

Last week's settlement between the Justice Department and five giant banks reveals the appalling weakness of modern antitrust.

After more than two months of requests, deliberations and hearings, Carroll County's Fiscal Year 2016 budget is finally complete.

Local agencies and foundation are reviewing an outpouring of demand from Baltimore businesses and neighborhoods for relief following last month's unrest with a combination of hope and helplessness

Unsurprisingly, the majority of comments during the county's Fiscal Year 2016 public hearing Thursday night centered on the funding shortfall for the Carroll County Public School system.

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners will be holding a public hearing to address the Fiscal Year 2016 budget today, and while the board was able to meet roughly $10 million in requests from the county's agencies and allied organizations, about $15 million in requests went unaddressed.

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to unrestrict revenue normally appropriated for the Community Media Center and reallocate it for increases to nine of the 11 nonprofits funded by county government in Fiscal Year 2016. The vote was 4-1, with Commissioner Richard Rothschild, R-District 4, dissenting.

Greater Homewood Community Corp.'s annual Neighborhood Institute focuses on topics ranging from how to better Baltimore's corridors like Greenmount Avenue and York Road to how to be like the top 20 neighborhoods in Live Baltimore's survey, many of them in North Baltimore.

Mid-Atlantic Sports Network is 10 years old. Here's how it navigates between serving two teams.

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners completed its first round of agency meetings regarding the Fiscal Year 2016 budget, and each of the six organizations have made it clear that significant funding increases will be needed to continue to operate efficiently.

Laurel TV has won a Telly Award for a series of promos featuring iconic landmarks and local residents and leaders.

ABC, CBS may emphasize good journalism as good business

Claims that workers are worth no more than they can get in the market forget that markets are created by people.

After her son¿s battle with leukemia, the University of Maryland women¿s basketball coach makes the most of time with her family.

ISPs fears about net neutrality are wildly overblown.

The Carroll County Public Network, a collaboration of various public and government organizations intent on providing fiber-optic Internet access to both public and private entities, has plans to utilize their capabilities to help provide wireless Internet to residents and businesses in parts of the county that do not currently have it.