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Millennial Media CEO Michael Barrett says he sees increased competition from Google and Facebook as a sign that the Baltimore company is doing something right. - The Democrats running for governor traded barbs over Maryland's economy, marijuana laws, and the troubled rollout of its health insurance exchange Monday night in their final televised debate before a primary in which pundits suggest many voters are still undecided.
- In their only scheduled debate on Baltimore television, the four Republican candidates for governor depicted Maryland as overtaxed and overspent under a Democratic administration, creating a climate in which businesses are fleeing to neighboring states.
- Baltimore TV station exercised poor judgment with empty podium in gubernatorial debate
- The four Republican candidates focused their fire on the O'Malley administration and avoided criticizing each other as they met Saturday night in the first televised debate of this year's GOP primary contest.
- In race for governor, Anthony Brown is spending more heavily than Douglas Gansler in the Baltimore broadcast market. But the two candidates' overall media spending is almost the same.
- From Rep. Elijah E. Cummings playing a leading role in televised hearings on American deaths in Benghazi, to the Game Show Network visiting a Baltimore church to play matchmaker for a member of the congregation, there is going to be a distinct local flavor to summertime TV this year.
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- Baltimore theater fans are hard-pressed as of late to find a reason to leave the city with so much available right at home: superb local theater companies and community theaters and the renovated Hippodrome. It's a welcome revival of an industry the city was once known for.
- In TV terms, there were two winners and one clear loser in Tuesday's night gubernatorial debate on WBFF-TV.
- With the front-runner in the race conspicuously absent, Democratic gubernatorial candidates Douglas F. Gansler and Heather R. Mizeur disagreed – politely – during a debate Tuesday night, with Gansler saving the brunt of his criticism for missing Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.
- It was almost like old times last week watching CNN¿s wall-to-wall coverage of the Veterans Affairs scandal story.
- HIV/AIDS film 'Normal Heart' will do something to you that TV rarely does: rock you to your emotional roots.
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- Verizon Communications launched its expanded Fios DVR television service this week in the Baltimore region.
- The thing I love about PBS "Frontline" is its willingness to call out people in power in American life.
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- Gov. George Wallace won a majority vote in the Harford County over Sen. Daniel Brewster in the Democratic presidential primary held this week in 1964
- If one of the hallmarks of true greatness is consistency, NBC Sports is a truly great operation, because again, it came, it covered, it turned in another top-notch Preakness telecast.
- The members of the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company are the stars of an online documentary series, a series which its executive producer is pounding the pavement to get on television.
- An emotionally disturbed man drives a landscaping truck into the lobby of Baltimore TV station WMAR around noon and then spends the afternoon inside the building watching other TV outlets covering his five-hour standoff with police.
- We chatted with Feldman about fake nipples, Ginsberg's latent feelings of romance for his co-workers and more.
- Stakeholders in Maryland thoroughbred racing are as optimistic as they've been in decades, just a few years after the historic industry seemed on the verge of collapse.
- Richard Bankerd, a hairstylist who owned a salon and competed in an international beauty event, died of lymphoma May 2 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. A resident of the Mayfield section of Northeast Baltimore, he was 71.
- Sinclair Broadcast Group boosted revenue and profit in the first quarter, citing better-than-expected spending on political advertising, strong gains from Super Bowl and Olympics ads and lower expenses at many of the company's television stations.
- GOP governor candidates to debate again on May 31. It is the second scheduled debate among the four contenders.
- A recap nof the May 4 episode of "Mad Men," as Don and SC&P continue to not get along. That, and there's a computer in the building.
- The nation's space exploration program had already captivated 12-year-old Howard Weinstein's imagination when the original episodes of "Star Trek" began airing in 1966.
- Peter Pan prequel by Rick Elice, based on Dave Barry/Ridley Pearson book , brings its inventive theatricality to Baltimore's Hippodrome as part of national touring production.
- What a sorry state of affairs I discovered last week when I started reporting the TV aspect of the first Democratic gubernatorial debate.
- A Valentine's Day agreement among the Democrats running for governor to cooperate on setting up debates collapsed Wednesday as his rivals accused front-runner Anthony G. Brown of ducking a third televised encounter.
- French economist Thomas Piketty gets it wrong. It's a failure of democratic governments to act responsibly, not the shortcomings of capitalism that is failing America's workers and middle class.
- Hard on the news that Baltimore viewers are scheduled to be excluded from a TV debate May 7 among Maryland's Democratic candidates, WBFF (Fox45) said Wednesday that it has "been negotiating for months" with Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and Del. Heather R. Mizeur for a debate in Baltimore.
- May 7 Democratic gubernatorial debate too important to limit to the DC area
- The three Democratic contenders for governor have agreed on a plan to hold three broadcast debates – two televised and one on radio – before the June 24 primary.
- Even though next week's first gubernatorial debate is being co-hosted by two taxpayer-funded state universities, Baltimore viewers are not scheduled to be able to see it.
- After more than two months of stories about the producers of "House of Cards" threatening to leave Maryland if they didn't get $15 million from the state to offset the cost of production, the announcement Friday that they were staying was big news.
- Gubernatorial hopeful Ron George usually keeps the flashiest part of his biography quiet, but he let slip last week that had a brief and unglamorous career as daytime soap opera actor. And that's not all.
- Baltimore's skyline slowly but surely evolves as companies aim to boost visibility.
- The hit television show "House of Cards" will stay in Maryland, even though state incentives offered to keep the Netflix series here came up millions short of what the producers wanted.
