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- Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. is one of several large broadcasters that could be forced to sell television stations or other assets or rethink future acquisition plans under new media ownership rules the Federal Communications Commission is set to consider later this month.
- With Daniel Bryan absent from the WWE Raw this week to sell the injury he received last week from Triple H, a few matches were added to a WrestleMania card that needed more.
- Co-creator of Comedy Central series discusses college, life after school and more
- The adrenaline ante has been so upped on episodic dramas as to somewhat devalue the "shocker" label. So credit the producers of "The Good Wife" with delivering a genuine jolt in Sunday's episode, precisely because the CBS series doesn't rely on over-the-top "OMG" moments in the way, say, something like "Scandal" does.
- Two watermen were fined nearly $1,500 for oyster poaching on the Eastern Shore, the first conviction using a network of radar and cameras the state launched in 2010 to detect illegal seafood harvesting.
- A D.C. mayoral candidate would like the Netflix series to film less in Maryland, more in Washington
- A look at one slice of original and unique content on Al Jazeera America
- Dr. Majid Fotuhi, a Harvard- and Johns Hopkins-trained neurologist, author of three books on the human brain and owner of a brain training center that opened last fall in Columbia, last week launched a series of six lectures on boosting your brain with an hour-long talk at the East Columbia 50+ Center.
- I stopped paying much attention to Lifetime after the cable channel branded itself ¿Television for Women¿ in the 1990s and started offering exploitative made-for-TV movies like the 1997 production of ¿My Stepson, My Lover¿ with Rachel Ward.
- Michael Phelps will appear on the USA Network drama "Suits" playing himself.
- In the first live wrestling show on the WWE Network, a fantastic show from NXT was marred by technical issues.
- Maryland grad Giuliana Rancic dishes on award-winning fashion moments, the Mani Cam and how she does it all in heels.
- Former Ravens and New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott has been promoted to studio analyst for CBS' pregame show "The NFL Today."
- How many attacks on the First Amendment is President Obama going to be allowed before he's universally denounced as a worse enemy of the press than Richard Nixon?
- A leading Democratic lawmaker says the O'Malley administration isn't doing enough to keep the popular Netflix drama "House of Cards" in Maryland.
- Show addresses all that is wrong with U.S. politics
- Since screening the Season 2 premiere of "House of Cards" almost two weeks ago, I have been dying to talk about a showstopper of a moment in it.
- Sid Caesar deserves better than what he's been getting online today. He deserves some cultural context and honor for the fearless and pioneering figure he was.
- I have heard the requests for more fields and more space for athletics many times during my time here in Howard County. To that end, the county has obliged time and time again. Sometimes they've provided even more space than I thought necessary.
- In 'House of Cards,' Kevin Spacey, Beau Willimon bring power of live theater to screen like no series in TV history.
- Former WWE diva and TNA knockout Mickie James will be appearing at the Maryland Championship Wrestling show in Joppa on Saturday night.
- Documentaries were supposed to be a dying genre -- and living proof that we were becoming dumber as a nation.
- WBAL, WJZ, CNN strongest in coverage at Columbia mall shooting
- Michael Phelps will appear on an episode of the USA Network drama "Suits" that will air March 6.
- Wednesday night, the channel introduces another new series starring a Baltimore area college grad, and it looks like Comedy Central has another winner.
- New series aims to be bar equivalent of 'Wife Swap'
- "Looking" doesn't present men dealing with gay issues; it depicts gay men dealing with larger, more universal questions. That sounds like a subtle tonal shift, but it puts "Looking" in the remarkable position of feeling transgressive precisely because it's not.
- However, those pale in comparison to the department's most recent project, the takeover of Laurel's Public Access channel, which was formerly known as Laurel Cable. The network, which has been run by non-profit Laurel Cable Network Foundation since the 1980's, was completely handed over to the city on Jan. 1.
- The film and television industry is abandoning California for states and countries that offer better incentives
- Netflix production had led TV series with four nominations coming into evening
- A couple of hard-edged veteran cops are driving down a desolate Louisiana road after investigating a grisly crime scene in HBO¿s new Sunday-night drama, "True Detective."
- Comedy Central's "Drunk History," which features inebriated storytellers recounting historical events, filmed at Mother's Federal Hill Grille on Jan. 9, 2014. The show's creator/host, Derek Waters, is a Lutherville native.
- The Orioles season opener March 31 against the defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox will be broadcast on ESPN2 at part of the network's Opening Day coverage. The game is scheduled for a 3 p.m. start at Camden Yards.
- Last month, I described 2013 as the year I lost faith in one of the few bastions of TV journalism in which I still believed: "60 Minutes."
- They might be a little snooty, but it would be hard to find a family more welcome in these parts than the Crawleys of "Downton Abbey" at least in Owings Mills, home of Maryland Public Television.
- One of the shortest and most meaningless suspensions in TV history ended Friday with A&E announcing that it was back in business with "Duck Dynasty" and its 67-year-old, bearded patriarch Phil Robertson.
- The most important TV moment of 2013 didn't even happen on television.
- Some Duck Dynasty fans have taken to Facebook to create Chick-Phil-A Day to support the controversial star Phil Robertson. The page already has more 20,000 likes and has been featured on the conservative newsite the Blaze? According to the Facebook page, Chick-Phil-A Day is set for January 21.
- Sun's critic is wrong to berate PBS for news practices common on network television
- Under Armour may not want to talk about "Duck Dynasty," but fans of the now controversial reality show took to the Baltimore-based company's social media accounts this weekend to praise Under Armour for sticking by the embattled franchise.
- Records released by the city last week show that problems with Baltimore's speed and red-light camera vendor persisted over a three-month testing period that continued into late October.