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LONDON (AP) — Big-voiced British singer Cilla Black, a product of Beatles-era Liverpool who became a national treasure over a 50-year music and television career, has died. She was 72. […]

Larry H. Israel, a veteran media executive who served as president of The Washington Post Co. from 1973 to 1977, and led an expansion of the company’s radio and television holdings, died July 29 at a hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 95.

Peg Lynch, who wrote and starred in Ethel and Albert, one of television’s earliest situation comedies, died on Friday. She was 98. Lynch, who wrote nearly 11,000 scripts for radio and television without the benefit of a writer’s room committee (or even a co-writer), was a pioneering woman in broadcast entertainment.

CBS Corp.’s first chief compliance officer and the longtime chief legal officer for the CBS Television Stations group died July 19. He was 66. Services will be Saturday, July 25, in East Hampton, N.Y.

Sanders was the first woman to anchor a primetime network newscast, for ABC, in 1964, when she filled-in for Ron Cochran, who had lost his voice that night. She was also the first network TV female journalist to report from Vietnam, in 1966, and the first female vice president of a news division, ABC, in 1976.

Mark Karlen, senior design representative of Broadcast Design International, died June 29 of brain cancer. He was 54. Karlen had more than 20 years’ experience in the broadcast industry. He […]

Glenn R. Jones borrowed $400 against his Volkswagen in 1967 and turned it into a cable television empire that influences the way we learn today. In a career that spanned five decades, Jones built Jones Intercable into one of the 10 largest cable television operators in the U.S. He later founded what would become the first online university to receive accreditation, Jones International University.

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Amanda Peterson, best known for her role in the 1987 romantic comedy “Can’t Buy Me Love,” has died. She was 43. Sgt. Mike Moran with the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Diana Douglas, the first wife of Kirk Douglas and mother of Michael Douglas, died Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 92. Douglas died of cancer at […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jack Carter, whose brash, caustic comedy made him a star in early television and helped him sustain a career of more than a half-century in TV, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Macnee, star of the 1960s TV series “The Avengers,” has died. He was 93. His son Rupert said in a statement that Patrick Macnee died […]

Danny Villanueva, who co-founded Univision and helped turned it into a powerhouse in Spanish-language TV, has died. He was 77. His alma mater Mew Mexico State University said the exec died of complications from a stroke last week.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dick Van Patten, the genial, round-faced comic actor who appeared on Broadway as a child, starred on TV in its infancy and then, in middle age, […]

Roberts jumped into the fledgling cable TV industry in 1963 by spending $500,000 to buy American Cable Systems, a company in Tupelo, Miss. He then acquired other cable systems, changed the name of the company to Comcast and ran the company until he was in his 80s.