Better known for his two tumultuous terms as governor on Rhode Island in the early 1990s, Bruce Sundlun ran Outlet Communcations, a station group whose flagship was WJAR Providence and which was bought by NBC in 1996. Among Sundlun’s survivors is daughter Kara Sundlun, now an anchor at Meredith’s WFSB Hartford, Conn.
Exclusives
News Corp. is developing a plan to protect its American media outlets from the fallout as the FBI launches a preliminary investigation of whether laws were broken on this side of the Atlantic. The company expects to hire another outside public relations firm to help spearhead that effort and field inquiries involving Fox News, local Fox stations, and the New York Post.
BERLIN (AP) — Leo Kirch, a German media mogul whose television-based empire unraveled in a spectacular bankruptcy nearly a decade ago, died Thursday. He was 84. Kirch, a towering business […]
Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of two of the best-remembered TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, died today in Los Angeles. He was 94.
Harold “Hal” Golden, a television industry leader and former President of ABC Films, died June 30 at his home in Capistrano Beach, Calif. He was 86. Born Harold Goldstein in […]
LONDON — Anna Massey, an actress whose roles ranged from lonely spinsters to Margaret Thatcher, died on Sunday. She was 73. The cause was cancer, said her agent, Pippa Markham. […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elaine Stewart, a leading lady in a series of films in the 1950s, including “Brigadoon,” and star of the 1970s game shows “Gambit” and “High Rollers,” […]
The actor won four Emmys for his portrayal of the rumpled TV detective, as well as Oscar nominations for his first two films, died Thursday in Beverly Hills.
NEW YORK (AP) — Leonard Stern, a prolific writer-producer-director whose credits include “The Honeymooners,” “Get Smart,” and “McMillan and Wife,” died Tuesday. He was 87. Stern died of heart failure […]
As U.S. Marshal Dillon in the 1955-75 CBS Western series, Arness created an indelible portrait of a quiet, heroic man with an unbending dedication to justice and the town he protected.
LOS ANGELES – Actor Jeff Conaway, who starred in TV’s “Taxi” and the movie musical “Grease,” has died. Spokeswoman Kathryn Boole says the 60-year-old actor died Friday morning at the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Haines, co-anchor of CNBC’s morning “Squawk on the Street” show, died unexpectedly on Tuesday evening, the network said. He was 65. The network said he […]
Veteran broadcast financial executive Collette Leonard, 63, died May 24 from inoperable cancer. At the time of her death, Leonard was the controller and human resource manager for WGAL Lancaster, […]
The CBS News producer and reporter who was one of the original 60 Minutes producers and who worked on Edward R. Murrow’s Joe McCarthy expose in 1954 was 90.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Norma Zimmer, the “Champagne Lady” of TV’s “The Lawrence Welk Show” and a studio singer who worked with Frank Sinatra and other pop stars, has died. […]
Cheryl Reinhardt said her father, a former president of CNN, suffered from ischemic strokes and died Tuesday at his home in Marietta, Ga.
