Strange stuff struts across the stage of life every once in a while. There just isn’t time to stop and figure it all out. Like the oddly recurring story in Dallas every two to three years: “Proposed ...

From the creator of Route 66, comes a brand-new jukebox comedy bursting with retro TV joy. In Don’t Touch That Dial!, Brian drifts off to sleep and wakes up inside a television game show. Alongside ...

Quick, what’s the most important invention of all time? Most people usually say either the telephone or the computer. Well, in my humble opinion, it’s the television. OK, as former FCC Chairman Newton ...

In its latest original project, NET Television presents a history lesson about television in Nebraska. Produced and written by Bill Kelly, “Don’t Touch That Dial” will please those in the broadcasting ...

The tipster poured her story into my ear, a long, involved tale of bureaucrats behaving badly. “I’ll talk to the writers and see if we can get that in the paper,” I told her. “Oh, I don’t care about ...

You have a quirk, a rule, a particular peculiarity that everyone else indulges or tolerates. Everyone jokes about it, but they also know better than to cross you. Let me explain what prompted this ...

Contrary to the popular refrain, video never really did kill the radio star. Electric vehicles, however, might do the job. The question is whether Congress should accelerate the process. Automakers, ...

TWO WEEKS AGO, in a "Dear Readers" column, I wrote about how The Chronicle slipped on a banana peel when it tried to simplify and cut the cost of its Sunday TV Week. From a purely economic standpoint, ...

Contrary to the popular refrain, video never really did kill the radio star. Electric vehicles, however, might do the job. The question is whether Congress should accelerate the process. Automakers, ...

You have a quirk, a rule, a particular peculiarity that everyone else indulges or tolerates. Everyone jokes about it, but they also know better than to cross you. Let me explain what prompted this ...

The newborn, lacking any other frame of reference, relates all early experience to himself, and himself alone. From his point of view, the world came into being at the moment he opened his eyes; ...

Whether we like to admit it or not, we all inherited something from our fathers. My mom calls me Alan Junior because of the tendencies that he and I share. I’ve got a great dad, so I’m happy for those ...