ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | August 4, 2011
The report by WJZ-TV's Mike Hellgren is a serious one about a suspect in a road rage incident along I-83. The attack took place about 10 p.m. Friday night near the Maryland-Pennsylvania state line. It should be noted that the station has handled the story with the gravity and concern the subject matter and the victim's pain deserves. But what has some of the Internet buzzing is the resemblance between the suspect in a police sketch that accompanies the story and Hellgren, who is reporting the crime.
SPORTS
By David Zurawik and The Baltimore Sun | June 26, 2011
Nick Charles, a pioneering figure in cable TV sports at CNN and one-time Baltimore broadcaster at WJZ-TV, died Saturday at his home in New Mexico, according to the cable news network. He was 64 and had been battling bladder cancer since 2009. Mr. Charles, who worked as a sports anchor at WJZ-TV from 1972 to 1976, died “peacefully, looking out at the spectacular land that drew him to Santa Fe, New Mexico,” his wife, Cory, a producer for CNN International, told the network.
NEWS
By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | June 25, 2011
Nick Charles, a pioneering figure in cable TV sports at CNN and one-time Baltimore broadcaster at WJZ-TV, died Saturday at his home in New Mexico, according to the cable news network. He was 64 and had been battling bladder cancer since 2009. Mr. Charles, who worked as a sports anchor at WJZ-TV from 1972 to 1976, died "peacefully, looking out at the spectacular land that drew him to Santa Fe, New Mexico," his wife, Cory, a producer for CNN International, told the network. "As a journalist and sports personality, Nick Charles helped put CNN on the map in its early days," Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide, said in a statement Saturday.
ENTERTAINMENT
By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun | June 25, 2011
Nick Charles, a pioneering figure in cable TV sports at CNN and one-time Baltimore broadcaster at WJZ-TV, died Saturday at his home in New Mexico, according to the cable news network. He was 64 and had been battling bladder cancer since 2009. Mr. Charles, who worked as a sports anchor at WJZ-TV from 1972 to 1976, died "peacefully, looking out at the spectacular land that drew him to Santa Fe, New Mexico," his wife, Cory, a producer for CNN International, told the network. "As a journalist and sports personality, Nick Charles helped put CNN on the map in its early days," Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide, said in a statement Saturday.
MOBILE
By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun | May 18, 2011
May 18, 2011 Oprah Winfrey is one great storyteller. So let her set the stage for the story of her years in Baltimore - seven and a half years starting in 1976 that would profoundly shape not only the life of the young anchorwoman, but also give birth to the media phenomenon known as Oprah. "I came to Baltimore when I was 22 years old. Drove my red Cutlass up from Nashville, Tenn., arrived and was as close to 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as I could be," Winfrey says in that rich, inviting voice that millions have tuned in to for decades.
SPORTS
By Kevin Cowherd | April 16, 2011
Nick Charles is on the phone from his home in Santa Fe, N.M., a nurse and the hospice people working quietly in the background. "Mike Tyson came out to visit me last week," he says now. "He cried with me. Kept saying: 'I don't want to lose you!' We have a 25-year friendship that dates back to when he didn't trust anyone. The guy wouldn't let me go for 15 minutes. " Now it's Charles who doesn't want to let go of life, not just yet, not at age 64 with another birthday right around the corner.
SPORTS
April 8, 2011
April 1 at Rays, 7:10 p.m., MASN HD 2 at Rays, 7:10 p.m., MASN HD 3 at Rays, 1:40 p.m., MASN 2 HD 4 vs. Tigers, 3:05 p.m., MASN HD 6 vs. Tigers, 7:05 p.m., MASN 2 HD 7 vs. Tigers, 7:05 p.m., MASN 2 HD 8 vs. Rangers, 7:05 p.m., MASN 2 HD 9 vs. Rangers, 7:05 p.m., MASN 2 HD 10 vs. Rangers, 1:35 p.m., MASN 2 HD 12 at Yankees, 7:05 p.m., MASN HD 13 at Yankees, 7:05 p.m., MASN HD 14 at Yankees, 7:05 p.m., MASN HD 15 at Indians, 7:05 p.m., MASN 2 HD 16 at Indians, 1:05 p.m., MASN 2 HD, WJZ 17 at Indians, 1:05 p.m., MASN 2 HD, WJZ 18 vs.
NEWS
By Peter Hermann, The Baltimore Sun | January 3, 2011
Former television news personality Dennis Edwards is being held in the Baltimore city jail after police arrested him a second time in four days in connection with a domestic violence case involving his wife, according to court documents. A District Court judge on Monday set bail at $500,000 and scheduled a hearing for Feb. 2. The 54-year-old is charged with violating a protective order, telephone misuse, harassment and malicious destruction of property. Police first arrested Edwards on Wednesday, Dec. 29, and charged him with assaulting his wife in their home on South Road.