Jon Anderson

At times during the last 3 1/2 years, Ted Turner tried without luck to sell his broadcasting company to CBS Inc. On Thursday, Turner was in a buying mood. Turner...

Pulling coherent themes out of the world`s most populated country is not easy, as NBC correspondent Lloyd Dobyns found while preparing five special reports for this week`s NBC ''Nightly News.''...

In his dressing room at Orchestra Hall, Victor Aitay talks about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat in Hungary who saved his life 40 years ago with a bogus letter of...

David Copperfield, a pleasant young man, does magic on a scale that ranges from the small and intimate to . . . well, last year he made the Statue of...

Nurtured by a mild climate and grasses that spring from soil rich in limestone, Ireland`s horses are tough and spirited wonders of nature. That concept gleams through ''The Ballad of...

Personally, I`m a sucker for romance,'' says Cheryl Ladd of her work in ''Romance on the Orient Express,'' on NBC-Ch. 5 at 8 p.m. Monday. But there`s more than that,...

Georg Solti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of five famous overtures by Rossini on ''Great Performances'' on WTTW-Ch. 11 at 9 p.m. Friday. First presented in June,...

Television journalist Jim Lehrer, who hosts ''My Heart, Your Heart'' at 9 p.m. on WTTW-Ch. 11, should know what he`s talking about. The co-anchor of the Emmy-winning ''MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour'' suffered...

Dame Agatha Christie introduces the occult in ''Mystery of the Blue Jar'' at 9 p.m. on WTTW-Ch. 11. A young man who lives in a cottage beside a golf course...

FOR TEMPESTT Bledsoe, 11, the daughter of two Chicago public school teachers, fame is no big thing. She likes playing Cliff Huxtable`s (Bill Cosby) bright and outgoing daughter, Vanessa, on...