The Mesa Unified School District’s Elementary and Junior High School Festival Choir will perform at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Red Mountain High School auditorium, 7301 E. Brown Road. The event will be televised live by the district’s Educational Television Department at www.edtv99.org.

NEW YORK - Don Imus is hanging his familiar cowboy hat in a new television home: RFD-TV.

LOS ANGELES - The writing teams for the new ABC medical show "Grey's Anatomy" and the NBC comedies "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office" scored double nominations Tuesday from the Writers Guild of America.

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The Ahwatukee Bowl is going national. ESPNU is slated to broadcast of the annual showdown between Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe's football teams. DV principal Anna Battle confirmed Friday that both schools have signed contracts to televise the game.

There may not be any more presidential debates between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, partly because of the bad aroma that ABC’s interrogation prior to Pennsylvania’s primary left behind in many noses.

The Diamondbacks will be a bit easier to find on the television next season. The organization announced Friday that it has granted exclusive television rights to FSN Arizona, ending its 10-year relationship with KTVK (Ch. 3).

LOS ANGELES - The judge in the murder case against Phil Spector said Wednesday he's leaning toward allowing the trial to be televised and will make a decision after hearing from lawyers later this month.

HARTFORD, Conn. - Louis Rukeyser, a best-selling author, columnist, lecturer and television host who delivered pun-filled, commonsense commentary on complicated business and economic news, died Tuesday. He was 73.

May 25, 2005

Dramatic images of the war in Iraq have left people across the country struggling to decide when to watch TV and when to turn it off.

In the final season of his NBA career, Charles Barkley laid out his plans for his post-playing days: "I want to make a lot of money and not work too hard."

NEW YORK — The Fiesta Bowl between teams from non-BCS conferences kept pace in television ratings.

Another local TV network is joining the high school football fray this fall, as Fox Sports Net Arizona will televise eight games on Thursday and Friday nights this season.

It will soon be lights, camera, action at Queen Creek Town Hall. The Town Council last week approved a contract with Phoenix-based Orange Screen Productions to film and do postproduction work on 24 council meetings.

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