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Daly, who has a nonexclusive contract with MTV, came to NBC after a development deal with CBS fell apart when he failed to come up with a show that the network liked. He also turned down a prime-time variety show for ABC, feeling it was too similar to TRL. Believing that the standard monologue-sketch-interview format for late-night shows has grown stale, he says he accepted the three-year contract with the hope that, over time, he can come up with something different. "I look at it as a testing ground for the future of late night...
...introduction to our Q+A with Bill Maher, the host of ABC's Politically Incorrect [NOTEBOOK, Dec. 24], we mistakenly wrote that he drew fire "for saying the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan was cowardly." Maher's remarks were made prior to any bombing campaign against Afghanistan. He was referring in a general way to military strikes that were carried out from a distance...
DIED. DICK SCHAAP, 67, witty, award-winning sports journalist and host of TV and radio shows, including ESPN's The Sports Reporters; after hip-replacement surgery; in New York City. In his five-decade career, Schaap befriended countless celebrities, covered sports and sometimes culture for Newsweek, nbc, abc and espn, and won six Emmys. Among his 33 books was the 1968 best seller Instant Replay, written with Green Bay Packer Jerry Kramer...
...admitted having a "close relationship," was last seen at a Washington health club on April 30. Condit is not a suspect in her disappearance, say Washington police. His crime, Condit claims, was not participating in the feeding frenzy, at least until a disingenuous interview with Connie Chung on ABC last summer. "From the outset I was talking to law enforcement, being helpful, telling them everything I knew, and so the media want to make it that just because I didn't go on TV or in the newspapers that I didn't talk. Well, I told the people who were...
...obscure art of Arabic translating got a workout last week as two news organizations released new versions of the Osama bin Laden tape. The State Department translation was a collaboration among several experts that left a lot of holes as "unintelligible." But experts hired by ABC and CNN have since reviewed the text. Among the revelations from the new passages: bin Laden names nine of the hijackers; he told followers to listen to the radio for a news bulletin hours before the attacks; and the sheik being honored at the dinner that night was sneaked into Afghanistan by a member...