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...present. "Some of her arguments are interesting but they're not the law," the judge said. Mrs. McDougal and her ex-husband, James, were convicted in May on numerous felony fraud counts. She is to begin a two-year prison sentence on September 30. In an interview to be broadcast Wednesday night on ABC, Mrs. McDougal says she has considered cooperating with prosecutors. "It is tempting every time they put the carrot before my eyes," she said. "It's very tempting. It's tempting when I see my mother crying. When I see my family hurting." -- Josh Dubow
...been decided before the convention," says Lane Venardos, who oversaw CBS's coverage, "I can't imagine us going through this kind of rigmarole again." Jeffrey Zucker, his counterpart at NBC, points out that with such cable channels as CNN, C-SPAN and MSNBC providing full coverage, the broadcast networks are under less obligation to do so. "It's their party, and they can throw it the way they want to," says Zucker. "But that doesn't mean we have to cover it. And I'm not sure that in the future we will...
...fledgling direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) industry, which delivers hundreds of channels and digital pictures from space, used to be a mosquito on the back of the elephant cable-TV business. Now it's starting to draw blood. In what could be the next long distance-style price war, upstart EchoStar Communications of Englewood, Colorado, began offering its 18-in. dish for $199--a third of the usual price--to buyers who spend about $25 a month on programming. Market leader DirecTV, owned by General Motors' Hughes Electronics, is freezing rates until the year 2000, and will probably cut the price...
Comedy Central also broadcast its hit nightly round-table show, Politically Incorrect, live from San Diego. As always, the show featured panels of egregiously mismatched guests--one group last week included Oliver North, Georgia Congressman Bob Barr and Vicki Lawrence. Unlike the honchos at MTV, who had rapper Chuck D conduct an unamusing interview with Strom Thurmond during that network's convention coverage, the producers of Politically Incorrect understand that incongruous pairings are not necessarily entertaining in and of themselves. Host Bill Maher, TV's nimblest conversationalist, asked his Tuesday panel what party Jesus would join if were he alive...
...news to cover at the GOP pow-wow. Koppel is taking most of his crew along, and says he won't bother even showing up at the Democratic Convention. "This convention is more of an infomercial than a news event," Koppel said at the end of his broadcast Tuesday night. "Nothing surprising has happened. Nothing surprising is anticipated." ABC News is continuing to cover the convention, but some irritation is beginning to show at the other networks as well. NBC anchor Tom Brokaw called the events "the network news version of a Kabuki dance," while one of the CBS lead...