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...Washington grand jury looking at the same evidence for the past 18 months. Sources tell TIME that Hubbell is more likely to face tax-evasion charges in connection with the payments he received than an indictment for obstruction of justice. McLarty may have put together the network for Hubbell's "base" pay. But to prove obstruction, prosecutors have to establish illegal intent, such as buying silence. There's only one place to get such testimony, and so far all Hubbell's benefactors, including McLarty, say they were motivated only by a desire to help a friend in distress. Last week...
Admit it, you never watch MTV. You've got the Nashville Network written all over...
...network news chiefs insist nothing so drastic is being contemplated just yet. Though pummeled by competition from cable, local news and the Internet, the evening-news programs still have an important function. They are the flagship broadcasts for the network news divisions, they showcase well-paid and highly respected news stars, and they still make money. Though their ratings have dropped steadily, the decline has been less steep than the slippage in network viewership overall. In the latest Nielsen ratings, ABC's World News Tonight (ranking second behind NBC's Nightly News) was watched by 7.5% of the nation...
Hollywood is busy right now, as the networks scramble to put together their fall schedules and wrestle with such weighty problems as which show will get Seinfeld's time slot and how quickly they can clone Ally McBeal. This spring, however, the most intriguing moves are being contemplated at the network news divisions. The result could be a big step on the road to a long dreamed of, but never realized, goal: a network newscast in the lucrative, heavily viewed hours of prime time...
...fizzled in the ratings), programmers are toying with an alluring but risky idea: expanding the venerated 60 Minutes to a second night. The chief stumbling block is the people behind 60 Minutes, who fear diluting the show. "We think it's a terrible idea," says executive producer Don Hewitt. "[Network programmers] hope to persuade us. But they haven...