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...best strategy is often to go deep and hope something good happens. And that's exactly what three television networks did last week, reaching deep into their pockets to pay $17.6 billion for the right to broadcast National Football League games until 2005. Says Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., the Walt Disney Co.-owned media firm, which spent $9.2 billion on both network and cable-television rights: "Losing would have been devastating...
...Encouragingly for the President, an ABC poll found that no more women than men expressed reservations over his possible dalliances. "If he did it, so what?" Kansas City resident Sherri Ford told the AP. At the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Meredith Oakley merely shrugs. This, she says, is why Clinton's home state called him Slick Willie all along...
...ABC JANET! To infiltrate a militia, Reno takes a job as an au pair in a right-wing Montana household. Watch as Janet learns to cook, change diapers and clean an antiaircraft weapon...
...appeals to male viewers, as does Seinfeld. The Cheers spin-off followed Seinfeld when it made its debut in the fall of 1993 and actually attracted more viewers. Right now, it may not be reaching as big an audience as it could, since it goes up against ABC's Home Improvement on Tuesdays...
...network's schedule is a complicated skein, and pulling one strand may unravel the whole thing. While Frasier has not beaten Home Improvement, it has helped NBC lift its ratings on Tuesdays, a night that has long been dominated by ABC. Moving Frasier would jeopardize that progress. Another possibility would be to put 3rd Rock from the Sun into the Seinfeld time period. This season, NBC moved 3rd Rock from Sunday nights, where it became a hit, to Wednesdays, where it has struggled going head-to-head with ABC's Drew Carey Show. There's still another scenario: moving Friends...