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...might be having on young viewers, the networks have vowed to scrub their houses even cleaner. The label itself may turn out to be sparingly used. Network officials say few, if any, of their regular series will be so branded; only Steven Bochco's racy new cop show for ABC, NYPD Blue, has been singled out as likely to get a weekly warning. In general, the label will be applied on a case-by- case basis to certain TV movies and individual episodes of regular series...
...those would ever have gotten made." The network standards-and-practices departments are already increasing their vigilance. "We're used to dealing with Standards & Practices on a daily basis in terms of language and violence," says Langley of Cop Files. "But they've become even more cautious recently." ABC Entertainment chief Ted Harbert, speaking to affiliates in June, promised that the network would "work to keep the violence to the absolute minimum" this fall. George Vradenburg 3d, executive vice president of Fox Inc., vows "increased attention not only to the depiction of violence but also to whether there are appropriate...
...most talked-about prospect for the QVC-HSN merger is the creation of a fifth network on a par with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. A portion of the transaction gives QVC -- which is partly owned by cable-TV visionary John Malone of Tele-Communications Inc. -- the option to buy a controlling interest in HSN's TV spin-off, Silver King Communications, which owns 12 UHF stations, enough to form the core of a network...
...ABC Cuts a Cable Deal...
Breaking ranks with the other networks, ABC will allow Continental Cablevision, the nation's third largest cable operator, to carry ABC-owned broadcast stations without paying it a fee; in return, the cable company has agreed to carry and pay for a new cable channel, ESPN2, a spin-off of ESPN, which ABC's parent company owns...