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CAPITAL NEWS (ABC, debuting April 9, 9 p.m. EDT). Hill Street Blues alum David Milch co-created this overly earnest ensemble drama about reporters for a Washington newspaper. Lloyd Bridges presides weekly as the crusty editor...
EQUAL JUSTICE (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. EST). A band of young lawyers struggle to retain their ideals, and win a few cases, in a big-city D.A.'s office. ABC's new courtroom series matches up well against NBC's L.A. Law: more grit and less sanctimony...
...technology, Gershwin's piano rolls have been rescued from oblivion. Under the supervision of Gershwin scholar Artis Wodehouse, an optical scanner was used to convert the holes that activate the keys into computer files that can be understood by today's music synthesizers. Last week's performance on ABC's Good Morning America was played by a Yamaha Disklavier, a $20,000 grand piano that comes with a computer disk drive. A book of piano scores, transcribed by computer, is scheduled to be released later this year...
...latest round of escalating league TV deals started in December 1988, when CBS won the rights to four years of major-league baseball for an unprecedented $1.08 billion. That was roughly the same amount that NBC and ABC had paid for the previous six years -- and CBS's package includes only 16 regular-season games, in addition to the All-Star Game, play-offs and World Series. (ESPN, which signed its own $400 million deal, will offer another 161 regular-season contests...
...college sports, TV revenue poses other, more troubling problems. The 64 members of the College Football Association, for example, negotiated a lucrative five-year TV pact with ABC for $210 million in January. Three weeks later, Notre Dame bolted from the group and signed its own TV deal with NBC for more than $30 million. The move brought cries of foul from other colleges. The increased money and TV exposure, they complained, will give Notre Dame even more of an advantage in national recruiting and will encourage other strong teams to pursue a go-it-alone policy, to the detriment...