MEDIA NOTES

     More ratings: ABC's college football is up 10% to 6.5, NBC's
Notre Dame games are up 76% to 6.0, NBC's "NFL Live" is up 6% to
3.7, and Fox's pregame show is at 4.4, down 4% from CBS' "NFL
Today" last year (Rudy Martzke, USA TODAY, 10/14)....CBS Inc.'s
shares continued to slide yesterday, following the company's
report of a 51% drop in third-quarter earnings on Wednesday
(Baltimore SUN, 10/14). ....Connecticut Public Television is
working on a package of UConn's women's basketaball games for
this season.  The package would include six regular season games
plus the Big East and NCAA tournaments.  CPTV needs to come up
with a corporate sponsor to help underwrite production cost (Jim
Shea, HARTFORD COURANT, 10/14).