MEDIA NOTES

          In Atlanta, the Falcons hope to complete a new local
     radio contract by the end of the week, but the new deal
     "won't come close to approximating" the three-year, $8M
     package from then-Infinity Broadcasting's WZGC-FM in '95. 
     Infinity paid rights fees of $2M in '95 and $3M in both '96
     and '97 "and took a red-ink bath" on the deal (ATLANTA
     CONSTITUTION, 1/14)....In S.F., TV critic Tim Goodman wrote
     on Fox's John Madden: "He's losing it.  More accurately, he
     may have lost it a few years ago" (S.F. EXAMINER, 1/13).
     ...SI is working on a feature about female TV weathercasters
     for its February swimsuit edition (ELECTRONIC MEDIA, 1/12).