COULD MCCORMICK'S EXIT FROM LIFETIME IMPACT SPORTS STRATEGY?

          Lifetime Television CEO Doug McCormick, who "is
     credited with helping turn Lifetime into a household name," 
     is "expected to leave at year end, when his contract expires
     after more than 16 years with the network," according to
     Leslie Cauley of the WALL STREET JOURNAL.  Disney and Hearst
     Corp., which jointly own Lifetime, "aren't expected to
     renew" his contract, and Cauley noted that while a successor
     "hasn't been named ... the betting is it will be a woman." 
     McCormick, who began at Lifetime in '82 and was CEO for the
     last five years, "declined comment" on the matter (WALL
     STREET JOURNAL, 11/27).  DAILY VARIETY's Rich Katz lists
     Exec VP Jane Tollinger and Senior VP/Programming &
     Production Dawn Tarnofsky as "leading candidates" at the
     network to replace McCormick (DAILY VARIETY, 11/30).