CHERNIN OUT A PIECE OF HISTORY ALONG WITH MURDOCH?

          NEWSWEEK's Johnnie Roberts profiles News Corp. Chair
     RUPERT MURDOCH and Fox Group CEO PETER CHERNIN, and writes
     that it was Chernin who "approved" News Corp.-owned TM3 -- a
     women's cable channel in Germany -- to "pay more than" $400M
     "to land soccer's popular European Champions League,
     stunning the soccer-crazed nation."  Chernin said the deal
     "was akin to the Lifetime Channel buying the rights to the
     NFL."  Roberts, on the deal: "It was a strategy inspired by
     Fox's ... purchase of NFL viewing rights" (NEWSWEEK, 7/12).