TURNER LAYS OFF MURDOCH; SAYS HE HAS NO INTEREST IN NFL

          Time Warner Vice Chair TED TURNER was a guest on "Larry
     King Live" last night and talked about his relationship with
     News Corp. Chair RUPERT MURDOCH: "I don't think he likes me
     and the feeling is shared, but we're not insulting each
     other on a daily basis anymore."  Turner, asked if he has an
     interest in owning an NFL team: "Not particularly.  The main
     reason that I got into the sports business was because of
     the television.  Forever, the television of the NFL went
     with the networks.  They didn't have local television and I
     was a local broadcaster.  So the NFL didn't bring us [TBS]
     the kind of synergy that the other three sports did." 
     Turner, on the profitability of WCW: "When I say it's not
     profitable, it's not profitable as a stand-alone entity.  I
     think the ratings and the programming it gives us makes it
     overall a good thing for us to be in" (CNN, 12/13).