MEDIA NOTES

          News Corp. Chair Rupert Murdoch is lobbying Congress
     about allowing his planned satellite-TV system, ASkyB, to
     offer network programming and local stations.  Some
     satellite operators, like Echo Star, are "supportive," but
     DirecTV "isn't on board," because "it doesn't have the
     satellite capacity to carry much local programming and could
     be at a competitive disadvantage" (BUSINESS WEEK, 2/10
     issue)....NEWSDAY's Steve Zipay notes if Bill Parcells
     doesn't return to coaching next season, "it isn't a lock
     that he'd return to television."  Zipay: "Some broadcast
     executives expressed interest yesterday, but they aren't
     exactly knocking down the door to rent him for a year"
     (NEWSDAY, 2/1).  In Boston, Howard Manley notes Parcells has
     a "credibility problem" as he "once misled the media" on air
     about his contact with the Bucs in '91 (BOSTON GLOBE, 1/31).