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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY GIVES NFL MIDSEASON REVIEWS

          Halfway through the NFL season, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's
     Mike Flaherty grades the performance of the NFL TV partners'
     broadcast teams.  Flaherty calls CBS's Jim Nantz a "vanilla
     anchor" in giving the "NFL Today" a B-, and gives the game
     production and top play-by-play team Greg Gumbel and Phil
     Simms a "middle-of-the-road" rating of B.  Fox earns a C for
     "Fox NFL Sunday" as Flaherty calls Terry Bradshaw an
     "insufferable boor," but it earns an A- for game coverage,
     led by Pat Summerall and John Madden, TV's "best behind-the-
     mike duo."  ABC earns a D for "Monday Night Blast," but a B+
     for game coverage as play-by-play man Al Michaels "may be
     the best in the biz."  ESPN's in-studio team earns an A-,
     while its game coverage earns a C+, and Flaherty says Mike
     Patrick, Joe Theismann and Paul Maguire "get the job done
     with shtick-free unobtrusiveness" (EW, 10/23 issue). 
          GOOD MOVE FOR CBS? In Baltimore, Milton Kent looks at
     CBS's return to the NFL, noting that CBS "has come back
     quite well with a pretty decent plan of attack for covering
     games that blends four decades of tradition with a
     newfangled conference, the AFC, and a '90s sensibility." 
     Once "you clear the top level," CBS's "announcing depth is
     superior" to Fox and the "NFL Today" has "evolved nicely
     into a straightforward hour of information, though it could
     still use a bit of personality" (Baltimore SUN, 10/27).
          NEWS YOU CAN USE? In Boston, Howard Manly reviews the
     informational aspects of the NFL's pre-game shows.  CBS's
     Mike Lombardi reported three weeks ago that NFL owners
     "would discuss realignment" at today's owners' meetings, and
     gave his own plan for realignment, but "Fox NFL Sunday" host
     James Brown reported last week that "all owners will decide"
     today is whether to put Cleveland into the AFC Central. 
     Lombardi: "I'm right and Brown is wrong.  I only said that a
     realignment was on the docket and gave my own plan.  I never
     said it was going to pass.  I just said it was going to be
     talked about.  I was factual."  Brown could not be reached
     for comment (BOSTON GLOBE, 10/27).  Lombardi reported on
     Sunday that owners will "do nothing" about realignment and
     "put Cleveland in the AFC Central" (CBS, 10/25). 

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