1.   Diller reportedly is trying to build a national network of television stations that would offer sports and entertainment programming.

2.   ABC also said that Spike Lee would develop a new comedy for the network, in association with Brandon Tartikoff, a former head of entertainment programming for NBC.

3.   After more than four days of continuous coverage, ABC, NBC and CBS began to pull back from the story over the weekend, returning to entertainment programming.

4.   All that is generally the case for entertainment programming, which is prerecorded.

5.   Allen talked enthusiastically about the possibilities in marrying such entertainment programming with increasingly sophisticated computer capability.

6.   But a huge gap remains with entertainment programming.

7.   But ABC and NBC certainly would not be happy to air low-rent baseball with replacement players from July on rather than higher-rated entertainment programming.

8.   But because that is the flagship station of the Fox network there are many nights when Fox cannot pre-empt entertainment programming for a game.

9.   Clendenin long has said his company must invest in entertainment programming.

10.   Clifford said entertainment programming, while still a small part of the Northwest Mobile picture, is also growing.