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141 r. Si ,15 "Amos 'N' Andy" was last telecast on 1 To kill or not to kiR a newsroom rax is the question on 'NewsRadio'; NSC 8:23 pTt. tm INNER TUBE f'V' i 4k- tmi jff ANOTHER BOUNCE FROM ESPN: A NEW SPORTS-NEWS CHANNEL Cable's ESPN is expanding again. Top brass at the network, which has already spawned ESPN2, said yesterday that come Nov. 1 they'll launch ESPNEWS, a 24-hour sports news service.

Word of the channel comes less than four months after CNN and Sports Illustrated unveiled plans for a similar service called CNNSI. "We've been planning ESPNEWS for three years," said Steve Bomstein, presi- tiated and distinct announc-dent and CEO of ESPN. "This ing and production team" therapist Laura Schtosslngor. The station will continue to use substitute hosts in the 4-7 p.m. block until a permanent replacement is named.

Comic Joan Rivers will host the 4-7 p.m. slot all next week. Grant, of course, is now hosting his own show weekday afternoons on WOR radio (710 AM). RJt. Laugh lines Former original "Saturday Night Live" writers Marilyn Suzanne Miller and Alan Zwei- bel will offer up some tips for wannabe scriptwriters tonight at 6 at the Museum of Television Radio.

The session, "Writing For the Many Forms of TV Comedy," is the latest in a series of conversations between writers being staged at the museum. Tickets are $10. For information: (212) 621-6600. R.H. Togetherness Daytime talk shows may be under assault, but no one can accuse "Rolonda" of spurning family values.

Well, sort of. The show's new co-executive producers: husband-and-wife duo David Scott and Cyndi Wolf man Scott Most recently, David Scott worked as a producer with "Donahue," Cyndi Wolfman worked as senior producer of "Gordon Elliott" She's also a production vet of "PrimeTime Live" and "2020." The couple met while working on Christy SfewlnsM Dot's As predicted here yesterday, CBS announced late in the day that the debuts of the revamped "This Morning" and the new edition of the "CBS Morning News" will be pushed back to Monday, Aug. 12. Tonight's "Nightline" (ABC, 11:35 p.m.) goes behind the scenes with Presidential candidate Bob Dole on his last day in the Senate. Tomorrow night at 10, Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange takes center stage on Bravo's "Inside the Actor's Studio." Oh Thursday, ABC's "General Hospital" celebrates the broadcast of its 8,500 episode.

"GH," which debuted April 1, 1963, is ABC's longest-running soap as well as TVs longest-running Hollywood-produced soap WPIXCh. ll's coverage of Sunday's Puerto Rican Day parade pulled in the highest ratings ever for. the station's annual coverage of the event Tomorrow night's "Jamie deRoy friends," airing at 8:30 on Manhattan Cable's Ch. 17, features cabaret standouts Allx Korey and Tom Andersen. They're among the stars playing June 17 and 21 at The Triad in "Cabaret on the Record," an AIDS benefit gala being held in memory of the late Nancy LaMott.

C.S. is not a reaction to what any- body else is doing." CNNSI is set to debut in December. Reacting to the ESPN announcement, CNN senior vice president Jim Walton said in a statement, "Sports Illustrated and CNN have not only faced competi-' tion in the past, but we have both thrived on it." There is also an existing sports-news channel known as NewSport, which reaches about 9 million homes. While exact programing details are still being worked out for the new channel, ESPN executives said it would be a mix of breaking news, highlights, analysis, interviews, live press conferences and other sports information programing. According to John Walsh, ESPN's executive editor, the channel will have "a differen- BRAVO: Jessica Lange announced shortly.

A panel of approximately 500 viewers, record label executives, music journalists and video producers will select the nominees. R.H. Radio fine-tuning WABC radio (770 AM) hasn't yet found a full-time replacement for Bob Grant, who was fired on April 17, but yesterday it moved to partially fill the important afternoon drive-time hours he vacated. Starting Monday, WABC will fill the 3 to 4 p.m. hour with an hour from the Los Angeles-based family-matters advice program hosted by from that of ESPN.

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