"Both sides can prepare their budgets through '18 and '20 and the winning network would have what NBC had: a long-term commitment," he said.
ABC was the winning network, but that was largely on the strength of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".
The amount of money the I.O.C. squeezes from the winning network could be reduced by the effect of NBC's loss for the Vancouver Games and the likelihood that it will lose at least that much in London.
Cast members Erik Dellums, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Clayton LeBouef, Toni Lewis and Callie Thorne also appeared on Homicide: Life on the Street, the earlier and award winning network television series also based on Simon's book; Lewis appeared on Oz as well.
I propose that the total amount received should be returned to the winning networks in proportion to the number of air minutes that each network sells.
Taking the long view of entertainment history, Katzenberg is hoping to win networks with not just a new skin for the old ceremony of watching entertainment but with a throwback to old style deal-making.
If Aereo wins, networks should embrace it as a new way to reach viewers with programming and advertising.
(It won favourite network TV drama).
CBS won the network television ratings race on Thursday, thanks to a rerun of "CSI" and "Big Brother".
The N.B.A. won the network ratings battle Sunday but golf is no mass-appeal sport and its final-round telecast was spread over six hours, beginning in the afternoon without Woods on the course.
