1. Raycom offers $1.9 billion to buy out LIN Media; higher than the $1.7 billion offered by Hicks Muse Tate & Furst in August (HMTF would end up acquiring LIN by March 1998)
2. No access spots available after the last major-market free spots were snapped up by "Access Hollywood"
3. Vice-President Gore calls on Hollywood to remember its moral responsibilities (this would not be the first time the entertainment industry was called out by the Gores; as Tipper a decade prior was one of the leaders of the efforts that led to the Parental Advisory stickers during the 1980s)
4. CBS gives vote of confidence to CBS News president Andrew Heyward
5. Washington-area stations running higher-paying advertisers at the behest of Virginia state office candidates; particularly in the gubernatorial race to succeed term-limited Republican George Allen (Democratic Lieutenant Governor Don Beyer and Republican former Attorney General and eventual winner Jim Gilmore)
6. "Access Hollywood" credits ratings increase to addition of former CBS sportscaster/occasional "Entertainment Tonight" substitute host Pat O'Brien
7. Former NAB joint board chairman Phil Jones resigns as president of Meredith Broadcasting; with John Loughlin named as his successor
8. Silver King Broadcasting decides to change the focus of WYHS-TV 69 in Miami from home shopping to locally-produced shows (by June 1998; it adopted the present WAMI calls as part of the renamed USA Broadcasting's short-lived efforts to launch its own network, with the company running into financial trouble and selling WAMI to Univision)
9. Special Report on original programming on cable networks (with the cover story being Comedy Central's recently-launched "South Park")
10. Lenfest Communications squabbling sees Tele-Communications Inc's John Malone and Leo Hindrey quit in dispute with Gerry Lenfest
11. CableLabs a major player in efforts to set standards for analog and digital set-top boxes
12. Women in Cable and Telecommunications study reveals female executives earning 15% less than male counterparts; though the gender gap was narrowing
13. CBS flagship WCBS-TV 2 in New York focuses on infrared camera system on their helicopter to allow low or no-light reports from scenes of heavy darkness
14. NBC's Intercast interactive efforts add the NFL on NBC and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" to the roster

Other stories of interest include: A Roper study on how Americans view the TV they watch; ABC & ESPN winning rights to radio coverage of the World Series beginning in 1998; MTV's "Live from the 10 Spot" sees David Bowie substitute for the Rolling Stones; TCI offers to buy up to 2 million set-tops with operating systems from Microsoft (still attempting to get a network of its own up and running) - with that deal sending stocks soaring; NextLevel Systems - three months removed from being spun off from General Instrument - finds itself plummeting and Richard Friedlander resigning as chairman; NFL owners debate TV rights along with labor issues; a story on how much early television history was lost due to wiping (ranging from the "I Love Lucy" pilot; the first televised address from the White House and Super Bowl I {by 2015; a copy that contained most - but not all - of the CBS broadcast of the first Super Bowl was discovered; though the NBC broadcast is still lost}); wireless cable expansion proposed by the FCC; a decline in anti-drug PSA's draws the ire of President Clinton; an ad touting 90-second TV commentary spots by Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson that was cleared in 56 markets (presumably most being in relatively socially conservative areas in the Midwest and South); Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV-TV 4 spends heavily on digital equipment from JVC as part of its effort to move to digital broadcasting; NBC using a disk-based facility named "Graceland" for its NFL replays; obituaries for "Inside Edition" correspondent Joel Loy and former AP president James Wesley Gallagher; NBC shaking up the Wednesday 8-9 p.m. hour (dumping "Built to Last" and shelving "The Tony Danza Show") while its TNBC block series "Hang Time" was supposed to feature a cameo from President Clinton on a November 1 episode (though checking Wikipedia's episode list doesn't show Clinton appearing in either of that day's episodes); "Jeopardy!" prepares for its first "Power Players Tournament" of journalists and politicians and an interview with Media Access Project executive director Gigi Beth Sohn

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