Television Broadcasts

The Grammy Awards air tonight at 8 (tape delayed) on KCBS-TV Channel 2.

A federal appeals court said it will not allow proceedings from convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh's appeal to be telecast by closed circuit television to victims in Oklahoma City. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver gave no reason for its decision. Prosecutors had asked the court to make an exception to its rules and allow a telecast of oral arguments to Oklahoma City for victims and relatives of people who died in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P.

So, Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball (it says here). Whoever. It was founded with the almost perfect geometry for its purposes--90 feet between bases, 60 feet 6 inches from pitcher's mound to batter, nine men to a team, three outs a side, three strikes and you're out, the ball in play only between the foul lines, unless you popped it up. If an infielder played a ball perfectly, you were out. You have about 3.4 seconds to beat the throw.

Organ donor hotlines were jammed after the television showing of "Nicholas' Gift," a movie based on the killing of 7-year-old Nicholas Green of Bodega Bay. The boy was killed by bandits in 1994 while his family was on vacation in Italy. His parents, Reg and Maggie Green, agreed to donate his organs and their decision set off an outpouring of organ donations in Italy, which had the lowest donor rate in Europe at the time.

For the second meeting in a row, the City Council has voted against allowing a live broadcast of environmental board hearings on the controversial Bixby Ranch development--even though their own attorney told them the vote means nothing. "It's out of the city's hands," City Atty. Quinn Barrow said.

The City Council voted down a proposal to televise Planning Commission meetings that focus on a controversial Shell Oil Co. project to build 2,100 homes in the Chino Hills above the city. Councilman Henry W. Wedaa suggested at Tuesday's council meeting that Planning Commission meetings be televised because of the substantial community interest in the development of the 5,000-acre oil field. The suggestion failed 2 to 3. Mayor Gene Wisner and council members Barbara Kiley and John M.

Don't expect any CBS executives to complain about the restrictions put on them in covering the Masters. They gladly accept them. Lance Barrow, CBS' coordinating producer of golf who has been involved with the Masters in one capacity or another for 25 years, says, "There are no written rules. That's a misnomer. It's one of the biggest myths in sports. "We are business partners. We all sit down and discuss how we can have the best possible telecast.

Need more on the Masters than CBS and USA can provide? There is always the Golf Channel. "Golf Central," the only half-hour nightly news program on television devoted strictly to golf, will offer extensive highlights every day at 4:30 p.m. There is also "Viewer's Forum," with Peter Kessler and golf analyst Mark Lye, nightly at 5 and 9. There will be a special two-hour edition Sunday night.

First a thundering boom, then a thundering "Whoa!" It was CNN's ace war reporter, Christiane Amanpour, off camera and sounding blown off her feet Thursday by an epic blast in Baghdad that shook the roof of Iraq's Ministry of Information building, where she and other journalists were posted in the open. "There was a very large explosion," said Amanpour, the globe's most famous war correspondent and one of the coolest under fire. So if she appeared shaken, you knew the jolt was genuine. "Whoa!"

With President Clinton's impeachment today by the House of Representatives now a foregone conclusion, the real audience for Friday's marathon debate was the jury in living rooms across America. The debate opened the next stage of the increasingly ferocious struggle over Clinton's future--the battle to shape the public's interpretation of today's historic vote.