PEOPLE COLUMN

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, January 26, 1993                   TAG: 9301260285
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: from wire reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short
PEOPLE COLUMN
TV newswoman Connie Chung was caught off-guard when her husband, talk show host Maury Povich, telephoned her at home and asked a question about their sex life.
He was taping his show - before an audience - at the time.
Povich's show, being broadcast Monday, was about a magazine's survey on the sex life of the American wife.
Povich called Chung at home, advised her that their conversation was being listened to by a studio audience, and asked her if she talks during lovemaking - one of the questions in the survey.
After hesitating for a minute, Chung responded, "Oh, I don't think I can do this. This is like `The Newlywed Game.' Do I get a prize if I get it right?"
It appears the commute finally got to Bob Costas.
The Emmy Award-winning sportscaster says he's stepping down after nine years as host of NBC's "NFL Live" because he wants to spend more time at home in St. Louis with wife Randy and their two children.
He's been shuttling between St. Louis and New York for six years.
"I want my career to fit into my life, not the other way around," Costas said in the Feb. 1 issue of People.
His swan song for "NFL Live" will be Sunday at Super Bowl XXVII.
Also expiring this year is his contract for "Later with Bob Costas," the non-sports talk show that follows "Late Night with David Letterman" on NBC.
Costas, 40, says he's weighing his options, but insists he's not "about to disappear."

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB