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TUBE TALK Who still wants to be a millionaire? Meredith Vieira does. And she will be, given her new deal with ABC. The New York Daily News reports that the ''View'' panelist will take on the extra duty of hosting the network's upcoming syndicated version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,'' and she'll receive double her current salary, reportedly $500,000 a year. The deal also means she won't be defecting to CBS to replace Bryant Gumbel when he leaves ''The Early Show'' next month. She was considered a top candidate for that job, but she's clearly given CBS her final answer....

Fox picked up a whopping 11 awards in 27 categories in last night's 23rd annual Sports Emmys presentation at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York. The network picked up five citations for its baseball coverage, including prizes for Joe Buck, who was named Best Play-By-Play Announcer for the second time in three years, and Tim McCarver, who won Best Event Analyst for the second straight year. After Fox, ESPN won seven awards, including a third straight Best Edited Series award for ''SportsCentury.'' The late Dick Schaap was the first winner of an award that had been named for him after he died last year; he was the posthumous winner of the Dick Schaap Outstanding Writing Award for his work on ESPN's ''Flashing Before My Eyes.'' Other winners included Fox's Terry Bradshaw (Best Studio Analyst) and HBO's Bob Costas, who shared the Best Studio Host award with TNT's Ernie Johnson.

Not only did a rerun top the Nielsen ratings this week, but the whole ratings race was a rerun. Again, ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' was the week's most-watched show (22.1 million viewers). Again, ''CSI'' and '''' helped CBS edge out a victory for the week (averaging 10.7 million viewers) over NBC (10.4 million). Again, ABC was a distant third (7.6 million), though it did manage to land a show in the top 20: Diane Sawyer's conclusion to her interview with Rosie O'Donnell on ''Primetime Thursday'' (No. 14, 12.7 million viewers). Fox was fourth with 6.9 million for the week, followed by the WB (3.6 million) and UPN (3.4 million ).

PASSING NOTES Jay Chiat, the adman whose Chiat/Day agency created some of TV's most innovative and memorable commercials, died Tuesday at his home in Marina Del Rey, Calif. He was 70 and had been battling prostate cancer. Two of his best known creations were the Energizer bunny and the ''1984'' spot for Apple's Macintosh computers, which singlehandedly transformed the Super Bowl into the advertising showcase it has been ever since....

Alan Dale, the crooner who had a million-selling hit with 1956's ''Heart of My Heart,'' died at 73 on Saturday. Born Aldo Sigismondi, he was one of TV's first stars, hosting ''The Alan Dale Show'' in 1948 when he was just 20. Other hits included ''''Oh, Marie'' and ''Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White.''