Fox in The Peacock Coop

By Janice Castro

When BARRY DILLER quit last fall as chairman of Fox, where he ran the film studio as well as the television network, he said he wanted to own something. Something sizable. Apparently he has been trying to buy the NBC television network from GE. The deal fizzled this summer, but Diller has told friends that "a window of opportunity" remains for the revised proposal he is preparing.