TV & VIDEO - Oct. 25, 1988

Geraldo Rivera and NBC are buddies again. The reporter and the network resolved their differences over Rivera’s special on devil worship--scheduled for broadcast tonight at 8 (on Channels 4, 36 and 39)--without on-air “black” segments. The network had demanded cuts in the material used on “Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground” and Rivera balked, threatening to leave the censored segments black instead of filling them with substitute material. A spokeswoman for Rivera said marathon negotiations over the weekend were resolved “at the highest level,” but added, “the most incendiary scenes have been excised.”