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Exhibit 3(i)
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CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

TO

RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

KING WORLD PRODUCTIONS, INC.



          KING WORLD PRODUCTIONS, INC., a corporation organized and existing 
under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation"), DOES HEREBY 
CERTIFY as follows:

          FIRST:  that at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the 
Corporation held on October 28, 1997, a resolution was duly passed setting 
forth a proposed amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the 
Corporation, declaring such amendment to be advisable and directing that such 
amendment be submitted to the stockholders of the Corporation for their 
approval at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held on January 19, 1998 
(the "Annual Meeting").  The resolution approving the proposed amendment is as 
follows:

     RESOLVED, that the Board of Directors hereby proposes, approves and 
declares the advisability of an amendment to Article IV of the Restated 
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation increasing the number of 
shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Corporation (the 
"Common Stock"), that the Corporation is authorized to issue from 75,000,000 
to 150,000,000 and the total number of shares which the Corporation is 
authorized to issue from 80,000,000 to 155,000,000.

          SECOND:  that the amendment to the Restated Certificate of 
Incorporation effected by this Certificate was duly authorized at the Annual 
Meeting by the holders of a majority of the outstanding stock of the 
Corporation entitled to vote thereon, after first having been declared 
advisable by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, all in accordance with 
the provisions of Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the state of 
Delaware.

          THIRD:  that the capital of the Corporation will not be reduced 
under, or by reason of, the foregoing amendment to the Restated Certificate of 
Incorporation of the Corporation.

          FOURTH:  that by reason of the approval of the amendment to the 
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corpora-
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tion by the stockholders, the first paragraph of Article IV of the Restated 
Certificate of Incorporation, as previously amended by an amendment thereto 
dated as of August 27, 1986, shall henceforth read in its entirety as follows:

     "The total number of shares of stock which the Corporation shall have 
authority to issue is one hundred fifty-five million (155,000,000) shares, 
consisting of five million (5,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, par value 
$.01 per share (hereinafter called "Preferred Stock"), and one hundred fifty 
million (150,000,000) shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per shares 
(hereinafter called "Common Stock")."

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, KING WORLD PRODUCTIONS, INC. has caused this 
Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be 
signed by an officer of the Corporation thereunto duly authorized, hereby 
declaring, certifying and acknowledging under penalties of perjury that the 
facts herein stated are true and that this Certificate of Amendment is the act 
and deed of the Corporation this 28th day of January 1998.

                              KING WORLD PRODUCTIONS, INC.



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