MEDIA NOTES

     ESPN has won exclusive rights to Big Ten Conference football
and basketball games not on a national network beginning with the
'95 football season through 2000-2001 (THE DAILY)....TSN will air
two games from each of the AHL, IHL, and junior hockey leagues
over the the next month (TORONTO STAR, 10/7)....Home Teams
Sports, the MD-based regional sports cable network, is still
offering a full schedule of sports programming.  But HTS, will
take a "significant hit" -- $2M or more in lost ad revenue -- if
hockey is out for an extended period (WASHINGTON POST,
10/7)....NFL ratings were released yesterday:  NBC is up 21%;
Fox's is 1% better than CBS in '93; TNT is up 12%; and ABC is
down 3% (Rudy Martzke, USA TODAY, 10/7).