In a "slap" to Rupert Murdoch's cable news "ambitions," Time
Warner will carry the all-news network MSNBC on half of its
systems as part of its deal with antitrust regulators. Time
Warner is the nation's second largest cable operator (WALL STREET
JOURNAL, 9/20)....HTS Dir of Programming and Exec Producer Bill
Brown will leave the RSN to become Senior Producer at Fox Sports
(Baltimore SUN, 9/20)....In Washington, Leonard Shapiro on the
Fox/Liberty sports network to debut November 1: "At the moment,
there are major holes in this system. There is no Fox/Liberty
presence in Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Chicago
or San Francisco." Fox is reportedly looking to "plug the gaps
by adding existing cable operations in those cities now under the
SportsChannel umbrella" (WASHINGTON POST, 9/20)....Fox has the
NFL doubleheader Sunday. The early national game is almost
evenly divided between Packers-Vikings (36% of the US) and 49ers-
Panthers (28%). The late Cowboys-Bills game will be seen in 74%
of the country....Fox Saturday Baseball features Red Sox-Yankees
(62%); Dodgers-Padres (22%) and Twins-White Sox (10%) (Fox).
