The Brewers' two-year contract with WVTV comes to an end at
the end of the season and the team "will decide in the next few
months whether to continue" with the channel or make a change,
according to Bob Wolfley of the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL. The
team took over production and sold ads for the telecasts starting
in '95 and ratings through 64 of the team's 66 games are a 5.5/11
share, up from a 5.3 in '95. In '94, the games had a 7.5.
Brewers VP/Broadcast Sales Mitch Nye said the team will "analyze
what we need to do for 1997 and beyond." Nye: "Everything right
now is up in the air" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 9/25).
NEWS & NOTES: Mike Goldberg, who had been a play-by-play
announcer for ESPN and ESPN2, has been named TV broadcaster for
the Red Wings (DETROIT NEWS, 9/25)....NESN's AHL package will
consist of twenty games beginning November 11 and running through
April 12 (AHL)....The Padres late yesterday lifted the local TV
blackout for tonight's 7:35pm PT game against the Rockies,
allowing ESPN to broadcast it in San Diego. ESPN had planned to
show the Dodgers-Giants game everywhere except San Francisco and
L.A. but the Padres contacted ESPN and said they wanted to have
their game shown in San Diego (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 9/25).
