SportsChannel Florida announced the premiere of "Toyota
Bowl Week - Florida Style," the network's coverage of
Florida's top football bowl games, including the FedEx
Orange Bowl, the Toyota Gator Bowl, Carquest Bowl, Outback
Bowl and Citrus Bowl (SportsChannel)....ESPN Int'l acquired
exclusive live rights to broadcast all 14 games of the '97
Torneo de Verano summer Argentine Football Tournament
(ESPN)....The Golf Channel will host Tiger Woods from 8-
9:00pm ET, as a guest on TGC's live viewer call-in show
"Golf Talk Live" (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 12/18)...."Jock
Jams, Volume 2," a joint release from ESPN and Tommy Boy has
reached platinum status, selling more than one million
copies (ESPN)....The Cardinals' Boomer Esiason: "I know
broadcasting might be my future, but I don't think it will
ever whet my competitive appetite much like quarterbacking
does" ("Up Close," ESPN, 12/17)....ESPN's Keith Olbermann,
opening the late "SportsCenter" with colleague Dan Patrick,
who will sit in for "GMA" host Charles Gibson at the end of
the month: "Along side my tag-team partner Charles Gibson,
I'm Joan Lunden" ("SportsCenter," ESPN, 12/17).
...Cablevision's offer to Long Island, NY cable subscribers
to log on to the Internet through TV cable instead of a
telephone line was examined by "Moneyline." Cablevision is
aiming at 15,000 homes now and 150,000 a year from now.
CNN's Steve Young: "It's a start, but analysts say the
rollout of the new modems will be slowed because of the high
cost to cable operators of upgrading the rest of their
equipment" ("Moneyline," 12/17).
