EXPOS' PURSUIT OF NATIONAL CANADIAN TV COVERAGE UNSUCCESSFUL

          In Montreal, what "appeared to be promising
     negotiations" between the Expos and the CBC collapsed after
     CBC "refused to offer more than $10,000 a game for broadcast
     rights" to Expos games, according to Marty York of the
     Toronto GLOBE & MAIL.  Expos President Claude Brochu: "It
     was a joke.  All we need are 1,000 fans to come to our park
     for a game and we can make $10,000.  No club in major-league
     baseball would accept $10,000 a game for a television deal,
     because the figure is outrageously low."  York notes this
     will be the eighth consecutive season that the Expos will be
     unavailable to Canadian viewers on "conventional" TV.  TSN
     will offer cable viewers 25 Expos games this season, paying
     $25,000 a broadcast, "but that's hardly consolation to
     Brochu."  Brochu: "The deal we have with TSN is outrageously
     low, too."  Brochu said he will "revisit this whole issue"
     of TV after the season.  Brochu: "It may mean that we
     produce our own games and sell them to independent stations
     throughout the country" (Toronto GLOBE & MAIL, 3/24).