MEDIA NOTES

          ESPN will televise Game 1 of the Ducks-Coyotes playoff
     series, but the ESPN telecast is "scheduled to be blacked
     out" in Southern CA because of Fox Sports West 2.  The Ducks
     "are fighting to get the ESPN blackout lifted" because FSW2
     is available on only a few cable systems in Southern CA and
     none in Orange County (L.A. TIMES, 4/14)....N.Y. POST
     columnist Phil Mushnick: "There's a war brewing between
     baseball's national regular-season rights holders, Fox and
     ESPN, over which network gets first crack at using
     technological innovations."  Mushnick reports that ESPN was
     set last week to use a mini-camera on a catcher's mask, but
     MLB "put the kibosh on it, claiming Fox, which plans to use
     the same kind of camera next month when its Saturday Games
     of the Week begin, asked first" (N.Y. POST, 4/13)....In
     N.Y., Elsen & Curdele writes "all four major networks have
     expressed interest" in New York's WBIS+, but ITT considers
     Fox "the most serious of the four" (N.Y. POST, 4/14).