GIANTS CHARTER SEAT SALES SET TO SURPASS PROJECTIONS

          The MLB Giants have put their remaining charter seat
     licenses in their planned new park are on sale, as 9,000 of
     13,700 licenses have already been sold to season ticket
     holders, leaving 4,700 licenses "still up for grabs,"
     according to Torri Minton of the S.F. CHRONICLE.  The
     charter rights weren't going to go on sale until the summer,
     but the Giants said the sales "have been much more brisk
     than expected."  The Giants are the first MLB team to offer
     a charter seat program, and the team "expected" to raise
     $40M through the sale to help finance its new $255M
     ballpark.  Giants Exec VP Larry Baer: "[T]here's no doubt
     that we're going to surpass our projections for charter seat
     revenue" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 4/22).  In contrast to the
     CHRONICLE, a report in the S.F. BUSINESS TIMES said charter
     seats are "rounding third -- albeit sluggishly" (S.F.
     BUSINESS CHRONICLE, 4/21 issue).