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          Fox Sports Online, www.foxsports.com, has created a new
     All-Star Game area which will launch on Monday.  The site
     will "grade each team as they head" into the All-Star break,
     "offer virtual coverage" of the game and daily reports and
     photos as well as a historical look at past games and
     players (N.Y. POST, 6/26)....In Boston, Howard Manly writes
     that TNT "provided basketball junkies with solid coverage of
     the NBA draft" (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/27). In Detroit, Joe Falls:
     "Surprisingly, I enjoyed the NBA draft on TV even if I
     didn't know many of the players.  The reason: Hubie Brown's
     comments.  A lot of people get annoyed with this man but he
     knows his basketball and, even better, he knows how to talk
     basketball" (DETROIT NEWS, 6/27)....In N.Y., Steve Zipay
     writes that the "first fallout" from the Fox/Liberty-
     Cablevision deal is that the July 9 launch of American
     Sports Classics (ASC) "has been delayed until at least the
     fall."  The channel will now be "managed" by Fox/Liberty and
     based in L.A., and Zipay reports that Fox "is unhappy with
     ASC's library, which does not include replay rights from
     some leagues" (NEWSDAY, 6/27)....After a seven week absence,
     Titleist "has quietly" placed new ads in Sports Illustrated. 
     SI publisher David Long: "We're happy to have them back." 
     Titleist had pulled ads after an SI article around the 
     Dinah Shore LPGA Tour event (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 6/27).
     ...During the Padres-Giants game Monday, for the first time
     each team used Princeton Video Image's L-VIS virtual
     advertising system on their respective broadcasts.  During
     the game, SportsChannel Pacific viewers in S.F. saw an ad
     behind home plate for the Bravo Card, S.D. viewers saw an ad
     for the San Diego Zoo on Cox Cable 4 (PVI)....In Toronto,
     Ken McKee writes that Global's ratings for the Maple Leafs
     for the past season "plunged" more than 30% to 409,000
     viewers per minute.  The "largest single-game audience,
     591,000, was lower than the per-game average over the entire
     1995-1996 campaign (549,000)" (TORONTO STAR, 6/27).

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