FCC SAYS CLASSIC SPORTS HAS CASE AGAINST CABLEVISION

          The "feud" between Classic Sports Network (CSN) and
     Cablevision Systems "reached a new boil yesterday" with an
     FCC finding that CSN "had built a case against Cablevision
     for demanding ownership" of CSN in exchange for carrying the
     network on its Long Island, NY, cable systems, according to
     Richard Sandomir of the N.Y. TIMES.  But, Sandomir writes,
     the finding is "preliminary and did not order" Cablevision
     to place CSN on the Long Island system that has 2.8 million
     subscribers.  The FCC has "remanded" the case to an
     administrative law judge.  Sandomir calls the finding an
     "early victory in Classic's attempt to prove that
     Cablevision violated a Federal law that bars cable system
     owners from demanding financial interests in program
     services in exchange for being carried" (N.Y. TIMES, 7/17).