Finebaum Signs With ESPN, SEC Network Audience For NBA Conf. Semis Down ESPN Layoffs Reportedly In "Low Hundreds" WNBA Sky Ink Five-Year Local TV Deal Cowboys HQs Could Leave Valley Ranch PGATour.com To Air Series On UW Golf Team ESPN Has First Mass Layoffs In Years Redskins' Training Camp Facility Nearly Complete SI Brass Discuss Future Of Publication "30 For 30" To Feature Pistons' Bad Boys
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MEDIA NOTES
Published November 17, 1997
N.Y. Fox-affiliate WNYC "was the only Fox affiliate in
the country not to pick up the national network feed" of the
Redskins-Cowboys game last night at 7:00pm ET. Fox Sports
VP/Media Relations Vince Wladika: "It was a decision that
our New York station made on Friday, and they are the only
one who chose not to go that route" (Baltimore SUN, 11/17).
...USA TODAY's Rudy Martzke reports that ESPN Radio, which
now consists of 16 weekend hours, will add 55 weeknight
hours in January, primarily game-related updates, as well as
15 weekday hours via talk from "The Sports Reporters"
panelist Tony Kornheiser (USA TODAY, 11/17)....Westinghouse
said it will officially change its name and stock symbol to
CBS on December 1. The Pittsburgh-based company sold its
industrial operations and said it will "focus solely on TV
and radio" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11/17)....CNBC's "The Edge"
examined the emergence of new women's sports magazines.
Dewitt Media President Gene Dewitt: "The [WNBA] sold out ...
Figure skating commands a premium now on [TV] and does a
very good rating. So there are enough signs to me that
women's sports are becoming more important and that makes
them more important to marketers" (CNBC, 11/14).




