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MEDIA NOTES

          ESPN and Lifetime will simulcast Game One of the WNBA
     Championship Series tomorrow at 8:00pm ET.  The two nets
     will have separate announcers and production crews providing
     different game coverage.  ESPN will focus more on game
     coverage, while Lifetime will offer a more "personality-
     driven and entertainment-oriented broadcast."  Saturday's
     Game Two will air on NBC at 4:00pm ET, while a Game Three,
     if necessary, will air Tuesday on ESPN at 6:30pm ET (WNBA).
          NOTES: In Baltimore, Milton Kent writes that while
     "slowly, but surely, women are finding more meaningful roles
     on football telecasts ... there will be no women wearing
     headsets in the booths" on any of the NFL TV partners this
     season.  CBS Exec Producer Terry Ewert: "[I]t's not a big
     pool of experienced people.  It's not something that we will
     not necessarily entertain in the future."  Kent: "For all
     its potential to engineer change in our society, sports
     truly is one of the last bastions of sexism left in America"
     (SUN, 8/26)....HBO's Arturo Gatti-Ivan Robinson fight last
     Saturday night on "Boxing After Dark" earned an 8.1/17
     rating among homes with HBO, while the entire show drew a
     7.4/17, winning the late night time slot against all
     broadcast and cable programming (HBO)....NFL Films and
     Polygram Video released the video "Elway: Champion Forever."
     The 60-minute video costs $19.95 (DENVER POST, 8/25). 

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