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).
