In Houston, Warner Cable agreed to pay 10,669 of its
subscribers "about $175,000" for May 17, 1994, when part of
a Suns-Rockets playoff game was blacked out due to equipment
failure. An additional $125,000 in attorney's fees brought
the total of the class-action settlement to $300,000
(HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 9/29)....In St. Petersburg, Eric Deggans
calls ABC's "Monday Night Blast" pre-game show "a 20-minute
pep-rally that proves ABC couldn't find a real show anyone
wanted to watch before football" (ST. PETE TIMES, 9/29).
ESPN's Chris Berman: "Welcome to the ESPN Zone where we're
still cleaning up Joe Theismann's meals from yesterday"
("Monday Night Countdown," ESPN, 9/28)....NFL Sunday Ticket
is on pace to break its subscriber record, as it will reach
700,000 subscribers in '98, up from 550,000 last season.
More than 10,000 commercial establishments also have the
package (NFL)....Cheryl Ladd will be a guest sportscaster
for Lifetime's coverage of the Lifetime/AFLAC Tournament of
Champions for Breast Cancer Awareness from October 8-11 in
AL (Lifetime)....CBS awarded one million American Airlines
AAdvantage miles to a viewer who correctly answered
questions about five new programs that debuted on CBS last
Monday. Viewers entered CBS's "Million Mile Monday" sweeps
via entry forms in the American Way in-flight magazine, or
on American and CBS's Web sites (MEDIA CENTRAL, 9/29).
