"The Karl Malone Show" is back on the air on Salt Lake
City's KALL-AM. The station had been airing the program
until Malone's agent, Dwight Manley, requested that Malone
be paid by the station. KALL Sports Dir Brad Stone: "I
don't know the details, but Jacor (the owners of the
station) and Malone have come to financial terms" (DESERET
NEWS, 11/19)....Fox Sports will air weekend coverage of the
World Series of Golf, the network's first pro golf event, on
Saturday from 2:00-4:00pm ET/PT and Sunday from 4:30-6:30pm
ET/PT (Fox)....Keith Olbermann told SI's Steve Rushin that
the "pacing" of "Fox Sports News" is "different" from ESPN's
"SportsCenter." Olbermann: "The Fox shows are a roller
coaster and tend to make SportsCenter look like The NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer" (SI, 11/23 issue)....SPEEDNET's Bill Koenig
examines the prospects for the IRL's new TV deal. If the
IRL were to ink a TV deal with Fox, it "would mean relying
on Fox Sports Net, a collection of regional sports networks
with some national programming, for some races, including
the IRL's night races." On a possible deal with NBC, Koenig
adds that IRL execs "have said privately they have some
doubts about" putting races on CNBC and MSNBC (SPEEDNET,
11/20)....Raycom Sports' newest program is "not about
sports," as the Charlotte-based TV programmer "plans to
launch a new show next year aimed at reporting on and
finding missing children" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 11/20).
