THE GAME MUST GO ON FOR CBC: NETWORK TO USE NHL FEED AGAIN

          The CBC "is preparing" to call Saturday's Panthers-
     Maple Leafs game "from a studio" in Long Island due to the
     continuing technicians strike, according to Chris Zelkovich
     of the TORONTO STAR.  Insiders say that SportsChannel FL
     will hire a freelance crew to work the broadcast from the
     Air Canada Centre and then "turn over its feed" to the NHL. 
     As the league did last week, it will then feed the sound and
     pictures to "Hockey Night In Canada" in a separate studio,
     and "HNIC" announcers Bob Cole and Harry Neale will call the
     game off monitors in Long Island.  CBC's coverage of last
     week's Canadiens-Maple Leafs game drew an audience of 1.5
     million, about 300,000 more than the season average, but
     "almost half a million less than the previous week's final
     game at Maple Leaf Gardens" (TORONTO STAR, 2/24).