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MEDIA NOTES

          TV MONITOR: Last night's 11:00pm ET edition of "Fox
     Sports News" (Fox Sports South) led with Astros-Cardinals,
     followed by Rangers-Red Sox.  CNN/SI's "Sports Tonight" led
     with Astros-Cardinals, followed by the Stars victory parade
     in Dallas.  ESPN's "SportsCenter" at 11:30pm ET led with
     Astros-Cardinals, followed by Devil Rays-Twins (THE DAILY). 
          THE STARS WERE BRIGHT: In Dallas, Barry Horn writes
     that ESPN pulled a 19.5 Nielsen rating in the Dallas-Ft.
     Worth area for Saturday's Stanley Cup Finals Game Six. 
     During the final quarter-half hour, the rating "was up to a
     22.1, which translates into about 433,160 homes."  Exactly
     50% of TVs in Dallas turned on at the "time of the goal,
     were tuned to ESPN."  Overall, the three Stanley Cup Finals
     on Fox averaged a 25.2 rating in Dallas, while the three
     games on ESPN averaged a 16.6 local rating (DALLAS MORNING
     NEWS, 6/22).  In Baltimore, Milton Kent writes that ESPN
     "did its audience a tremendous disservice" by not having a
     "meaningful replay" of Brett Hull's controversial goal until
     "about 20 minutes after" the game (Baltimore SUN, 6/22).   
          WOMEN'S WORLD CUP: ABC Sports Dir of PR Mark Mandel, on
     Saturday's Women's World Cup scoring a 2.2/6 overnight
     Nielsen rating, compared to the U.S. Open's 5.3/15 and MLB's
     2.8 on Fox: "For the time being, the ratings this past
     weekend are very acceptable and encouraging.  You have a
     major golf tournament with incredible drama and Tiger
     (Woods) and baseball is our national pastime.  It's really
     unfair to compare the World Cup to those events" (AP/DETROIT
     NEWS, 6/22).  In Milwaukee, Bob Wolfley writes that the
     rating "does not suggest that as a television event soccer
     is attracting legions of viewers."  Wolfley adds it will "be
     interesting to see how much the ratings move up" as the U.S
     team continues to advance.  Wolfley: "It doesn't figure to
     move much" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 6/22).    
          NOTES: AOL will invest $1.5B in Hughes Electronics
     Corp. "to promote satellite delivery of Internet services." 
     AOL and Hughes "believe satellites will eventually provide
     ultrafast Web surfing to millions."  Hughes will "invite
     AOL's 16 million customers to sign up for satellite TV" 
     (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 6/22)....GOLF WORLD's Geoff Russell
     cites a source as saying that NBC's Dick Enberg is "hoping
     NBC will agree to a non-exclusive arrangement that would
     allow him to do football for one of the other networks,
     while retaining his tennis and golf duties" with NBC (GOLF
     WORLD, 6/18 issue)....In Baltimore, Milton Kent writes on
     Mike Lupica's and Rick Telander's comments on their interest
     in women's sports during Sunday's "The Sports Reporters" on
     ESPN (See THE DAILY, 6/21). Kent: "If you don't like women's
     sports, that's great.  Don't watch them or cover them, but
     don't discount the growing number of people who do enjoy
     them, because you don't get it" (Baltimore SUN, 6/22).

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