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NBC PULLS AN 11.9/22 FOR GAME FIVE OF NBA FINALS, DOWN 43%

          NBC's telecast of Friday's Game Five of the NBA Finals
     pulled an 11.9/22 overnight Nielsen rating, down 43% from
     last year's 20.7/36 (NBC).  A N.Y. TIMES editorial today
     states that NBA Finals ratings "were down, probably because
     Michael Jordan was not around and because the viewers
     decided this was a mismatch.  Too bad for the viewers.  They
     missed the formal certification of Tim Duncan as a true
     superstar. ... Above all they missed the magical, real-time
     evolution of the Knicks" (N.Y. TIMES, 6/28).
          A WAR OF WORDS: In Boston, Howard Manly wrote that NBC
     analyst Bill Walton calling Knicks F Larry Johnson "a sad
     human being" and "a disgrace ... goes beyond analysis to
     outright slander.  Even in sports journalism there are
     parameters. ... Walton clearly overstepped his bounds"
     (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/27).  In Houston, David Barron reports that
     the MSG crowd "was vocal" during NBC's halftime show inside
     the arena on Friday.  The show featured the four announcers
     using hand-held microphones, but "the catcalls and jeers
     directed at Walton were clearly audible to the NBC
     audience."  "Showtime" host Hannah Storm: "It was to the
     point where we had trouble hearing each other and hearing
     ourselves think" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 6/28).  

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