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          TV MONITOR: Last night's 11:00pm ET edition's of FSN's
     "Primetime" (Fox Sports Net South), ESPN's "SportsCenter"
     and CNN/SI's "Sports Tonight" all led with Mets-Braves,
     followed by a post-game interview with Braves 3B Chipper
     Jones.  "SportsCenter" and "Sports Tonight" followed with
     Astros-Pirates, and "Primetime" followed with Cardinals-
     Cubs. The first non-MLB story on "Primetime," "SportsCenter"
     and "Sports Tonight" was Falcons RB Jamal Anderson's torn
     ACL, at 8:50, 10:10 and 7:10, respectively (THE DAILY).
          NOTES: The Penguins granted radio broadcast rights to
     WWSW for all their games for the '99-2000 season.  The games
     will be simulcast on WWSW-FM and WWSW-AM, which Penguins COO
     Tom Rooney called "an incredible advantage to the team and
     our fans" (TRIBUNE-REVIEW, 9/22)....Cubs 1B Mark Grace will
     be an analyst for ESPN during its World Series coverage
     (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 9/22)....HBO has renewed "Arli$$" for
     another season (DAILY VARIETY, 9/22)....In K.C., Jason
     Whitlock, on the absence of John Elway from ESPN's 100
     greatest athletes list: "Thank God ESPN is just an all-
     sports network.  It would probably leave George Washington
     off a list of the 100 most influential men in American
     history" (K.C. STAR, 9/21)....FSN's Jeanne Zelasko reported
     that Internet cameras have been installed in both dugouts at
     Wrigley Field during the Cardinals-Cubs series "to keep a
     close eye" on Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire (FSN, 9/21). 

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