SUPER BOWL TV MONITOR: Last night's 11:00pm ET editions
of CNN/SI's "Sports Tonight" and ESPN's "SportsCenter" and
the 10:00pm ET edition of FSN's "Fox Sports News" all led
with coverage of Super Bowl XXXIV. The first non-Super Bowl
story on "Sports Tonight," at 21:34 into the broadcast, was
Kings-Knicks. CNN/SI's total air time devoted to Super Bowl
XXXIV was 43:06, with 20:08 in interviews at the Georgia
Dome, 2:56 of the post-game press conference and 20:02 of
studio analysis and highlights. The first non-Super Bowl
story on FSN's "Fox Sports News," at 28:18, was the Wizards
firing head coach Gar Heard. FSN's total air time devoted
to the Super Bowl was 49:02, with 32:57 of studio analysis
and highlights, 3:42 of the post-game press conference and
5:08 of interviews. The first non-Super Bowl story on
"SportsCenter," at 28:40, was the Wizards firing Heard.
Total Super Bowl coverage was 39:21, with 2:52 in post-game
press conference, 9:10 of interviews and 27:19 of studio
analysis and highlights (THE DAILY).
NOTES: iCraveTV.com was "shut out" of the U.S. by a
court order Saturday, a day before it planned to broadcast
the Super Bowl over the Internet. A U.S. judge "ordered"
the two-month-old Web site to "block" access to people in
the U.S. "or face charges" (NATIONAL POST, 1/29)....Fox
Sports Net takes out a full-page ad for its new game show
"Sports Geniuses" in USA TODAY's Business section (THE
DAILY)....76ers TV play-by-play announcer Marc Zumoff will
call the Suns-Sonics game on TNT Friday night with analyst
Hubie Brown (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 1/31)....In L.A.,
Larry Stewart reviews ESPN's "Matchup of the Millennium,"
and calls it a "fun thing put together by NFL Films. ... It
doesn't really matter who ends up winning. The fun part,
thanks to NFL Films, is the journey" (L.A. TIMES, 1/31).
