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TORONTO REPORT HAS ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS ACQUIRING SPORTSNET

          Rogers Communications "will announce shortly" that it
     has purchased sports cable channel CTV Sportsnet, according
     to William Houston of the Toronto GLOBE & MAIL.  Sources say
     that the deal will include the "participation of the CBC" as
     a partner in providing production facilities, staff and
     studio space.  Sportsnet "was put in play" as a result of
     the Canadian Radio-TV and Telecom Commission ruling that CTV
     had to divest the channel as a condition of acquiring TSN. 
     Rogers, a minority shareholder in Sportsnet with 29.9%, had
     the right of first refusal on a deal (GLOBE & MAIL, 3/30).

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