TV MONITOR: Last night's 10:00pm ET 60-minute edition
of FSN's "National Sports Report" led with Tigers-Blue Jays,
followed by reports that the Yankees are interested in
trading for Astros OF Moises Alou and P Jose Lima and a
scoring update on Yankees-Red Sox. The first non-MLB
report, at 5:23 into the broadcast, was the Lakers' victory
parade in L.A. Last night's 11:00pm ET 30-minute edition of
CNN/SI's "Sports Tonight" led with Yankees-Red Sox, followed
by the Lakers' parade and CNN/SI's Nick Charles' interview
with Mike Tyson. Last night's 11:00pm ET 60-minute edition
of ESPN's "SportsCenter" led with Yankees-Red Sox, followed
by Cubs-Braves and Phillies-Mets. The first non-MLB report,
at 8:43, was the Lakers' parade (THE DAILY).
CBS' TAKE ON ESPN: CBS' "Late Show" had the skit,
"What's On TV This Week." One option: ESPN - "sports";
ESPN2 - "crappy sports"; ESPN Classic - "crappy old sports";
Yankees-White Sox - "Chuck Knoblauch makes 157 throwing
errors and is taken out in the third inning" (CBS, 6/21).
MTV JAMS? ELECTRONIC MEDIA reports that the NBA is
"talking" with MTV about developing a half-hour show that
would feature profiles of NBA "stars." NBA Exec
VP/Programming Gregg Winik said that the league is also in
talks with The Food Network on a show that would "transport
NBA stars from the courts to the kitchen" (E. MEDIA, 6/19).
NOTES: In Las Vegas, Jeff Wolf writes that "one of the
... priorities" of new PBA co-Owners Chris Peters, Rob
Glaser and Mike Slade is to "get the PBA Tour back to a
regular time slot on a major television network." Peters,
on any new TV deal: "I'm not going to talk about the TV
contract other than to say that Mike Slade is personal
friends with every guy at Disney, ABC and ESPN. I'll leave
it at that" (REVIEW-JOURNAL, 6/22)....WCCO-AM and the Twins
announced an extension of their radio agreement through the
2003 season (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 6/22).
