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FSN FEELING OUT MINNESOTA: NET MAKES PLANS TO LAUNCH RSN

          Having "lost" to Comcast in an attempt to buy Midwest
     Sports Channel, FSN execs are "moving forward with plans to
     start" an RSN in the Minneapolis market, according to Judd
     Zulgad of the Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE.  The "centerpiece"
     of the programming will be 50 Wild games.  FSN Rocky
     Mountain VP & GM Tim Griggs said that Fox execs "want to
     have the network in Minnesota launched by the time the Wild
     begins its season in early October."  FSN has started
     selling advertising, with the staff at the Fox-owned station
     in Milwaukee handling sales in the Twin Cities until people
     are hired locally.  FSN also ran classified ads for various
     positions in the local papers and "has begun looking for
     office space."  Zulgad writes the question is "how quickly
     it can get on cable systems such as Time Warner and
     MediaOne."  Locally, execs at both cable companies are
     "skeptical" about FSN Minnesota "getting immediate channel
     clearance on their systems," but Griggs said that "talks on
     the corporate level have been ongoing and will soon start at
     the local level" (Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE, 7/28).

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