TV MONITOR: Last night's 10:00pm ET 60-minute edition
of FSN's "National Sports Report" led with Darryl Strawberry
appearing in court, followed by Mariners P Jose Mesa also in
court, where a judge ruled he will have to stand trial for a
concealed weapons charge. The first report on the PGA
Tour's National Car Rental Classic was at 2:13 into the
broadcast. "NSR" did not report on the World Series. Last
night's 11:00pm ET 30-minute edition of CNN/SI's "Sports
Tonight" led with the National Car Rental Classic, followed
by the sanctions levied by the NBA against the T'Wolves.
"Sports Tonight" had 0:20 of World Series coverage. Last
night's 11:00pm ET (late due to NCAA football) 60-minute
edition of ESPN's "SportsCenter" led with Capitals-Bruins,
followed by Rangers-Flyers. The first report on the
National Car Rental Classic was at 7:22. "SportsCenter" had
18:29 of total World Series coverage (THE DAILY).
NOTES: In its legal proceedings against the PGA Tour
over real-time scoring, GA-based Morris Communications was
"denied a preliminary injunction and will not be allowed to
sell" tournament scores to other media "pending the outcome
of its antitrust lawsuit" (see THE DAILY, 10/13). District
Court Judge Harvey Schlesinger wrote in his decision Morris
"wants to capitalize not just on the golf scores themselves,
but also on [the Tour's] mechanism for simultaneously
gathering and generating the scoring information." Morris
said that it would "proceed with its lawsuit" (AP,
10/25)....USA TODAY's Rudy Martzke cites Showtime exec
Marina Capurro as saying that last Friday night's Mike
Tyson-Andrew Golota bout "received about" 450,000 PPV buys,
"more than the 300,000 estimated by Gould Media" (see THE
DAILY, 10/25). Capurro: "I don't think Gould counted home
satellite dishes" (USA TODAY, 10/27). While Quokka's stock
price has enjoyed a "brief pre-Olympics run, more than
doubling in July to $9.59 per share," it hit an "all-time
low" of $2.69 this month and closed Wednesday at $2.94.
Quokka COO Alvaro Saralegui's "only explanation" is that the
company is "a victim of the same forces that have clobbered
every other Internet stock" recently. Saralegui: "For a
company the size of Quokka, the sector means more than what
we do. The whole industry has been pretty banged up. We
have to fight through that" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 10/26).
