NEW PLANS FOR FOX SPORTS INTERACTIVE CABLE COME TO LIGHT

          Fox Sports Extra and Fox Sports Active are "coming to a
     digital set-top box near you" in '01, according to Joe
     Schlosser of BROADCASTING & CABLE, who writes that the
     interactive services are designed for the "couch-potato
     quarterback" to customize their "viewing experience" or to
     instantly receive the scores and data they want.  Using a
     remote control, viewers will be able to "personalize their
     on-screen sports ticker," watch replays "at will," choose
     their own camera angle, order a pizza, buy movie tickets or
     purchase a team jersey.  Fox will "deal with cable and DBS
     operators to split revenues or cede commercial time in
     exchange for carriage" of the services.  The services are
     not separate networks or channels; they are "digital
     attachments that take up a fraction of the bandwidth that
     cable operators use."  Some of the interactive services
     could be coming into digital HHs "within the next several
     months," and Fox Sports' coverage of the Daytona 500 "will
     likely" be the net's first interactive event (B&C, 11/27).