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Roddick To Co-Host FS1 Flagship News Program; Not Looking For Tennis TV Role05 / 23 / 13Former tennis player Andy Roddick yesterday was announced as a co-host of "Fox Sports Live," the flagship news program for the upcoming Fox Sports 1 network, and he said that he will appear on the show "between Monday and Friday, working either four or five nights depending on the week," according t... Tags: Media |
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TNT'S FOOTBALL PACKAGE TO UNDERGO SOME CHANGES
Turner Sports President Harvey Schiller and Exec Producer Mike Pearl have turned their attention to TNT''s NFL coverage, and "change is in the air," according to Prentis Rogers of the ATLANTA CONSTITU
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Rupert Murdoch told Canada''s FINANCIAL POST that News Corp. has decided against bidding for the worldwide TV rights to the 2000 Sydney Summer Games, because it is "too complicated." However, he remai
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MULTIMEDIA UPDATE: THE ONLINE BATTLE IS SET TO BEGIN
Microsoft''s exclusive online service agreement with NBC, signed earlier this month, launched "the first volley in what promises to be a ferocious battle over one of the hottest growth industries in t
CAN FOX BUILD UP HOCKEY JUST BY COVERING IT?
The ratings gap between the NBA on NBC and the NHL on Fox (last weekend''s NBA games drew four times more viewers than the NHL) "proved again that hockey remains a regional sport, in spite of the opti
Tags: Canadian Broadcasting Corp., ESPN, NBA, NBC, New Jersey Devils, News Corp./Fox, NHL, Pittsburgh Penguins, Media, Walt Disney, YankeeNets
CANADIAN NETS BATTLE OVER NAGANO RIGHTS
With the IOC decision on Canadian TV rights to the Nagano ''98 Games due on Thursday, the fee is expected to be higher than the C$16M CTV paid for the Lillehammer Games -- "but by how much is speculat
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MEDIA NOTES
A NY State Supreme Court ruling that Prodigy "is a publisher and may be sued for libel could have a far-reaching impact on how much other online services try to regulate all kinds of content" (Michell
DENVER STATIONS SCRAMBLE TO SIGN ON WITH NEW NHL ENTRY
In Denver, Dusty Saunders reports that KKFN-AM (The Fan) has the "inside track" to broadcast rights to the soon-to-be-renamed Nordiques when they move to Denver next year. Jefferson Pilot- owned KKFN,
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TCI LOOKS TO GIVE LIBERTY ITS FREEDOM AGAIN
Less than ten months after recombining TCI with his Liberty Media programming company, TCI Chair John Malone is looking to split the two entities again, according to Allan Sloan in the current NEWSWEE
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AUTO RACING BULLETIN BOARD AND HOME PAGE MAKE THEIR DEBUTS
The Auto Racing Bulletin Board on Prodigy and the Auto Racing Home page on the Internet made their debuts yesterday, just in time for the Indy 500. Both the Bulletin Board and the Home Page will be ho
LOCAL BASEBALL RATINGS: 19 OF 28 MLB OUTLETS ARE DOWN
THE SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY surveyed broadcast and cable outlets that carry baseball in 22 MLB markets, and found that 19 of those outlets are showing lower ratings for their baseball telecasts. In most
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