Media Notes
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Jim Courier Will Twitter During
Exhibition Match Against McEnroe |
In DC, Liz Clarke noted tennis player Jim Courier will "give fans a peek Saturday when he becomes the first player to twitter during a match" when he plays John McEnroe in an exhibition match at Turning Stone Resort & Casino. Courier: "I'm going to be pretty candid about what just happened -- whatever strategy changes I'm thinking about, if I got a bad call, whether he's getting into my head. ... Why not give people something a little bit different? It can be a very effective tool to communicate with people. And it has a very good cost-benefit ratio because it doesn't cost anything." Clarke notes Courier "plans to start posting at http://www.twitter.com/jimcourier from the locker room before" the 7:00pm ET match (WASHINGTON POST, 4/30).
BLUE JAY WAY: In Toronto, Chris Zelkovich noted the first Blue Jays game scheduled for TSN2 is on May 19, and while a deal to carry the channel on Rogers Cable will "probably get done by then, this whole stalemate ... has been a bit of a mystery." However, "one thing is for sure: It's not about the asking price for TSN2." Sources said that TSN is "asking Rogers to pay less than 30 cents a month per subscriber." TSN by comparison "gets more than [C]$1 a month" (THESTAR.com, 4/29).
OFF-AIR: In Boston, Michael Whitmer writes golfer Lorena Ochoa "holding off Suzann Pettersen and defending her title" at the LPGA Corona Championship last weekend "would have made for great TV if the ... event had been televised" in the U.S. Due to a "condensed schedule and off weeks, there's been one four-week gap and two three-week gaps between televised LPGA Tour events, making the ability to generate fan interest or build any momentum virtually impossible" (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/30).
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