MEDIA NOTES

          MCANDREWS OUT AT ABC: USA TODAY's Rudy Martzke writes
     that ABC Sports Exec VP/GM Brian McAndrews "is out," and an
     ABC/ESPN exec is "expected to be named president of ABC
     Sports."  Among the candidates: ESPN's Howard Katz, Steve
     Anderson, John Walsh and Jeff Ruhe (USA TODAY, 3/24).
          A RATINGS GOAL? MLS's MetroStars-Fusion season opener
     on ESPN2 drew a .4 Nielsen rating.  MLS Commissioner Doug
     Logan said the rating is the same as last year's opener: "It
     is a 7 percent increase in the number of households, which
     increased about 16,000.  It is almost identical to the
     opening game for the NHL on ESPN2, which was a Boston at
     Colorado game on Oct. 14" (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 3/24).
          NOTES: ESPN and the GO Network will produce
     "Sportsfigures," a series of videotapes which will teach
     math and physics to high school students using sports themes
     and personalities (WASHINGTON POST, 3/24).  ESPN will
     distribute the series to all 18,000 high schools across the
     country and will also air the series commercial-free on
     ESPN2 (USA TODAY)....ESPN runs a full page ad in USA TODAY
     promoting its inaugural coverage on Saturday of the
     "Wheaties Open," which was the second stop on the '99
     WalMart FLW Tour and was taped back in February (THE DAILY).
     

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