The World Research Group's Interactive Sports
Conference began yesterday at New York City's Hilton &
Towers. Wednesday's scheduled speakers/moderators: IBM
Global Telecom and Media Industries VP/Broadcasting, Sports
& Cable WILLIAM MOSES; ESPN Chilton Sports Poll Exec Dir
RICHARD LUKER; SportsLine USA Founder MIKE LEVY; ABC News
Internet & ESPN Internet Ventures President TOM PHILLIPS;
AudioNet President MARK CUBAN; Ad Age Exec Editor SCOTT
DONATON; ABC News/ESPN Internet Ventures Senior VP/
Advertising RICH LEFURGY; Turner Interactive Marketing &
Sales Senior VP & GM RICHY GLASSBERG; SportsLine USA Exec VP
MARK MARIANI; InterVU VP/Marketing & Sales DOUG AUGUSTINE;
BBDO, N.Y., Senior VP/Associate Media Dir FRAN LAUFER; Young
& Rubicam New Technologies Senior VP/Group Dir ANTHONY
MANSON; Ogilvy & Mather Manager of Interactive Media JEFF
MINSKY; Internet Profiles Corp. Dir of Marketing & Business
Development TIM REED; MPath VP/Network Programming TOM
GARLAND; Kesmai Corp. President JOHN TAYLOR; The Sporting
News GM JOHN KASTBERG; and Faulkner Strategies Group, Inc.
President GREG FAULKNER. The conference concludes today
(THE DAILY)....Based on a "strong response" to the pilot for
Twentieth Television's "highly touted" talk show hosted by
EARVIN "MAGIC" JOHNSON, "sources said high-level" execs at
Fox are "seriously eyeing" shifting the show from a
syndicated run and using it as a late-night broadcast on the
Fox Network (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 9/17).
