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          NFL: The NFL has entered into a two-year deal with Pay
     Per View Japan, the PPV service on SKY PerfecTV!, which will
     provide Japanese viewers with a selection of up to seven
     live games each week during the '98 and '99 seasons.  It
     marks the first time a package of live NFL games will be
     available digitally in Asia.  Games will be available with
     the original U.S. as well as Japanese commentary (NFL).  NFL
     Sunday Ticket debuted its stand-alone Web site at NFLsunday
     ticket.com.  The site, which is linked to NFL.com, offers
     schedule listings and subscription information (NFL).
          CNBC ON SPORTS TONIGHT: CNBC's "Business Center" will
     examine pro sports tonight at 7:00pm ET, as Don Dahler leads
     a report titled "Professional Sports: Bang or Bust" (CNBC). 
          NOTES: In Philadelphia, a discrimination suit
     threatened by dismissed WIP-AM radio host Coz Carson is "on
     hold."  Carson's attorney said he hasn't been officially
     informed that Carson has been terminated (PHILADELPHIA DAILY
     NEWS, 7/30)....Paul Allen paid $4.4B in cash to acquire
     Charter Communications, the 12th largest cable operator in
     the U.S.  Allen's advisor Michael Yagemann said that the
     merger of Charter with Allen's Marcus Cable will create the
     seventh-largest operator in the U.S., with a total
     subscriber count of 2.4 million (DAILY VARIETY, 7/30)....In
     N.Y., Jon Elsen reports that talks between NBC, USA Networks
     and Seagram's Universal Studios "were terminated Tuesday,
     after the execs tried to work out a deal that this time,
     would directly involve Universal" (N.Y. POST, 7/30).
     

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