WE'RE CERTAINLY NOT PERFECT, BUT....: Fox Sports Net
misspelled the last name of Chris Myers in yesterday's USA
Today ad promoting his debut as a "Fox Sports News" anchor.
The copy spelled it "Meyers" (THE DAILY).
FEELING GRAVITY'S PULL: NBC Sports and World Triathlon
Corp. agreed to a new TV deal that will keep the Ironman
Triathlon World Championship on NBC through 2001 (NBC). In
Providence, RI Sports Council Exec Dir John Mousseau spent
yesterday "trying to sell executives" of NBC Sports and
Petersen Companies on bringing the Gravity Games to the
state next September (PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, 12/10).
NOTES: Infinity Broadcasting, the radio unit of CBS,
"proceeded with its planned" IPO, pricing its 140 million
shares at $20.50 each. Valued at $2.87B, the Infinity
offering is the largest media IPO ever (WALL STREET JOURNAL,
12/10)....In Chicago, "The Sports Writers on TV" may end its
run on Fox Sports Chicago "at the end of the month." The
show's contract expires December 31 and the last taping is
scheduled for December 18. Show Owner & Daily Southtown
columnist Bill Gleason: "I very much doubt that we'll be
back on Fox" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 12/10)....St. Paul-based U.S.
Satellite Broadcasting Co. shares "jumped" 38% after
"speculation that it may combine" with DirecTV (ST. PAUL
PIONEER PRESS, 12/10)....In one of Canada's "biggest
newspaper mergers," multi-national printing company
Quebecor's purchase of Sun Media for C$983M "fended off a
hostile bid by arch-rival Torstar." Quebecor publishes the
Winnipeg Sun and other newspapers (TORONTO SUN, 12/10).
...Se Ri Pak has become a Playing Editor for Golf Digest and
will provide monthly instructional tips (Golf Digest).
