TV MONITOR: Last night's 11:00pm ET edition of "Fox
Sports News" (Fox Sports South) led with Astros-Cardinals,
followed by Rangers-Red Sox. CNN/SI's "Sports Tonight" led
with Astros-Cardinals, followed by the Stars victory parade
in Dallas. ESPN's "SportsCenter" at 11:30pm ET led with
Astros-Cardinals, followed by Devil Rays-Twins (THE DAILY).
THE STARS WERE BRIGHT: In Dallas, Barry Horn writes
that ESPN pulled a 19.5 Nielsen rating in the Dallas-Ft.
Worth area for Saturday's Stanley Cup Finals Game Six.
During the final quarter-half hour, the rating "was up to a
22.1, which translates into about 433,160 homes." Exactly
50% of TVs in Dallas turned on at the "time of the goal,
were tuned to ESPN." Overall, the three Stanley Cup Finals
on Fox averaged a 25.2 rating in Dallas, while the three
games on ESPN averaged a 16.6 local rating (DALLAS MORNING
NEWS, 6/22). In Baltimore, Milton Kent writes that ESPN
"did its audience a tremendous disservice" by not having a
"meaningful replay" of Brett Hull's controversial goal until
"about 20 minutes after" the game (Baltimore SUN, 6/22).
WOMEN'S WORLD CUP: ABC Sports Dir of PR Mark Mandel, on
Saturday's Women's World Cup scoring a 2.2/6 overnight
Nielsen rating, compared to the U.S. Open's 5.3/15 and MLB's
2.8 on Fox: "For the time being, the ratings this past
weekend are very acceptable and encouraging. You have a
major golf tournament with incredible drama and Tiger
(Woods) and baseball is our national pastime. It's really
unfair to compare the World Cup to those events" (AP/DETROIT
NEWS, 6/22). In Milwaukee, Bob Wolfley writes that the
rating "does not suggest that as a television event soccer
is attracting legions of viewers." Wolfley adds it will "be
interesting to see how much the ratings move up" as the U.S
team continues to advance. Wolfley: "It doesn't figure to
move much" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 6/22).
NOTES: AOL will invest $1.5B in Hughes Electronics
Corp. "to promote satellite delivery of Internet services."
AOL and Hughes "believe satellites will eventually provide
ultrafast Web surfing to millions." Hughes will "invite
AOL's 16 million customers to sign up for satellite TV"
(WALL STREET JOURNAL, 6/22)....GOLF WORLD's Geoff Russell
cites a source as saying that NBC's Dick Enberg is "hoping
NBC will agree to a non-exclusive arrangement that would
allow him to do football for one of the other networks,
while retaining his tennis and golf duties" with NBC (GOLF
WORLD, 6/18 issue)....In Baltimore, Milton Kent writes on
Mike Lupica's and Rick Telander's comments on their interest
in women's sports during Sunday's "The Sports Reporters" on
ESPN (See THE DAILY, 6/21). Kent: "If you don't like women's
sports, that's great. Don't watch them or cover them, but
don't discount the growing number of people who do enjoy
them, because you don't get it" (Baltimore SUN, 6/22).
