Players’ Salaries Could Average $1 Million NBC Sports agreed yesterday on a four-year, $600 million contract to televise NBA games beginning next season, snatching the package from longtime carrier CBS and continuing the recent vast escalation in sports rights fees. The $150-million-a-year price tag marks about a 340 percent increase over …
You’re sitting in a Hilton, Sheraton or Westin in Los Angeles, Chicago or Washington. You’re exhausted, and there’s nothing on the TV. So you decide to take the pay-TV plunge: For $5.95, your choices are “No Way Out,” a soft-porn flick, or… the Denver Nuggets. Welcome to the brave new world of ordering the NBA …
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Out on the court, the principals would be Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin. And over in the WTTG-TV-5 broadcasting both, Rich Chvotkin and Bernie Smilovitz. Rich Chvotkin and Bernie Smilovitz? Certainly one of the broadcasting’s most bizarre combos, if in name only. (Better they be broadcasters than partners in a law …
Thompson finally blows his whistle and calls out, “Freddie, get over here!” He rests his hands on the player’s shoulders as he berates him gently, consoles him and then, with a gentle pat on the rear, sends the player back onto the court. Is it John Thompson the coach, or is …
Fortunately, if not surprisingly, ABC and ESPN are refusing to participate directly in the USFL’s reactionary future vision. “Our policy remains the same: we will provide a line feed into the press box as we always have. Nothing more,” said Scotty Connal, ESPN’s executive vice president. “we’re there to televise the …
