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 …
They finally pulled the plug on me. First the cable goons came by and said I hadn’t paid the bill; guilty as charged—I pointed out that there never was anything on cable worth paying for. Then my old college lit professor came by and said I hadn’t read a book since Super Bowl …
I never have been to any of Joe Theismann’s three restaurants in Virginia, but I would imagine a visit goes something like this: After you park your car, Theismann greets you and comments on the abundant parking. After you check your coat, Theismann talks about the coat-check area. After you are …
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“I don’t think we’ll see pay-per-view, at least while I’m the commissioner, unless I stay 30 years like Pete Rozelle, which I don’t think I’ll do.” — Paul Tagliabue on ABC Monday night. Sooner or later—maybe even while Paul Tagliabue is commissioner—the NFL will embrace pay-per-view. It will be …
When Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent had to decide if and when to resume the World Series amid the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake, a lot of folks whispered: Well, what’s best for television? In the cynical, big-moneyed worlds of professional sports and network TV, it seemed a logical question. …
“Well, folks, that’s the greatest open in the history of television, bar none… We’re still here. We are still, as [far as] we can tell, on the air and I guess you are hearing us even though we have no picture and no return audio. And we will be back, we hope, from …
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Gerald Riggs fumbled a bit past 4:15 EDT Sunday. Through the magic of television, he fumbled again on CBS at 4:17, twice at 4:18 and at 4:19. Later that evening, he kept fumbling, nearly two dozen times on Channels 4, 5, 7 and 9. He fumbled on all of the Baltimore news stations, …
Major League Baseball broadcast rights holders, meeting here yesterday to discuss the movement of games from free to cable TV, will seek the elimination of broadcasting restrictions on Wednesday and Sunday nights in ESPN’s four-year contract with baseball to begin in 1990. John Serrao, chairman of the board for the Association …
Baseball’s storied “Game of the Week” is dead after Saturday. It will not be missed. Baseball’s “Game of the Night” begins in 1990 on ESPN. It will be a can’t-miss hit. For the past 33 years, the “Game of the Week” has been a Saturday afternoon fixture on network …
