Word: espn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...programming. Syndicated reruns of such current network hits as Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey and Murder, She Wrote have been sold to cable rather than broadcast stations, as would have been the case five or ten years ago. Cable has also been on the offensive in the sports arena. ESPN last year brought National Football League games to cable for the first time, buying a package of 39 contests over three years. ESPN's eight regular-season NFL telecasts last fall garnered the all-sports network its highest ratings ever. Ted Turner is negotiating with NBC to pick up a selection...
...power failure also resulted in the loss of TV coverage by ESPN...
...this year's NCAA Championship game against eventual champion Lake Superior State and plays all the Ivy teams in ECAC competition, recalls his team's Final Four game with Minnesota this year. Marsh calls the Saints' 3-2 overtime victory "the best college hockey game I ever saw," but ESPN, the cable sports network that had the rights to televise the game, decided instead to telecast the NCAA women's basketball semifinals...
...ESPN will televise a total of 19 games during the next three seasons. Trans World International (TWI) will produce the telecasts in association with ESPN...
...past four years, TWI has produced the Ivy League Game of the Week, which has been carried by PBS stations nation-wide. At least six games will be televised by ESPN during the 1988 season, with kickoff times scheduled for early afternoon, generally...