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From: [email protected] (Michael A. Cornell)
Subject: Re: ESPN2 - Tell us about it
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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Reply-To: [email protected] (Michael A. Cornell)
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In a previous article, [email protected] (Tom Huot) says:
>Geoff Filinuk ([email protected]) wrote:
>
>: This comes indirectly from Al Morgani who works in the studio
>: for ESPN hockey.
>[Some text deleted]
>: ESPN is under contractual obligation to show baseball and COULD NOT
>: broadcast the OT of the hockey game. Next year, ESPN2 will be introduced so
>: baseball fans can watch baseball and hockey fans can watch hockey.
>
>I hadn't heard about this new ESPN2. When is this new network
>supposed to start? Sounds great to me! (as long as my cable co.
>offers it)
The USA Today says "late this year". The question is, will hockey be moved to
ESPN2 permenantly, or will it be where they have a game of the week on
ESPN, and have a bunch of other games on ESPN2?
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