re espn tell us about it in article r l fc usenet ins cwru edu mac po cwru edu michael a cornell writes the usa today says late this year the question is will hockey be moved to espn permenantly or will it be where they have a game of the week on espn and have a bunch of other games on espn yes and no espn will be launched as early in september cap cities are currently working with cable companies to ensure a good start up base needed for a launch for any brand new cable service the problem espn faces is the tci cablevision connection in the merger of their prime and sportschannel networks prime sportschannel will try to wrestle away nhl from espn in the off season also tci and cablevision have control a large number of cable systems around the country with a total of million subscribers tci cablevision will do their best that espn never gets off the ground successfully and the nhl s value will suddenly skyrocket in this cable war between prime sc and espn nhl is more vital to the survival of a regionalized prime sportschannel since they virtually have no national major league sports contracts and only cover local nhl nba mlb sports teams ppv mark
