
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 13, 1990                   TAG: 9003133107
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: JACK BOGACZYK TV/RADIO SPORTS COLUMNIST
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

CAVS' GAME AGAINST IRISH ON WDBJ

WDBJ (Channel 7) will televise the Virginia-Notre Dame basketball game from the Richmond Coliseum on Friday night, creating an NCAA Tournament first-round doubleheader for viewers.

The Roanoke station will air the UVa game at 9:30 p.m. after agreeing Monday to purchase the rights from NCAA Productions. Cable's ESPN announced Sunday night that it also would televise the Cavaliers' Southeast Regional first-round game.

According to NCAA Tournament telecast guidelines, ESPN will not be blacked out locally, although WDBJ also will show the game.

After the conclusion of the Virginia-Notre Dame game, WDBJ will pick up the live coverage of the Loyola Marymount-New Mexico State game from CBS Sports. That game will tip off at 11:37 p.m.

To accommodate the UVa telecast, Channel 7 will move its late Friday newscast to 9 p.m. Program director Kay Hall said the station hopes to schedule tape-delay airings of "Dallas" and "Falcon Crest," which will be pre-empted by the early newscast and the UVa game.

The Cavaliers' first-round game will be broadcast by Capitol Network Sports on UVa's regular radio outlets, including Roanoke's WROV (1240 AM). Air time for the pregame shows is 9 p.m.

If Virginia wins, the Cavaliers will play their second-round game Sunday at 2:20 p.m., the opener of the Richmond Coliseum twinbill, against the Syracuse-Coppin State winner. CBS will feed that game into the Roanoke-Lynchburg market.

ESPN's 11 years of NCAA Tournament coverage will end with the completion of the first round. CBS has second-round coverage in a four-game Saturday and a Sunday tripleheader. The eight games scheduled in the tournament on each of those days are aired primarily in regional telecasts.

ESPN will televise two of Wednesday night's three first-round National Invitation Tournament games, but it didn't choose James Madison's opener in Harrisonburg against New Orleans. ESPN will televise Marquette-Penn State at 7:30, followed by Tennessee-Memphis State at 9:30.

An ESPN spokesman said the network's nine tape-delay NCAA Tournament games early Friday and early Saturday will be announced today.

ESPN and CBS also will do live cut-ins to other games, particularly tight finishes.

by CNB