Sports Television: Spice Rack
NFL
Network, says spokesman Dennis Johnson, will formally announce today that it
will add Daryl "Moose" Johnston as a studio analyst. The ex-Dallas
Cowboy will continue to be a Fox NFL game analyst. ... The Weather Channel,
using various historical weather data, projects the 10 hottest NFL team
training camps; the Houston Texans top the list. Of those 10 teams, one —
the New Orleans Saints— made last season's playoffs. ... To primp
before its TV deals expire next year, the Pacific-10 is on its first East
Coast news media tour. All of the league's football coaches will be at ESPN
today for an assembly line of on-air and online appearances. ... Ratings
aren't always the whole story: Joyce
Julius & Associates, which measures sponsor exposure on TV sports,
says sponsors averaged 18 minutes more onscreen time per broadcast hour on
TNT's NASCAR races than on Fox's.