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Across The Media Universe: Keystrokes And He's Out Edition

By Brian Montopoli

June 11, 2007 / 4:10 PM EDT / CBS News

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Foul Ball: Blogging a baseball game, it turns out, can get you kicked out of the press box. By the NCAA's logic you're providing a "live representation of the game," as a Courier-Journal sports reporter learned when he got the boot at a University of Louisville/ Oklahoma State contest. Says Courier-Journal attorney Jon Fleischaker: "Once a player hits a home run, that's a fact. It's on TV. Everybody sees it. (The NCAA) can't copyright that fact. The blog wasn't a simulcast or a recreation of the game. It was an analysis."

Hartman Goes To Beeb: Former "Evening News" Executive Producer Rome Hartman was supposed to take another job with CBS News after he was moved off the show in March. Instead he's heading over to the BBC to launch a new broadcast in America. "CBS and the other networks have very talented correspondents overseas," he tells Howard Kurtz. "But there's no way any American broadcast network can or will cover the world the way BBC does. They just don't have the capacity. It's a frustration for people at every network." Speaking of the "Evening News," Broadcasting and Cable notes that CBS is launching an "aggressive promotional campaign" this summer to pump up the show's ratings.

Reasons To Be Depressed: "More people agree that Bill O'Reilly is a better source of political information than ABC News, according to a JWT survey conducted on behalf of Adweek." There are those who hated the Soprano's finale. And we're now into our second week of this.