The "Battle of the Sexes" will be back on TV. The tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs will be shown by the Tennis Channel at 8 p.m. on Saturday, September 20--the 30th anniversary of the exhibition at the Houston Astrodome. The cable channel, which launched in May and is available in about 3 million homes, also will air a 90-minute original production, Billie Jean vs. Bobby, at 10:30 p.m. that night. It includes a never-seen interview with Riggs from shortly before he died in 1995. Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford were among the commentators on the "Battle of the Sexes" broadcast, seen by an estimated TV audience of 50 million. King beat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3.
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