ON THE AIR Monday Night Football specials to fill airwaves There will be lots of special programming and events surrounding the Giants-Eagles game Monday night on ABC. By LAURA NACHMAN There will be lots of special programming and events surrounding the Giants-Eagles game Monday night on ABC. After Action News' postgame broadcast, WPVI will air "Eagles Total Access with Gary Papa." Phil Andrews and Freddie Mitchell (who gets more airtime than playing time) co-star. WPVI also will host a pep rally at City Hall at noon with Monday Night Football announcers Al Michaels and John Madden and sideline reporter Melissa Stark. WYSP 94.1 FM's pregame show with Jody McDonald, Johnny Sample and Tom Cardella will start at 7 p.m. Here's something that bugs me about the WYSP broadcast: Even though it is a rock station (though less and less these days), that doesn't mean it has to play loud background music throughout the pregame show. Last week I could barely hear Merrill Reese and Mike Quick minutes before the game. Instead, I've had the Green Day song "When I Come Around" in my head all week. Angelo Cataldi will be doing double duty. He'll be hosting the WIP 610-AM tent show with Rhea Hughes, Howard Eskin and hobbled Eagle Hollis Thomas from the Veterans Stadium parking lot. The show also will be broadcast on Comcast SportsNet as part of "The Angelo Cataldi Show" at 7 p.m. The "Eagles Post Game Live" crew also will do an Eagles special before the game at 8 p.m. WYSP and WIP also will ave postgame shows.Eagles defensive back Troy Vincent, a 1988 Pennsbury High School graduate, will be featured on "Monday Night Countdown" on ESPN between 8:30 and 9 p.m. ESPN's Suzy Kolber interviews Vincent at Trenton High School, where he sponsors the girls basketball team and also founded "Troy Vincent Women's Athletics." Open Mike shut off for good This time it's for real. Mike Missanelli will not continue as WPHL's weekday sports anchor. His last scheduled day will be Dec. 2. In August, WPHL general manager Leslie Glenn announced that Missanelli's contract would not be renewed, mostly because he couldn't get to the station until after 7 p.m. when his WIP radio shift ended. However, when his shift was changed to 10 a.m.-3 p.m., WPHL opened up talks again. But, after several weeks of negotiations, things fell apart this week. "I like Leslie and I'll always appreciate the opportunity she gave me., but I think she has a faulty perception of what constitutes negotiations," Missanelli said. "First, she basically terminated me. Then, she came back to me but offered me the same salary. " Then we agreed on a raise she called 'reasonable.' Then she reneged on that and offered me my old salary again. And then, she gave me a salary number and demanded an immediate answer. All I wanted was a few extra days to consider it and she was unwilling to give me that." Glenn could not be reached for comment, but in a prepared statement said: "Mike has played an important role in the growth of Philadelphia's WB17 News. His enthusiasm and knowledge of the Philadelphia sports scene has been an asset to the newscast, and we wish him well." Ironically, the Missanelli-hosted "Sports Extra" this week had one of its best showings - beating WCAU and KYW in the Sunday night sports show wars. The Bristol native will continue on WIP and said he has received inquiries from other television stations. WPHL, which hasn't hired a full-time weekend sports anchor since Jenna Wolfe left in April, said it will have a replacement for Missanelli in a few weeks. HBO notes Looks like Cris Carter took the name of his HBO show "Inside the NFL" literally, as the first-year announcer will be joining the Miami Dolphins for the remainder of the season. However, HBO is forcing Carter to honor his contract, so he'll become the first active player to simultaneously work on a national show. There won't be another person added to the lineup of Bob Costas, Dan Marino, Cris Collinsworth and funny Wanda Sykes. Jim Lampley signed a multi-year deal to continue on HBO. Lampley is best known for his terrific job on HBO boxing. A former NFL player comes out on "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" Tuesday at 10 p.m. There's one less sports agent in the world, as HBO canceled "Arli$$." Mike Tollin of Havertown created the series that somehow lasted seven seasons. The new guy Besides the new ESPN affiliate on 920-AM, there's another new sports radio option. "The Joe DeCamara Show" airs on WBCB 1490-AM Monday and Thursday nights from 10 p.m. to midnight. After two years in the "real world," DeCamara, 24, quit his high-powered job in New York City to go for it in the world of broadcasting. DeCamara is a graduate of St. Joseph's Prep and Fairfield University. Laura Nachman covers television and radio sports for the Courier Times. She can be reached at [email protected]. October 25, 2002