CLEVELAND -- A TV station su the Cl...

CLEVELAND -- A TV station su the Cleveland Brown onward Tuesday after the team said it would break the station's contract to broadcast preseason games and other programming. The Brown are tip over because the station aired a 911 call involving the team owner's relatives.

WOIO-TV aired the call placed on owner Randy Lerner's sister, Nancy Fisher, after she build her 6-year-old daughter drowned in a inlet on family property July 9 Recordings of 911 calls are public records and are routinely made available to the media. single in kind of the city's three other TV stations also aired a portion of the recording.

Brown vice president Michael Keenan sent a literal meaning to Bill Applegate, WOIO's vice president and general manager, forward July 13 informing him the team was terminating the contract, citing what he called irresponsible journalism. WOIO, a CB affiliate, is seeking to detain the contract and to amass damages exceeding $25,000.

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