1.   At that time, the FCC also rejected a joint pleading from the television networks formally asking the government to require broadcasters to offer high-definition programming.

2.   Compression will let a broadcaster offer four or five channels-worth of programs with the same amount of airwaves used today for one channel.

3.   He said several broadcasters offered him jobs after he resigned from News Corp.

4.   Long resistant to the whole idea of HDTV, Fox executives early this year unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to drop its insistence that broadcasters offer it.

5.   Most people will want to maintain a standard dial-up service to handle e-mail and Web data that the broadcasters do not offer.

6.   Most Bay Area broadcasters are already offering digital signals.

7.   President Bill Clinton called on the Federal Communications Commission to require broadcasters to offer politicians free air time in order to receive licenses for digital airwaves.

8.   Some broadcasters offer decoders capable of filtering out selected material, a feature that is proving popular.

9.   Still another amendment would change a provision that would require TV broadcasters to offer the lowest ad rates to political candidates.

10.   The bill would require broadcasters to offer television time to legitimate candidates without compensation.