1.   Pre-season David Campese signed a contract with commercial broadcaster Channel Ten.

2.   The public service broadcasters and the commercial broadcasters increasingly have different objectives.

3.   Almost three-quarters of the commercial broadcasters that were supposed to be offering a digital signal by Wednesday will fail to make the deadline.

4.   And the commercial broadcasters are also producing fresh Arab-language programs.

5.   A spokesman for Ashdown said he would make sure commercial broadcasters were not undermined by the law, and added that he believed in a stronger regulatory agency.

6.   BROADCASTERS TO MISS DEADLINE Almost three-quarters of the commercial broadcasters that were supposed to be offering a digital signal by Wednesday will fail to make the deadline.

7.   But the commercial broadcasters, joined by National Public Radio, prevailed on Congress to cut the program after raising concerns that the start-ups would produce significant signal interference.

8.   By waving campaign contributions and a hyped-up foreign threat, the commercial broadcasters got their HDTV spectrum free while the cellular telephone companies had to bid for theirs.

9.   Commercial broadcasters are adamantly opposed to the whole idea, and some have threatened to challenge the law in court.