11.   If broadcast licenses are sold at auction, public interest obligations could be explicitly written into the license contract, the officials said.

12.   It parcels out billions of dollars worth of broadcast licenses.

13.   It hopes to begin auction new broadcast licenses a year from now.

14.   It hopes to begin auctioning new broadcast licenses a year from now.

15.   It would also let others who have recently petitioned the government for a change in the rules to seek broadcast licenses.

16.   It parcels out billions of dollars worth of broadcast licenses, defining the terms of competition for television, radio, satellites and phone service.

17.   Journalists here note, though, that the new ministry will have potentially sweeping powers to revoke broadcast licenses and even to pressure newspapers.

18.   McCain twice demanded late last month that the FCC vote on two obscure broadcast license transfers after meeting with executives and lobbyists who sought the licenses.

19.   Metro Broadcasting upheld a minority preference in the awarding of broadcast licenses.

20.   Stations that met those requirements would get automatic renewal of their broadcast licenses.