11.   No one can predict what broadcasters will do exactly with their new digital TV licenses.

12.   Robinson said the company will use the funds to finance pending acquisitions of local telephone lines in several Western states and to pursue acquisition of other digital wireless licenses.

13.   Some Republicans on Capitol Hill, notably Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain, want broadcasters to have to buy digital licenses.

14.   Stations could also choose to forgo the new digital license and to keep broadcasting with their current licenses.

15.   Stet has also bid for digital cellular licenses in both Poland and the Czech Republic.

16.   That would insure that digital licenses quickly gravitate toward companies willing to give consumers more advanced television services.

17.   That auction, in turn, would determine the fee broadcasters would pay for digital licenses.

18.   The broadcasters argue that they cannot afford to provide free over-the-air television if they are forced to bid on the digital licenses.

19.   The Clinton administration wants to give the digital licenses to broadcasters and require them to return the analog licenses they use today in about seven years.

20.   The FCC will look at ways broadcasters should serve their communities in exchange for their new digital TV licenses.