31.   Some industry officials say that if the FCC rejects the system devised by the networks, broadcasters will have stronger grounds for challenging the constitutionality of the new law.

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

33.   Such quirky, localized terms can gain greater notoriety if the hometown broadcaster has the chance to call games nationally.

34.   That is largely because satellite broadcasters would have to knock four or five conventional channels off the air to offer one HDTV program.

35.   The broadcasters have a long legislative agenda.

36.   The broadcasters have the stronger claim to the wavelengths in question.

37.   The broadcasters have a point.

38.   The broadcasters may have the better of the argument.

39.   The government will be deciding whether broadcasters will have to pay for that additional spectrum space and, if so, how.

40.   The warning is well taken, but might be better received if broadcasters had a more impressive record of serving children instead of exploiting them.