31.   At a local TV station conducting a food and clothing drive, cars lined up for three miles.

32.   At a campus snack bar called Pie Are Squared, students huddled around a TV set to catch around-the-clock coverage by local stations.

33.   At least once a year, count on a local TV station to do an alarmed rip-and-read from health department inspections.

34.   At the beginning of the season, there were four reporters and one local TV station.

35.   At least five local stations are giving away tens of thousands of dollars in cash in a biannual frenzy of seeming generosity.

36.   At their root, the rules say that cable operators generally must devote up to a third of their channel capacity to carrying signals from local broadcast stations.

37.   Backup quarterback Danny Kanell, working for a local TV station, found an empty pocket next to Rams quarterback Kurt Warner.

38.   Because the debates have appeared on a patchwork of local stations and cable, nobody has a clear handle on who has been watching.

39.   Because of changes in FCC regulations, local stations are no longer required to accept ads from nonfederal candidates.

40.   Before that can happen, however, networks and local stations must spend billions of dollars on equipment that will enable them to transmit digital signals.