41.   Broadcasters are battling efforts to place specific, hard-and-fast, community service responsibilities on them as they begin offering new digital TV signals next year.

42.   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.

43.   Broadcasters are considering when and how to meet a government mandate to begin transmitting digital signals within the next several years.

44.   Broadcasters, particularly smaller ones, see little or no financial benefit yet in offering digital signals.

45.   But Barry thinks the overlooked issue is the potential for the high-powered digital signal to carry extra TV channels or data services.

46.   But analog sets will have to be capable of receiving digital signals.

47.   But some digital signals transmit at higher frequencies than analog signals and are more susceptible to energy loss as they travel between points.

48.   But the Japanese said Monday that they intended to use a different system for transmitting the digital signal than will be used in the United States.

49.   But the biggest and most disruptive controversy is a growing debate over the adequacy of the transmission format for broadcasting digital signals.

50.   C-Cube makes chips that translate digital video signals from satellite broadcast into television images.