51.   Broadcasters have no direct stake in auctions because they have already muscled the right to free spectrum for long-awaited high-definition digital television service.

52.   BSkyB faces increased competition in the next few years from the introduction of digital terrestrial television channels.

53.   BSkyB will still be in the digital television business.

54.   But broadcasters are learning this so-called gift, awarded by federal regulators to promote digital television, or HDTV as it is popularly known, is anything but free.

55.   But digital television has gotten off to something of a rocky start in the United States.

56.   But digital television receivers also hold the potential to enrich the medium with user interaction of the sort now available on computers.

57.   But all is not yet lost, said Rick Chessen, chairman of a Federal Communications Commission task force overseeing the conversion to digital television.

58.   But for the rest, the problems above do not apply to the direct transmission of digital television signals.

59.   But for several years after that, European broadcasters showed no interest in digital television.

60.   But many experts say that auctions could easily kill digital television because many licenses would fall to companies with plans for services that have nothing to do with television.