71.   But the cable systems have agreed to carry new cable channels started by the broadcast networks, and to pay the customary fees for any cable-only programming.

72.   But there are few things more pitiful than a paunchy, middle-aged broadcast network trying to look like MTV.

73.   But the major broadcast networks for weeks balked at most of the additional codes, just as they once objected to the original rating system.

74.   But there are now five private Brazilian broadcast networks going up against Globo.

75.   But with the verdict delayed for an hour, the broadcast networks devoted their full attention to the State of the Union.

76.   Buying King World would pave the way for Chairman Ted Turner to take another shot at fulfilling his decades-long quest for a major broadcast network.

77.   But very quickly the three major broadcast networks changed plans and decided to join the all-news cable networks in televising all four hours of testimony.

78.   By dribs, by drabs, by hook and by crook, cable TV channels are luring viewers from the seemingly helpless broadcast networks.

79.   Cable has more creative freedom in general than the broadcast networks, and commercial-free premium channels have the most freedom of all.

80.   By such reckoning, the contrast between the profitability of the cable channels versus the broadcast networks could not be more stark.