71.   Television ratings, video rentals and sales of computer games are all up over last summer.

72.   Still, the trend is a wake-up call for the video rental business.

73.   That is less of a threat to the video rental business, at least to start, than many people expected.

74.   That tax would be levied on everything from video rentals and tickets to sporting events to golf greens fees and health club memberships.

75.   The big money to be made in video rentals and sales is one reason why video releases are increasingly tied to movie releases of similar or rehashed material.

76.   The announcement prompted speculation among some analysts that the company might be considering a spinoff of the struggling video rental operation to get its stock back to former levels.

77.   The companies even share officers, many of whom helped make Blockbuster Video the largest video rental chain.

78.   The delay comes as Viacom Inc. yesterday said second-quarter results at its Blockbuster Entertainment Group unit will be poor because of slow video rentals and rising costs.

79.   The immediate beneficiaries are likely to be cable television channels and video rental chains.

80.   The movie box office jumped on the Saturday night after the attacks, as did the figures for Blockbuster video rentals.