1.   And control of Home Shopping will give Diller money to buy additional programming.

2.   Currently, the networks are required to buy their programming from outside companies.

3.   He bought original programming and vastly expanded the number of shows.

4.   On a more immediate basis, the most important of those is that Time Warner Cable and the Newhouse systems will continue to buy programming together.

5.   They build a huge distribution network, and then buy the programming.

6.   Commission officials questioned the companies directly about whether their stakes in different entities that sell and buy cable programming from each other would pose any conflicts of interest.