1.   Broadcast station licenses and monopoly cable franchises cost their original owners nothing except legal fees.

2.   Competition at TeleCable has always meant winning and keeping the exclusive cable franchises granted by local governments.

3.   The Grand Forks City Council approved a transfer of the cable franchise recently to the partnership, which remains unnamed.

4.   Although such cross-exhibition already exists within limits, the prospect of more channels and other outlets makes movie production seem an even better deal to cable franchises.

5.   Baerlein said they already have been approached by several media outlets interested in operating the cable franchise.

6.   About half its sales so far, though, have come from areas already served by cable franchises.

7.   But he was able to buy only one cable franchise.

8.   But so far no Bay Area cable franchises have logged on.

9.   But Sexton said TV production costs and the task of getting the shows carried on thousands of separate cable franchises convinced CNet to take a different tack.

10.   City Hall has even threatened Time Warner with the loss of its cable franchise unless it accommodates the new Fox News Network.