1.   But Empire Sports Network, a cable outfit, will televise the game.

2.   Even the cable outfit, Showtime, was rebuffed by Tyson for an interview, though Showtime has put up millions for the rights to show the fight.

3.   Folks at the cable outfit worked long, but apparently not too hard, to concoct this list.

4.   More telephone companies will be after cable-TV businesses, for instance, and Time Warner and other cable outfits want to be your phone company.

5.   Similarly, a handful of partnerships have been formed between Baby Bells and wireless telephone companies, cable outfits and long distance carriers.

6.   Another possible outcome is for the broadband unit to be bought by a smaller cable outfit.