1.   Although they are not represented at the bargaining table, the network affiliates would certainly prefer to avoid a strike.

2.   As television creeps into the digital age, network affiliates could begin examining new business models that draw revenue from sources other than advertising.

3.   Broadcast network affiliates did the same routine.

4.   Cable network affiliates such as MSNBC for NBC, have now taken their place.

5.   During the past decade, basic cable networks have dramatically eroded the viewing share of broadcast network affiliates.

6.   Group W owns five major market television network affiliates in San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Philadelphia.

7.   Group W owns five network affiliates in San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Philadelphia.

8.   He said that News Corp. had reassured them that it would not favor its own Fox network stations over other network affiliates.

9.   He is taking a job as news director at WFTS-TV in Tampa, a UHF station primed to become an ABC network affiliate.

10.   He will be in San Diego next week to file television reports for a network affiliate in Denver.