1.   And consider the fledgling interactive television programming company Da Vinci Time and Space.

2.   As for Malone, he has generally preferred to hold stakes in programming companies that were managed by others.

3.   A coalition of cable distributors and programming companies, led by Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc., say the requirement violates their First Amendment free-speech rights.

4.   A major beneficiary of these deals is BNP Partners, the programming company recently set up by Bell Atlantic, Nynex and Pacific Telesis.

5.   But a small Bay State programming company says it has the solution.

6.   But programming companies on their own are generally valued more highly than a more diversified operation, Gerbrandt said.

7.   But with Americast losing its role as a programming company, Weiswasser would seem to have little incentive to stay with the venture.

8.   Court TV is owned equally by Time Warner, NBC and Liberty Media, a cable programming company.

9.   Federal Communications Commission rules will require any Bell company to set up a programming company separate from its telephone services organization in providing video this way.

10.   Hatch said Liberty also had stakes in private cable programming companies like Discovery Communications, owner of the Discovery, Learning and other cable TV channels.