1.   Before coming to Prodigy, he was developing programming ventures for television producer Norman Lear.

2.   In July, Comcast along with Cox Communications Inc. invested in a cable programming venture started by Times Mirror Co.

3.   Kavner is a consultant involved with Tele-TV, the programming venture of Pacific Telesis, Nynex and Bell Atlantic.

4.   Now PacTel must review its alliance with TeleTV, its television programming venture, because SBC is aligned with rival Disney and other Baby Bells.

5.   Tele-TV is not the only Bell programming venture with more ambitions than customers.

6.   The companies have merged their cellular properties, and they are partners with Pacific Telesis in a television programming venture, Tele-TV.

7.   The ruling gives fresh momentum to a programming venture that Bell Atlantic formed with Nynex and Pacific Telesis.

8.   The two also recently started a video programming venture, along with Pacific Telesis, which aims to deliver television shows over telephone wires.

9.   The two companies have a long history of working together through the Rainbow programming venture, including networks such as Bravo and American Movie Classics.

10.   Three other Bells -- Ameritech, BellSouth and SBC Communications -- have already agreed to form a television programming venture with Walt Disney Co.