91.   The new license will resemble a credit card but will be distinguishable by colorful images of the Texas flag and Texas seal against a beige background.

92.   The new licenses are likely to cost hundreds of millions of dollars each, even before the companies spend any money to build the systems.

93.   The new licenses are made on the spot at the issuing offices, where a special machine produces a thick plastic card that includes holograms.

94.   The National Association of Broadcasters objects to linking the new licenses to free air-time requirements.

95.   The new license is made of stiff plastic, like a credit card.

96.   The new licenses are the first given by the government in more than a decade.

97.   The new licenses will allow broadcasters to transmit sharper, movie-quality pictures and to squeeze five or six channels in the space where one is aired today.

98.   The new license also could be coded to allow an individual voluntarily to include such information as health records and banking information, he said.

99.   The new Software Assurance license will replace an existing system that had grown too complicated and confusing, he says.

100.   The regulator is in the process of approving new licenses for them.