91.   Other regional news channels, particularly Chicagoland Television, owned by The Tribune Co., offer consulting services.

92.   Primedia already owns video properties like Channel One, the television news channel provided on video to high schools around the country.

93.   Regular bulletins from the AP, raw live reports on the news channels, a sudden flurry of phone interviews with retired pilots and FAA officials and transportation experts.

94.   Roger E. Ailes, the Fox News Channel chief executive, has agreed to stay with the cable news channel for three years.

95.   Several cable executives said news channels like CNN and CNBC tend to rank low in surveys of viewers.

96.   Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox and its parent, News Corp., has said that his company will also try to start a news channel.

97.   Several professors thought that for many students, the all-sports channel had become the only news channel.

98.   Slowly but surely, though, cable news channels are clamoring their way into more favorable positions on the dial.

99.   Still, Arledge said that Disney executives, including its chairman, Michael Eisner, had been supportive of the news channel.

100.   Still, CBS executives initiated the contact with Fox about the news channel, suggesting to Murdoch that CBS could provide the news infrastructure for the new channel.