31.   That puts direct broadcast satellite companies at a competitive disadvantage, DBS companies say.

32.   That limit would have to be waived if the British Telecom-MCI combination were to use the direct broadcast satellite license.

33.   The agency is writing rules to define what public interest obligations direct broadcast satellite companies should provide.

34.   The Federal Communications Commission hopes to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars for the U.S. Treasury with the sale of two direct broadcast satellite service licenses next week.

35.   The Federal Communications Commission will auction its sole remaining direct broadcast satellite license, one that Tele-Communications Inc. staked claim to more than a year ago.

36.   The Federal Communications Commission today denied a request by Nynex Corp. that an auction of licenses to operate direct broadcast satellites be delayed, the company said.

37.   The inventor, John Carles, says his system covers any closed network, like cable television systems, direct broadcast satellite and even the Internet.

38.   The results are another sign that the cable industry is rebounding from a slump last year brought on by investor concern over competition from direct broadcast satellites.

39.   The smaller dishes can receive medium- and high-powered direct broadcast satellite.

40.   There has always been a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., television signals have always been available by direct broadcast satellite.