41.   Birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, engagements all get air time.

42.   Both clock in at just under two hours of air time.

43.   -- Block attempts to offer incentives like postal subsidies or free and reduced-cost air time to candidates who agree to spending limits.

44.   A company spokesman would not say who paid for the ad but said his company had purchased air time in Florida, Pennsylvania, California, Michigan and Missouri.

45.   A few hosts were in a filibuster mood, dominating air time and letting few callers vent.

46.   A GOP group has started buying air time for TV ads that will be broadcast in the states of Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin, featuring Nader attacking Gore.

47.   A Federal Communications Commission official earlier this week told the Houston Chronicle that if Ryan did run, television stations would have to give his opponents free air time.

48.   A move by Senator John McCain, R-Arizona, to require free air time is stalled in the Senate.

49.   --A requirement that broadcast licensees in each state give two hours worth of free air time to candidates in each state.

50.   ABC and CBS each devoted more than twice as much air time as NBC to the former Yugoslavia and the introduction of U.S. forces in Bosnia.