51.   TNT, the top-rated basic cable network in prime time, also benefited from strong ratings for the National Basketball League playoffs.

52.   This would allow people to watch movies at their leisure as part of a basic cable package.

53.   To see those stations, a viewer can use rabbit ears or another antenna or buy the least expensive basic cable package.

54.   Two of the top three shows on basic cable are wrestling shows.

55.   Unlike broadcast networks, which rely solely on advertising for their revenues, so-called basic cable channels like E!

56.   USA competes for advertisers against such Time Warner basic cable channels Cable News Network, Court TV and TNT,

57.   Will Cablevision, for example, place it on a premium tier, making it more expensive and less accessible than on basic cable?

58.   Yet basic cable channels are not completely advertiser supported, because some revenue comes from affiliate cable subscriptions.

59.   Yet the basic cable networks also go unregulated by the Federal Communications Commission, while broadcasters must hew to certain standards of propriety.

60.   And on basic cable, original programming, other than live sportscasts, was almost nonexistent.