51.   Bell Atlantic still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission on a market-by-market basis to alter its cable systems to carry video signals.

52.   Besides having no cable systems, Disney has relatively little debt, another problem hampering Time Warner.

53.   Both are far superior to any cable system.

54.   -- A long battle with the cable industry over compensation for the right to include CBS stations on local cable systems.

55.   -- A friend called to say that with his cable system, that was the clearest TV picture he had all year for a football game.

56.   A cable system, like a network, can pick and choose what it wants to carry.

57.   A bigger priority now is for the AOL online service to get access to cable systems, he said.

58.   A company now will be able to own a TV station and a cable system in the same city.

59.   A cable system without, say, the local ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates runs a major risk of losing subscribers.

60.   A key difference is in the more sophisticated technology, which inserts local commercials on time and automatically and across several cable systems at once.