71. After spending lavishly to cobble together cable systems, it abandoned the strategy and is breaking up into four smaller companies. 72. Ailes said Murdoch had acted after Time Warner, last month, irresponsibly and suddenly backed out of a crucial deal to put the channel on its cable systems. 73. Bresnan operates cable systems in northwest Poland as well as a fiber optic network in Warsaw. 74. Broadcast stations have rarely been pulled off cable systems. 75. Both companies agree that it would be best to avoid splitting up the cable systems, the executives said. 76. Broadcast stations have the right to seek compensation from cable systems for the right to retransmit their signals on cable channels. 77. Brazil has been passing laws to allow the expansion of its cable system and U.S. pay TV channels are cranking out Portuguese feeds to the nation. 78. Broadcom, which makes chips for cable systems, said it too had seen a slowdown in canceled orders. 79. But another factor was that the two companies could not agree on the value of the cable systems owned by the venture. 80. But because wireless cable does not have interactive capabilities, Tele-TV in many ways is a plain, old cable system. |