1.   It is estimated that every thirty minutes a major network links into the Internet.

2.   The country has three major network television stations, plus one independent station.

3.   Advertisers have bought airtime on all the major TV networks.

4.   Arrests were also reported of members of a major network of financial corruption involving the falsification of official documents.

5.   Although the arrangement, which involved all the major networks, was not widely known, it was revealed by McCaffrey at a congressional hearing last October.

6.   Also, overall viewership for basic cable pulled even with the three major broadcast networks for the first time in homes that have both cable and broadcast television.

7.   Although the major networks keep reminding viewers that this convention is a prepackaged Republican television show, they are promoting the show anyway.

8.   And are we really supposed to believe a TV station in Seattle would somehow be unaware of a story that has attracted the attention of all the major networks?

9.   And Democrats in Congress took a secondary role, addressing the convention in the early evening, before the major networks began broadcasting the proceedings.