1.   Nationalist politics often favor local companies over outside media giants, skewing competition for new licenses.

2.   The media giant decided to compact all of its far-flung operations onto a single site.

3.   And BMG Entertainment, a unit of Bertelsmann, the German media giant, is said to be watching the situation with renewed interest.

4.   And soon afterward, a less heroic struggle got under way involving the open checkbooks and bare knuckles of Australian television networks and the media giants behind them.

5.   And media giants like Walt Disney and NBC are snapping up online ventures.

6.   And now, another media giant, Walt Disney is reportedly considering different strategies that would allow its Internet investments to fetch sky-high Net valuations.

7.   AOL Time Warner is hardly alone among the media giants in trying to position itself for a digital tomorrow.

8.   As Internet commerce grows, competition promises to get more brutal from media giants like Walt Disney and NBC.

9.   As a longtime entertainment district, Times Square was a logical location for media giants like Reuters and Viacom.

10.   At least one media giant, Disney, contends that content is most valuable when it can be shopped to a variety of distributors.