1.   But the interview has been heavily criticized by President Fidel Castro, network competitors at NBC and, ABC says, the U.S. Justice Department.

2.   CBS expects its strategy to be dismissed by its network competitors as an effort to abandon hip for hip replacements.

3.   Maybe when the NFL rights are available again, NBC can outbid other network competitors and put O.J. back on the sidelines.

4.   Network competitors fired back at NBC, mostly to assure the creative community that they would still push the envelope.

5.   Pax TV will get minuscule numbers compared with the lowest-rated network competitor.

6.   The action marks the second time in two weeks that Murdoch pre-empted his network competitors by offering services he says the public demands and challenging them to follow suit.