The New York Times, for example, used that program when it sold a cable property last year.

The company was considering selling a lot of the cable properties to raise cash.

Q. Why would Comcast want to spend that much for the cable properties?

He said the bidders had less interest in the cable properties, which have more than 300,000 subscribers, and the entertainment group.

CBS did not have any cable properties on which to show baseball.

Between its telephone and cable properties, its networks could reach 42 percent of all homes in the country.

We found cable properties and they raised money through limited partnerships.

But the company's cable properties are extremely valuable, this person said.

Mannesmann had wanted to bid on several cable properties, but was turned down flat.

The move by Motorola comes as the world of media, telecommunications and cable properties is being redrawn.