With more than a dozen all-news channels on the television dial, the last thing this compact country would seem to need is another one.

Many stations fear that they could be marginalized with insufficient space on a vastly expanded television dial, drowned out by a flood of commercial cable channels.

On Tuesday night, the Rangers could control nothing but the television dial.

And as the television dial grows more crowded, more and more networks are going out of their way to call attention to themselves.

A few clicks of the television dial reveal better story lines almost anywhere else.

Color Visión is channel 9 in the Dominican Republic's television dial.

Other fans sought refuge in the habits of the previous season, turning back the clock, or at least the television dial, to the sports of summer.

Mr. Murdoch, chairman of the company, said that ratings were down across the television dial.

ON Jan. 2 something truly strange will occur on the television dials of South Florida.

Yet, it is not all that easy to vote effectively by turning the television dial, especially when all networks feature much the same fare.