RE Mark Bahlin's request for info on who has replaced ACNeilsen for Australian TV ratings - AGB Italia won the contract which commences 1Jan 2001 for 7 years - you can find references to news articles via LexisNexis. In your research you may encounter confusion because AGB McNair (an Australian company) has recently merged with ACNeilsen. The two AGB companies are separate entities. AGB Italia do not currently have a presence in Australia and I've been unable to get a URL for them in Italy. Here is a URL for an article that appeared during the bidding process, before AGB Italia had secured it. http://theage.com.au/daily/980707/bus/bus17.html Karen Orr Vered, PhD Lecturer Screen Studies Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 South Australia voice 61 8 8201 3198 fax 61 8 8201 3635 [log in to unmask] ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]