OFF topic, but I don't really think that is true. From what I understand, there are only a certain number of people that are actually tracked by Nielsen and they have boxes on their TVs so Nielson can track what they are watching or they have to record their viewing habits in a diary. This number of people is supposedly a good representation of the actual population which is how it works. Check out http://www.nielsenmedia.com/index.html for more information. From the website, I think there are about 26,000 households that have meters and 1.6 million diaries. Matt On Sat, 12 May 2001 02:37:40 -0400 plasma.man@xxxxxxxx writes: >What do you > think about the nielsen ratings? They track what you watch without > your > knowledge. To unsubscribe, send a message to listar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe juno_accmail" in the body or subject. OR visit http://freelists.dhs.org ~*~