1.   BBC America will be financed by income from the joint venture, not by the license fees collected from television households that underwrite the broadcaster in Britain.

2.   Each rating point equals one percent of all television households in the United States.

3.   Each rating point equals slightly more than a million television households and the share is the percentage of TV sets in use that are tuned to a particular program.

4.   Percentage of television households around the world with satellite dishes.

5.   Sixty-nine percent of television households in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market now receive their signal via cable.

6.   The rating is the percentage of television households watching a broadcast.