1.   Young, which provides local stations information on progress in ad sales, said they could not reveal studies done for clients.

2.   And more employees will be hired for the department that handles duties including ad sales.

3.   Another service, Infoseek Network, will coordinate Web sites wishing to participate in bulk ad sales.

4.   As the service began to compete with its partners for ad sales, it began, not surprisingly, to give more prominence to the material it developed.

5.   As to whether Carey can save money and increase ad sales, a large part of the job has already been done for him.

6.   Both media and Internet stocks have been hard hit as investors worry that economic uncertainties, particularly the dot-com downturn, could hurt ad sales.

7.   Ad sales help keep subscription prices down and subsidize free magazines.

8.   Ad sales are also up.

9.   Ad sales are cyclical in nature and are affected by economic forces, but one of them is the rising tide of Internet-based services.

10.   Ad sales have slowed, to the degree that Fox still has ad inventory left for its Super Bowl telecast in February.