The networks each pay $5 million a year to Nielsen, which is owned by the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation.

Her father retired as an executive vice president and board member of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in New York.

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, the business information, publishing and marketing services company, said yesterday that its net income rose 15 percent in the first quarter.

Her father is chairman of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in New York.

Business failures increased by 53.3 percent in the first quarter, the biggest rise in seven years, the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation reported yesterday.

"With the pending split-up and reconstitution of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, it was an appropriate time to effect the change."

She is the director of planning and acquistions at the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in New York.

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation reported today that its first-quarter earnings fell 23 percent partly because of declines in two units.

Gartner went public for the second time in October 1993, with the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation holding onto a 50 percent stake.

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation listed a record 770,206 new incorporations last year, up 19 percent from from 647,366 in 1990.