Industry officials say an agreement was reached in markets serving about 95 percent of the nation's 57 million cable households.

The show is one of nine regular series broadcast on the community's station, which is available to 4,000 local cable households.

And with the channel already available in 98 percent of the nation's cable households, there is not much room for growth in that medium.

Fox Family is available in 80.9 million cable households, the eighth most among basic channels.

The new management also adopted a more aggressive policy to reach an increasing number of cable households throughout Europe.

Together, the companies have more than 25 million cable subscribers, or 40 percent of the nation's cable households.

The technology will allow advertisers to select cable households within particular areas that have demographic factors, such as income, in common.

Cable-casting on five channels, it reaches more than 52,000 cable households.

The two companies serve about half of all cable households.

It will reach just 5 million of the 55 million cable households.