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To: Skip Jack who wrote (4380)	6/1/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: Mike Fredericks	Read Replies (3) of 13157

Two larger deals include the TV Games Networks (interactive horse racing in Kentucky), and interactive TV Guide (a joint venture with Murdoch's News Corp). I know that the TV Guide deal has been publicized by IATV. Question - has the Horse Racing stuff ever been publicly linked with IATV? I will certainly grant that it is a reasonable inference that IATV is somehow connected with this, but I want to know if it has ever been publicized by IATV or anyone else. I went to Goto.Com and searched for "TV Games Networks" in quotations (small plug - actually I went to my own mini portal at holymarket.com and did the goto search and made two whole cents in the process... 49,999,982 more searches until I'm a millionaire... before taxes). Anyway, the only result that came up was youbet.com . Now, I happened to become familiarized with youbet.com this past weekend as my father-in-law enlisted my help in ordering their software and setting up the account. I read many press releases at their site and searched for news under their stock symbol (UBET) and read their most recent quarterly report and saw no mention of Liberty. This is both good and bad. Good: Youbet clearly does not use IATV and if this were Liberty's project then we would be out of luck. Bad: Youbet is a competitor for Liberty's offering. However after looking at it, I believe Liberty's offering will be better because UBET is limited to streaming video of a horse race which looks crappy over 56k, and when it's on television it will look much smoother. Of course, youbet will probably look better on ADSL or a Cable Modem. So anyway, I haven't found any information linking IATV to TV Games Networks, and I would be most happy if anyone could provide it for me. Gambling may be a vice but it's a very profitable one and I think that IATV could make a pretty penny if they get any form of commissions off of the racing channel. -Mike

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