To: BigTex who wrote (43 ) 8/26/1999 11:06:00 AM From: Skycat Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 641
Finally!! The missing 'link'!! It has been rumored for some time that there was an ad placed in the April issue of Individual Investor by Fisher Television regarding plans for FHTV. Someone on RB found a back issue and typed the ad out for us. Here it is: By: toomuchtech Reply To: 375 by Stealth_Dude Wednesday, 25 Aug 1999 at 11:36 AM EDT Post # of 430 FHTV has the exclusive right to broadcast direct response and home shopping tv programs into china thru six channels to be delivered via sat to 120 provincial cable operators with a subscr base of approx 180M households. Have 25 cable operators in major cities signed up in major cities. "The program is scheduled to commence in August 1999" William Fisher has 20 yrs experience in home shopping. Spent 15 yrs in Asia merchandising and sourcing for home shopping cable networks in USA and Europe... FHTV has leased facilities in Hong Kong for prod of TV commercials. It has also obtained the first toll free 800 lines in China. Has credit card co lined up. Has operating agrmnt with Ministry of Post to deliver packages either prepaid or on COD basis. Signed agrmnt with CCFT(owned by Ministry of Internal trade), to source and finance all the products manuf in China. At the same time, for imported products from the US and Europe such as Fisher's potential alliance with other major home shipping cable marketing companies in the uS and Europe, CCFT will have the necessary foreign exchange in dollars and import licenses required to finance these programs. CCFT, additionally, has 48 offices world wide to source and import other products into China. CCFT agrmnt provides revenue sharing where FHTV gets "50% of Gross Revenue form Sales." Trial broadcast in Guanzhou yielded in early January sold USD$70,000 in 28 minutes of broadcast time. Another in Shanghai 18 months ago selling exercise equip at $240 per set. In 4 wks, more than 2,000 sets were sold. ($480,000) After successful China launch, expand to all of Asia to incluse Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philipines, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. Focus to establish alliances with local country networks. Asia population yields a projection "that sales volume of Fisher Television will rival that of the major home shopping marketing companies in the United States." tel (212) 308-5361 E-mail ccfcap@aol.com Sorry it took so long, I'm not a typist. toomuchtech