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To: killybegs who wrote (3944)	6/15/2001 2:17:26 PM
From: wlcnyc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4169

"Microsoft Aiming for Enhanced Revenue "Stream"" (Excerpt) "....."We've seen a large demand for streaming video increase over the past year. With these improvements, we are providing truly seamless integration between video and text," said MSNBC.com president and chief executive John Nicol. "We are also delivering a more integrated system for advertisers, and are launching the player with streaming ad buys from major consumer companies." Spokespeople also didn't rule out the possibility that Microsoft is considering using the new media player as the basis for a broadband subscription content area. It's a strategy that players like Yahoo! appear to be perusing through its FinanceVision and ShoppingVision areas (which integrate streaming and static Web content, similarly to the MSNBC Media Player). Currently, MSNBC hosts about 30 clips per day on its site, a number that the company is likely to expand in conjunction with an ambitious syndication plan, in which it licenses its video content to distributors, which place a link to a co-branded MSNBC player on their sites. "Almost half of our users are broadband users, and those are the people who are inclined to watch video," Tillinghast said. "We are looking at subscription concepts, and they may use this player as well. But that's all investigational at this time. But this player is the platform that we would use for a wide variety of advanced products." internetnews.com

To: killybegs who wrote (3944)	6/15/2001 6:55:29 PM
From: Thomas Kirwin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4169

More on Hugh Downs Just a little piece from today's SJ Mer by: pompa1 (46/M/Bay Area) 06/15/01 09:44 am EDT Msg: 107781 of 107841 www0.mercurycenter.com Published Friday, June 15, 2001, in the San Jose Mercury News There's no slowing down Hugh Downs BY NANCY IMPERIALE WELLONS Knight Ridder Hugh Downs is forging new broadcasting frontiers. ``TV had become a little too centrist for me and a little too tabloid-flavored, and the Internet was just beckoning,'' said Downs, who left his co-anchor job on ABC's ``20/20'' two years ago to produce Internet-only broadcasts. His latest specials premiered this week. It figures that the 80-year-old broadcaster would be pushing boundaries. He's had some experience in that area: He helped introduce the country to a brand-new technology called television, appearing in one of the first experimental broadcasts in Illinois in 1945. ``There were less than 400 sets in all of greater Chicago, and most were in bars. So I was broadcasting to a bunch of drunks,'' Downs said by the phone from the New York offices of Ampex Corp., the Internet company producing his shows. ``Conversations With Hugh Downs: Values in America'' began airing this week on iNEXTTV (www.inexttv.com). The show is a series of discussions on sex, ethics, politics and violence with 15 people, including Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, rocker Joan Jett, rabbi Ismar Schorsch and ex-New York Mayor Ed Koch. Several interviews became available in streaming video on Monday. It's not the first Internet venture for Downs. Since leaving ``20/20'' in 1999 after 21 years, he has been producing online commentaries. ``My Take With Hugh Downs'' (also on iNEXTTV) has him opining on everything from tobacco addiction to ``Temptation Island.'' Some of you may be thinking ``Hugh, buddy, you're eight decades old. Relax!'' But you don't even know the half of it. Mr. Won't-Slow-Downs lectures at Arizona State University (at the Hugh Downs School of Communications, of course) and is proud of a musical piece he composed for cellist Yo-Yo Ma. ``I would like to go to Juilliard and brush up on composition,'' Downs added. ``I'm also going to monitor some courses at Arizona State and, if I get the chance, I may peck away at my doctorate.'' Downs' 62 years in broadcasting have reaped multiple Emmys, honorariums and national broadcasting awards. Before he was at ABC, he was at NBC's ``Today'' show for nine years, hosted the TV game show ``Concentration'' for 11 years, and spent three years on the couch next to Jack Paar on ``The Tonight Show.'' TV also introduced Downs to his wife, Ruth, who worked in a TV production department. They have been married 57 years and have two children. Best O'Luck, Tom