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To: gpowell who wrote (29383)11/8/2001 2:07:52 PM
From: Ahda  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 29970
 
In any case, the exclusivity agreements, which everyone valued so highly, seems like it was the very thing that drove ATHM into bankruptcy.

The creators of the exclusive the offering called ATHM

TCI.............. 23.8 Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hartford, Miami,
Pittsburgh, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and
Washington, D.C.
Comcast.......... 7.3 Baltimore, Detroit, Northern New Jersey, Orange
County, Philadelphia and Sarasota
Cox.............. 5.2 Hampton Roads, Hartford, New Orleans, Oklahoma
City, Omaha, Orange County, Phoenix, Providence
and San Diego
Rogers........... 2.7 London, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria
Shaw............. 2.0 Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Windsor and
Winnipeg
Marcus........... 1.9 Fort Worth
Intermedia....... 1.4 Asheville, Greenville, Nashville and Spartanburg
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Total............ 44.3
====

Thomas A. Jermoluk(1)... 40 Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer
David P. Bagshaw........ 44 Senior Vice President, @Media Group
Dean A. Gilbert......... 40 Senior Vice President and General Manager, @Home Group
Kenneth A. Goldman...... 47 Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Donald P. Hutchison..... 40 Senior Vice President and General Manager, @Work Group
John L. O'Farrell....... 38 Senior Vice President, International
Milo S. Medin........... 34 Vice President, Networks
David G. Pine........... 38 Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
William R. Hearst 47 Vice Chairman
III(1)(2)..............
James L. Barksdale(1)... 54 Director
Brendan R. Clouston(4).. 44 Director
L. John Doerr(1)(3)..... 45 Director
John C. Malone.......... 56 Director
Bruce W. 47 Director
Ravenel(2)(3)(4).......
Brian L. Roberts........ 37 Director
Edward S. Rogers........ 63 Director
Larry E. Romrell(4)..... 57 Director
David M. Woodrow(2)..... 51 Director

TCI............. 8/29/95 Series T Preferred Stock 770,000 $ 7,700,000
KPCB............ 8/29/95 Series K Preferred Stock 230,000 2,300,000
TCI............. 5/9/96 Series T Preferred Stock 770,000 7,700,000
KPCB............ 5/9/96 Series K Preferred Stock 230,000 2,300,000
</TABLE>
1996 Financing from TCI, Comcast, Cox and KPCB. On August 1, 1996, the
Company issued 770,000 shares of its Series AT Preferred Stock to a wholly
owned subsidiary of TCI in exchange for the cancellation of 770,000 shares of
the Company's Series T Preferred Stock and sold additional shares of its
Preferred Stock to wholly owned subsidiaries of TCI, Comcast and Cox and
purchasers affiliated with KPCB (the "KPCB Purchasers"), in each case at a
cash purchase price of $10 per share, as follows:

I posted this all taken from the original offering. This i feel will aid T's position in the suits that are to me useless to the shareholders as it could take years to solve but it will provide some decent champagne to the attourneys.

I want to laugh as these people had some knowledge of cable where T had not even learned how to change the diaper.



To: gpowell who wrote (29383)11/8/2001 2:50:44 PM
From: KailuaBoy  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 29970
 
In any case, the exclusivity agreements, which everyone valued so highly, seems like it was the very thing that drove ATHM into bankruptcy.

The exclusivity agreements, wether right or wrong, were amended in a deal between Cox, Comcast and AT&T that accrued no benefit to ATHM shareholders. The amendments were approved by the ATHM board which was comprised of AT&T, Cox and Comcast.

It's not exclusivity that killed the cat. It's the ownership mixed with Silicon Quiche management (see ahahha's definition).

Proof of the Silicon Quiche allegation lies in:

Blue Mountain
Excite
Enliven
Match Logic
iMall
Pogo
Work.bomb
Financial mismanagement
Jeep burning
Earnings reports delivered via telephone from a yacht in South America (missed earnings by the way)
Telecommuting 3,000 miles because your wife likes East Coast but you want to play CEO
Layoffs without severance
Disappearing vacation balances
Bounced last checks
Golden parachutes for people willing to preside over a BK
Bonuses awarded just prior to BK filing
"Doubling down" on failed strategies
............. Mr. Lucky

Some Mr. Lucky feedback from the critics:

Typically outfitted in a leopard-print cowboy hat and a green python-print shirt, the Luckster's supposed to convey in-control attitude. In the TV spots, he engages in Excite-enabled heroics, like dodging sand traps on a golf course after picking up a few tips at My Excite Sports: vaguely amusing stuff. In the outdoor ads, though, Mr. Lucky comes off as an insufferable prick, his cool frozen in self-satisfied mid-smirk (think Eric Roberts). There's just too much dissonance between Excite's sober, mild-mannered site and its leering, leathery Lothario. The irony is that in this narrowcast age, when nobody's idea of hip is the same, Mr. Lucky feels like an instant anachronism. - New York Magazine

Stay@Home, Mr.Lucky
Excite@Home's unexciting billboards bomb.
By Beth Snyder Bulik, September 2000 Issue Business 2.0

coming from a thirty-something white male wearing the pelts of dead animals, "Turn you on" sounds like a come-on. Or so say the critics. "‘Turn you on’ sounds like a cheesy slogan and ‘Mr. Lucky’ seems like a cheesy mascot of some second-rate porn site.


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