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To: DiViT who wrote (26924)	12/19/1997 2:34:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 50808

CUBE in positive territory. Dave, I don't know much about this techie stuff, but as I recall, don't ice cubes float to the top? This may be a great buying opportunity. Message 2996491

To: DiViT who wrote (26924)	12/19/1997 3:58:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

You can still buy a d-box in Germany, but no advertising..................... Bertelsmann Freezes Marketing Of Digital Sat Services Newsbyte News Network Thu, Dec 18 1997 HAMBURG, GERMANY, 1997 DEC 18 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. Somewhat unexpectedly, German media giant Bertelsmann has announced that its Premiere pay satellite TV joint venture with Kirsch will have its marketing budget frozen for the time-being. The company will continue to sell subscriptions to the service, Newsbytes understands, but the service will not be advertised. As reported previously by Newsbytes, digital satellite TV services in France and Germany have not been selling in anywhere near the numbers that the companies had foreseen, a fact that many attribute to the US$800 price tags for the Nokia d-box decoders, on top of which subscriptions of approaching US$20 a month must be paid. Compared to the wealth of free-to-view analog channels accessible via the same Astra series of satellites, and with analog decoders selling for around 30 percent of their digital equivalent, it's not difficult to see why viewers are not signing up to the digital service en masse, Newsbytes notes. The "freeze on marketing" story took a new twist this morning when some German newspapers reported that the freeze may be a method of placating the European Commission (EC), which has still not formally approved the joint venture operation between the two German media companies, Newsbytes notes. As reported by Newsbytes in March, the UK's BSkyB operation dumped plans to merge its operations with Kirch in Germany "because of a failure to agree a number of fundamental issues." BSkyB has previously announced plans to take a 49 percent stake in DF1, Kirch's German digital television service, in the summer of last year, but the nothing further was heard until March of this year. In March, Newsbytes reported that Industry experts had suggested that the plan foundered on the twin problems of lack of interest in digital satellite TV in Europe, plus BSkyB's stake in the Premiere digital venture. Reported by Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com . (19971218) (Copyright 1997)