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To: Kerry Phineas who wrote (30056)3/13/1998 9:19:00 AM
From: Thomas G. Busillo  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 53903
 
Kerry, maybe I'll give them another listen. I could've caught them on a bad day.

What should scare CNBC, et. al., is the notion that it's becoming increasingly possible for non-traditional broadcast alternatives to emerge. Bandwidth limitations aren't going to be limitations for long.

For all intents and purposes, I don't have a TV either. When I'm engaged in this crazy hobby, I never watch CNBC; I listen to it. Two days ago I finally saw the commercial for thestreet.com that ends "Cramer you've been a bad, bad boy" after hearing it for weeks. Then again, that "I call it the Roly-Poly" commercial was so ubiquitous and annoying (not necessarily in that order), I caved in and ran into my living room just to watch it. On the surface, that's crazy, but sexy women...eh, been there (like to go there again, preferrably within the next 24 hours <g>); a commerical that irritating - you just have watch it. And as an aside, TSC deserves a lot of credit for the way they recently got the Janus Group to amend their policy of not granting interviews to online financial pubs...but I digress...

The Net has changed print media, but IMHO be bigger threat is to traditional TV because there's less of a shift out of established behavioral patterns regarding viewer/reader interaction with the product.

BUT...if "he who controls the spice, rules the world" (I think I mangled that; sorry, Dune afficionadoes)...maybe someone's trying to extend that argument to "he who controls the content, rules whatever emerges out of PC/TV convergence".

IMHO, the Web is one place where quality will win out over crap...

...although quality should be accompanied by profits.

Hey, have I had too much coffee or what? <g>

Good trading,

Tom