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Technology Stocks : WavePhore (WAVO)- VBI fed WaveTop for WebTV -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Gardiner who wrote (1059)	3/29/1998 9:31:00 PM
From: Ron	Respond to of 2843

I like WAVO as an investment a lot. But based on the info Senator Hatch is asking for from MSFT...I see some heavy duty government involvement in the next few months. Probably warranted. Hopefully will not affect WAVO's inclusion in next generation of MSFT product.

To: David Gardiner who wrote (1059)	3/30/1998 1:16:00 AM
From: Paul K	Respond to of 2843

The current issue of "TV Technology" magazine has an article about the Community Stations Resource Group (an informal association of the larger Public TV Stations) they are researching the convergence of the computer and TV and how PBS may profit from it: An article with large WaveTop logo includes this excerpt... " The hopes and plans of individual stations for the digital TV era may take a while to materialize, but public television is already capitalizing on the data-push business via the analog Vertical Blanking Interval. The PBS National Datacast unit has leased VBI capacity on PBS stations around the country to Wavephore Inc for an advertising-supported data-push service aimed at computer terminals with special decoder cards installed. The service, called WaveTop, has datastreams from WavePhore clients such as The Weather Channel On-line and quote.com that are distributed via satellite to PBS stations and inserted into the station's VBI for local broadcast. Subscribers to the free WaveTop service receive their Web-style information of choice in the background on their specially equipped computers and do not need to go to the trouble of logging on to the internet.....

To: David Gardiner who wrote (1059)	3/30/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: AJ Berger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2843

Convertible Shares explain high volume weakness now I understand how we could be having all this volume on with no upward momentum. According to a poster on AOL, this will mean some earnings dilution as another million or so shares are in the float. These additional shares may make the float big enough to attract more institutional interest as they seem to shy away from thinly traded stocks. Also WAVO will get a few more months of working capital they need to survive till the Ad revenue dollars start flowing in over the summer. The WSJ reported last Wednesday that the Short position remains above 1 million shares. Actually, some people like that so when the shorts are forced to cover on any really good news, the stock will rise more dramatically. I just wonder if the 4/6 release of WaveTop at that upcoming trade show will really make much difference at this point while the people who got convertible shares at $7 keep selling their stock windfall instead of holding. This stock sure is hard to call, but a lot of fun to follow. Good Luck.