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

To: Paul K who wrote (1071)	3/31/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: Paul K	Respond to of 2843

WaveTop Launches Home PC Broadcast Network to Top 50 U.S. Markets; Expands to Entire U.S. Over Next Few Months PR Newswire - March 30, 1998 09:44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- High-Speed Ad-Supported Service Delivers Live Multimedia Content and Internet Programming for Free to U.S. Households Using Nation's Public Television System WHAT: WaveTop launches Home PC Broadcast Service to Top 50 markets -- covering two-thirds of the U.S. -- while expanding to entire country over the next few months. The service overcomes the bandwidth limitations of the Internet by delivering six channels of multimedia-rich Web content using the vertical blanking interval (VBI) in cable and broadcast television signals. An entirely new mode of distributing and receiving entertainment, news and information, the free, ad-supported service, when fully launched, will reach 99 percent of all U.S. households using the signals of 264 television stations in the PBS network. WaveTop's high-speed service is backed by a coalition of nearly 50 leading digital media, computer, and software companies. In addition, Microsoft will include WaveTop data broadcast software in its Windows 98 operating system, giving users who have PCs equipped with TV tuner boards the ability to receive Internet content without incurring access costs or tying up telephone lines. WaveTop is a consumer service of WavePhore, Inc. (Nasdaq: WAVO). WaveTop content providers are among the world's leading media companies including Time Inc. New Media, which includes the on-line versions of: People, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Money, Fortune, Sports Illustrated for Kids and ZDNet which includes ZDNet News and the on-line versions of ComputerLife, Family PC and Yahoo Internet Life. Also providing content are USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, CBS SportsLine, PBS ONLINE, Quote.com, The Weather Channel, N2K's Music Boulevard, Barnes and Noble.com, Universal Press Syndicate -- Comics, Women's Wire and Prevention's Healthy Ideas, ParentTime, SuperMarkets Online and NECX. WHEN: Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 9, 1998 WHERE: National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 98 Convention - Las Vegas, Nevada Sands Expo Center, Level One, Hall G, Booth Number I11523 (Across from the Internet.Theater@NAB98) WHO: Demo of WaveTop Service and Interviews with: Sandy Goldman, Senior VP/GM, WaveTop Patrick Gilbert, Senior VP/CTO, WaveTop CONTACT: For more information or to schedule an interview please contact: Bernadette Callahan, Senior Associate of Neale-May & Partners, at (650) 328-5555 x120 or E-mail callahan@nealemay.com. WaveTop Broadcast Cities (Effective April 6, 1998) DMA Rank PBS Station City State 1 WNET-13 New York City NY 2 KCET-28 Los Angeles CA 3 WTTW-11 Chicago IL 4 WHYY-12 Philadelphia PA 5 KQED-9 San Francisco CA 6 WGBH-2 Boston MA 7 WETA-26 Washington DC 8 KERA-13 Dallas TX 9 WTVS-56 Detroit MI 10 WGTV-8 Atlanta GE 11 KUHT-8 Houston TX 12 KCTS-9 Seattle WA 13 WVIZ-25 Cleveland OH 14 KTCI-17 Minneapolis MN 15 WEDU-3 Tampa FL 16 WPBT-2 Miami FL 17 KAET-8 Phoenix AZ 18 KRMA-6 Denver CO 19 WQED-13 Pittsburgh PA 20 KVIE-6 Sacramento CA 21 KETC-9 St. Louis MO 22 WMFE-24 Orlando FL 23 WMPB-67 Baltimore MD 24 KOPB-10 Portland OR 25 WFYI-20 Indianapolis IN 26 KPBS-15 San Diego CA 27 WEDH-24 Hartford CT 28 WUNG-58 Charlotte NC 29 WUNC-4 Raleigh-Durham NC 30 WCET-48 Cincinnati OH 31 WMVS-10 Milwaukee WI 32 KCPT19 Kansas City KA 33 WDCN-8 Nashville TN 34 WOSU-34 Columbus OH 35 WRET-49 Spartanburg SC 36 KUED-7 Salt Lake City UT 37 WGVU-35 Grand Rapids MI 38 KLRN-9 San Antonio TX 39 WNED-17 Buffalo NY 40 WHRO-15 Norfolk VA 41 WYES-12 New Orleans LA 42 WKNO-10 Memphis TN 43 KETA-13 Oklahoma City OK 44 WXEL-42 West Palm Beach FL 45 WITF-33 Harrisburg PA 46 WUNL-26 Winston-Salem NC 47 WSBE-36 Providence RI 48 KNME-5 Albuquerque NM 49 WVIA-44 Scranton PA 50 WKPC-15 Louisville KY 64 KLVX-10 Las Vegas NM SOURCE Wavephore, Inc. /PRNewswire -- March 30/ /Company News On-Call: prnewswire.com or fax, 800-758-5804, ext. 107524/ /Web site: wavephore.com (WAVO)

To: Paul K who wrote (1071)	3/31/1998 9:40:00 PM
From: AJ Berger	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2843

What do you think of my ranting I'm a bit peeved at WAVO right now, for misleading us till now. Please help me determine if my concerns are justified, or ridiculous. 1. VBI speed was earlier billed as faster than ISDN (>128kb/sec), and now we hear it's only running at 14.4 kb/sec with the "promise" of a doubling of that by years end. 2. Earlier we read claims of 99% penetration of the PBS stations in North America. Now we hear of ONLY 50 stations, and speculation of signal restrictions with CableTV based input. 3. We read of dozens of Content providers signing up, when the truth is, you are really getting a few publishing companies peddling their newstand offerings electronically. 4. Now we hear speculation that WaveTop may be giving away ad space in trade for favors I'm sure they're getting from access providers and other cooperative partners. 5. While PointCast is a different type of system, it's strikes me as odd that this push provider problems do not reflect badly on WaveTop, while PointCast is restructuring from revenue shortfalls. 6. We are basking in the warm glow of MicroSoft's support, but don't think for one second that MSFT is doing WAVO any favors. To Mr.Bill WaveTop is just another gimmick they hope will help sell Windows'98. I wonder if that persistant 1-mil+ short position may be right. Oh, I'll certainly bet that with all the hype between 4/6 thru 6/25 we'll have plenty of good upside days, but when the dust settles, this VBI venture may not turn a profit until they lose the exclusivity to other networks like ABC, NBC, & CBS who can just do the same thing on their networks, and those guys have International penetration! Forgive me... I'm just pissed I did'nt think of buying HAUP instead instead of WAVO.