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

To: cm who wrote (1095)	4/2/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: BGL	Respond to of 2843

It's funny... I've been in this stock since 1995 and I've waited a long time for "push" industry to shakeout. I never thought it would be this hard to make money from push technologies. The applications seemed so intuitively positive and with the web bottleneck, I figured it would catch on in a matter of months. I think that WAVO has had two factors aiding its survival: (1) The depth of WAVO VBI technology is greater than any/most competitors. (2) David Deeds has a talent for financing which has kept the compny afloat without every making a dine (and I mean NEVER). I see a lot of the competitors getting tired and I truly believe WAVO will shakeout at or near the top of this industry... as to whether or not the industry will be profitable over time, that's to be seen. Thanks...BGL

To: cm who wrote (1095)	4/3/1998 8:31:00 PM
From: cm	Respond to of 2843

If This Article's Been Posted, I Apologize... From today's internetnews.com (home of Steve Harmon, who I like some days more than others) WaveTop Set to Unveil Broadcast Service [April 3, 1998] WaveTop, a consumer service of WavePhore Inc., announced launch plans for its home PC broadcast service that will deliver Internet programming via PBS television broadcast signals. WavePhore said the service will be officially introduced on Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. The scheduled launch follows the company's Beta 2.0 release on March 3. The free, advertiser-supported service is designed to distribute multimedia and Internet content to 50 markets initially, with the ultimate goal of reaching 99% of all U.S. households using the signals of 264 television stations in the PBS network. WavePhore said its Wavetop service hurdles 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. A consortium of almost 50 digital media, computer, and software companies are backing the service. Content providers include Time Inc. New Media, ZDNet, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, CBS SportsLine, PBS ONLINE, Quote.com, The Weather Channel, N2K's Music Boulevard, Barnes and Noble.com, among others. Not to be left out, Microsoft plans to include WaveTop data broadcast software in its Windows 98 OS. PC users who have TV tuner boards can then receive Net content without adding additional costs or tying up telephone lines.