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To: Steve Hausser who wrote (4134)	1/23/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4748

Excerpt from today's Wired story. WN: What advances do you see in the future of televised football? Madden: Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you. You oughta be able to pick anything that you want, and I think one of those cameras could be on the officials, too. If you were at the 49ers game [where receiver Jerry Rice fumbled the ball, which was missed by the officials], you saw the official point, blow the whistle, and wave. Even when the Green Bay guy picked up the ball, you knew that that wasn't anything, because they were all waving their arms that the ball was dead. With television you don't see that. That's the next thing we have to do. I'm [also] trying to figure out a way ... you know that speed gun they have in baseball, where they can just point the gun at the pitcher and then tell how fast the ball is thrown? I'm trying to come up with something like that for football. People wanna know how hard something is. How hard was that hit? How fast was that ball? How far did that home run go? I know that in baseball, people are always interested in that. And there's probably the same kind of interest in football, but we've never gotten to it. I'm not the technology guy that does it. But I tell someone we ought to do it. I think about it all the time. WN: Does your partner Pat Summerall get to use the technology in the booth, too? Madden: Well, no, I'm kind of the goofy one. I have the Telestrator, and I have the clicker, and I have all that stuff. Pat doesn't. Related Wired Links: Super Bowl's Other Lineup 21.Jan.99

To: Steve Hausser who wrote (4134)	1/23/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: Steve Hausser	Respond to of 4748

John Madden sees ACTV's individualized television coming to the NFL. Quite frankly, I do too, in the fall of '99. This comes to you compliments of Wired News and OHMARTIANO on Yahoo: WN: What advances do you see in the future of televised football? Madden: Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you can watch the end-zone shot, or you can watch an isolated shot of Terance Mathis or whoever you want to. Because right now, the only thing that you watch is what the producer or director decides to show you. wired.com

To: Steve Hausser who wrote (4134)	1/23/1999 5:30:00 PM
From: art slott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4748

Woowee! Who would have "thunk" a couple of years ago that Actv would be on the verge of being the FRAMEWORK of the next biggest THING. "The TV Guide deal is a springboard for making UVSG and its Prevue Networks division a worldwide player, Boylan says. "What we can do globally with the guide business is limitless. What we can do to sell Coca-Cola on 20 platforms in 50 different languages is a hell of a challenge. But it's eminently doable if we're smart on how we execute."