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Technology Stocks : Broadcast.com (Acquired by Yahoo) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: B. A. Marlow who wrote (754)	4/28/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: Mike Fredericks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1260

Hey everyone- I'm not a BCST investor (nor am I planning to be one) but am actually researching video over the 'net for another company I own... Anyway, I saw the following paragraph in a June 1998 article from CBS Marketwatch, right around the time of the BCST IPO: Of course, broadcast.com still faces numerous challenges. For instance, the company is still only fine-tuning its ability to broadcast content to a wide audience, which does in fact require a dedicated amount of bandwidth. And what happens when people start accessing the Internet through cable TV set-top boxes? Cable companies won't be eager to see broadcast.com getting paid to deliver content over its wires (At Home (ATHM), for instance, is forbidden by its cable partner agreements to allow video streaming segments of more than 10 minutes on its network). Question: Is this prohibition still in place? I would think that broadband access would be a boon for streaming video, but if you can't stream more than 10 minutes it would be hard to do anything real. Has BCST found a way to work around this 10 minute restriction? Have new agreements been signed? Thanks, -Mike