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To: Eggolas Moria who wrote (51927)	3/15/1999 7:14:00 AM
From: Earlie	Respond to of 132070

Gary: No wonder those bill collectors catch up with me so quickly. (g) To be serious, this whole darned "Big Brother" aspect to the use of PCs is starting to "bug" me (lousy pun). The problem is that I doubt there is any way that it can be prevented. As soon as a defence is created, someone quickly devises a new way to skate around it. Life in modern times. Best, Earlie

To: Eggolas Moria who wrote (51927)	3/15/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: Eggolas Moria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

The Weather Channel truly is a success story: "Reaching 70 million homes and offering programming that may cost less to produce than almost anything else this side of C-SPAN, the Weather Channel is "a cash machine," in the estimation of Jessica Reif, a media analyst at Merrill Lynch. The financial figures are not reported, because the channel is privately held, owned by Landmark Communications, a family-controlled company in Norfolk, Va., whose other media holdings include The Virginian-Pilot, The Roanoke Times, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, and WTVF-TV in Nashville, Tenn. But a person familiar with its finances said that the Weather Channel generated about $100 million in operating profits in 1998 on revenue of $200 million that came primarily from advertising, as well as from fees paid by cable operators. With a remarkably high profit margin of some 50 percent, the service could probably attract a buyer willing to pay as much at 15 times cash flow, or about $1.65 billion, according to Derek Baine, a cable analyst at Paul Kagan Associations, the media consulting firm." Now, if they would only tell us more about the female meteorologists.<g> nytimes.com