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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (21766)	5/16/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

Here is a question for you. Have you spent a penny on anything because you heard its ad on bcst ? Do you even remember an ad you heard on bcst ? I was just reading through some posts and this made me think of two famous quotes that are relevant to YHOO today. 1) This is a response from some investors after being approached about putting some money into radio. "No imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular." 2) This is from the inventor of the vacuum tube. "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility."

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (21766)	5/16/1999 10:42:00 PM
From: Pruguy	Respond to of 27307

yes I can tell you of many ads I have heard while listening to bcst programming....Can I attribute direct purchases to those ads? No more than I can any other ad. I didn't want to digress from my original post....The question definitely was not what do you think of buying bcst....It was do you think it was a good idea to buy bcst and then change it to a programming arm of msft which has very little content broadcast in WMP format.....BCST since, they were bought by yhoo, has gopne from technology agnostic to eliminating the option of players you can use....RNWK is the format that 85% of the media sites choose to use, yet bcst has eliminated most of them from the loine-up and only offer the programming in WMP format which most people don't like to use because of inferior quality and lack of content distributed on that format...I spoke to bcst and they said they have favored msft player because they took money from msft to do this....This seems like a very bad business decision for bcst/yahoo but I thought some others on this board may feel differently....Are their any opinions here on this issue of buying a company that did things very succesfully and then changing their strategy in mid acquisition