Subject: Re: New Century Network From: bobwyman@medio.com (Bob Wyman) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 18:29:22 -0700

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At 03:33 PM 4/19/95 -0700, Steve Outing wrote:
> The principals seem to have done a good job of keeping this 
> quiet until the announcement.

Actually, I think it became fairly public that something was in the air when 
The Hearst Corporation, Knight-Ridder, The Times Mirror Company and others 
all announced that they were investing in Netscape. Also, there have been 
varying reports about the various chains getting together to discuss their 
disatisfaction with the current online opportunities.

An early indication of the Netscape deal as well as the roots of NCN would 
be the "Inside Media " (Cowles Business Media) story on March 29 by John 
Motavalli and Chuck Ross titled "Newspaper Consortium goes onto Web." In 
this story, they talk about Tribune, Times Mirror, Washington Post, 
Knight-Ridder and Newhouse having had discussions on this subject for over a 
year. The story claims that the group was lead by Charles Brumback of 
Tribune. It claims that the group was motivated by "these companies' 
dissatisfaction with the financial terms offered them by America Online and 
Prodigy." 

The story may give some insight into why today's press release seemed to 
stress that NCN was only for daily newspapers not weeklies or other media. 
It was reported that the earlier conversations "foundered because Times 
Mirror objected to a key part of the business plan that would have allowed 
smaller newspaper gruops and media companies to participate in the effort."

                bob wyman
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Subject: Re: New Century Network From: bobwyman@medio.com (Bob Wyman) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:19:08
How the Web Was Won
Subject: Re: New Century Network
From: bobwyman@medio.com (Bob Wyman)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:19:08