Details/Directions Please !!!

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> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 16:05:55 -0400
> From: Carl Malamud <carl@radio.com>
> Subject: Pardon me sir, but may I have some more bits?
> To: rem-conf@es.net
> Message-id: <199404122005.QAA25670@trystero.radio.com>
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> Org: Internet Multicasting Service
> 
> The Internet Multicasting Service is pleased to announce our latest
> special event ("cheap stunt") to take place May 3-6 in Las Vegas at the
> INTEROP Conference and Exhibition.  In cooperation with our sponsors,
> we're putting together a "cyberstation" as an Internet Showcase.
> Cyberstation is media-speak for "using existing services such as imm,
> vat, nv, www, gopher, ftp, email."
> 
> Basically what we're going try and put 40+ hours of non-stop live
> programming on the net, sort of a "Wayne and Garth meet the Information
> Superhighway."  ARPA will be furnishing their Enterprise Room as the NOC
> for this event, Interop is providing 5,000 square feet of space, MCI is
> donating 4 T1 lines, UUNET and BARRnet are providing Internet
> connectivity, Cisco is providing a router, and Sun is providing oodles
> of Sparcstations.  Lots of other folks are making contributions as
> well.
> .....<edited>
> A few of the features on this little media event include:
> 
>         RT-FM.  Music on the net *with* BMI/ASCAP licensing.
> 
>         Monitor Radio from APR.  Beginning of a 1-year agreement
>         to bring a 1-hour daily newsmagazine to the net.
> 
>         Live talk shows featuring John Gage from Sunergy,
>         Moira Gunn from TechNation.  Live interviews with
>         Washington VIPs from our D.C. studios ("Back to you
>         Jack ...").
> 
>         Evening concerts with Tungsten Macaque, our house
>         band and featuring the fabulous truth chair, listener
>         callins, top-ten lists, and lots of fabulous prizes.
> 
> Specific details will be forthcoming, but we wanted to post an early
> note to the net that we plan on multicasting the following times:
> ....<edited>
> 
> Stay tuned for more details.  We've got a couple of suprises which
> will be announced closer to show time.
> 
> Carl Malamud
> Internet Multicasting Service