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PFRENZ-Don't Panic-My account with Scottrade looks same way as it has from the beginning, just so you don't panic. All brokerage firms don't seem to deal the same way with these preferred shares.
This is what mine says:
L994 20000000 N/A 0.00
Thanks uwlungman I am sorry I didn't know. Unfortunately I don't have extra time to keep as good track of BKMP as I did QBID (and that one I didn't realize was a scam). I appreciate that you told me....;o}
2006 Dates - Unless noted, the following dates are holidays that
The NASDAQ Stock Market is closed.
January 2 - New Year's Day
January 16 - Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday
February 20 - Presidents' Day
April 14 - Good Friday
May 29 - Memorial Day
July 4 - Independence Day
September 4 - Labor Day
November 23 - Thanksgiving Day
December 25 - Christmas Day
Insider info from Nasdaq
BKMP
BKMP
BLACKOUT MEDIA CORP Other OTC
Insider Trades Description | Hide Summary
Insider Summary
Last 3 Mo. Last 12 Mo.
Number of Insider Trades: 0 1
Number of Buys: 0 0
Number of Sells: 0 1
Net Activity: 0 (10,000,000)
Total Shares Traded: 0 10,000,000
Number of Shares Bought: 0 0
Number of Shares Sold: 0 10,000,000
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Insider
Select an insider below for more information. Relation Last
Date Form
Type Trans
Type Own
Type Shares
Traded Last
Price Shares
Held
WINICK SANDY OFF 12/14/2005 Form 4 S D (10,000,000) $0.001 132,000,000
WINICK SANDY OFF 06/06/2005 Form 4 B D 2,000,000 $0.021 142,000,000
Thanks Neilgalt...lol Like it.
k3v1nmc-I got Scottrade same L994 in my account.
k3v1nmc-Thanks a lot...;o} eom
How do you upload a pict. in your sig? Thanks
usmabmass-Thanks for sending the email - that's at least some info...;o}
Afterhours-Great...:o} eom
Stockfire409-Thanx...:o} eom
Thanx Dakota, forgot the facts.:o}eom
I can't get in there, please input me somewhere THANX
COPY AND PASTE TO YOUR REPLY, AND ADD YOURSELF(11)
THESE ARE VOTES TO BRING RASICA BACK,
1. strongtower
2. virginian
3. newbee_one
4. Gene Moore
5. Mennypenny
6. Nenodj
7. MadMike
8. Captbly
9. gfs1999
10. JN
11.bepop12345
THESE ARE VOTES TO BRING RASICA BACK (10)
1. strongtower
2. virginian
3. newbee_one
4. Gene Moore
5. Mennypenny
6. Nenodj
7. MadMike
8. Captbly
9. gfs1999
10.bepop12345
Just a thought that the shares we got as dividends will get a new symbol and that could stand for another holding company that may have under its umbrella companies that are compatible with TFN. Just a thought....:o}
All the comp including TFN seem related.
Could this become a new IPO? Link
http://www.oceanoinc.com/indexflash.html
I got filled in 4 parts at 0.0005.eom
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Date:9/21/2006 4:09:38 PM
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Let's see who can guess the date of the first US carrier PR. The winner gets to pick the date of the vegas trip!
1. newsmile - October 27th 2006
2. bepop12345 - September 27th 2006
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Top 20 Cable Networks/subs as of 20 Jan 2006..
Name
1 News Corporation
2 NBC Universal
3 Viacom International Inc.
4 Tribune Co.
5 ABC/ Disney
6 Gannett Co. Inc.
7 Hearst-Argyle TV Inc.
8 Belo Corp.
9 Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.
10 Raycom Media Inc.
11 Univision Communications Inc.
12 Cox Enterprises Inc.
13 LIN Television Corporation
14 Washington Post Company
15 EW Scripps Co.
16 Meredith Corp.
17 Clear Channel Communications
18 Gray Television Inc.
19 Media General Inc.
20 Young Broadcasting Inc.
Source: BIA Media Access Pro, August 2005
B&C's Annual Ranking
MSO Basic subs
1 Comcast Cable Comm. 21.4M
2 DirecTV 11.9M
3 Time Warner Cable 9.4M
4 EchoStar Comm. 8.5M
5 Charter Comm. 6.4M
6 Cox Comm. 6.3M
7 Adelphia Comm. 5.5M
8 Cablevision Systems 3.0M
9 Advance/Newhouse 2.1M
10 Mediacom Comm. 1.6M
11 Insight Comm. 1.3M
12 Cable One 716k
13 RCN Corp. 430k
14 Classic Comm. 430k
15 Bresnan Comm. 314k
Source: Company reports
http://www.stationindex.com/tv/tv-markets
Top 100 Television Markets
1. Discovery (1985) | 89.9
2. ESPN (1979) | 89.9
3. CNN (1980) | 89.4
4. TNT (1988) | 89.4
5. USA Network (1980) | 89.2
6. Nickelodeon (1979) | 89.1
7. TBS (1976) | 89.1
8. Spike TV (2003) | 89.1
9. A&E Network (1984) | 89.0
10. Lifetime (1984) | 88.9
11. ESPN2 (1993) | 88.8
12. The Weather Channel (1982) | 88.8
13. The Learning Channel (1980) | 88.7
14. MTV (1981) | 88.5
15. C-SPAN (1979) | 88.4
16. Headline News (1982) | 88.3
17. HGTV88.3
18. ABC Family Channel (2001) | 88.3
19. The History Channel (1995) | 88.2
20. QVC88.1
RonnieD-Copies it from Scottrade only.eom
Dividends-Declaration Date-"announcement date"
1. The date on which the next dividend payment is announced by the directors of a company. This statement includes the dividend's size, ex-dividend date and payment date. It is also referred to as the "announcement date".
2. The last day on which the holder of an option must indicate whether they will exercise the option. Also known as the "expiration date".
Once it is authorized, it is known as a declared dividend and becomes the company's legal liability to pay it.
2. The declaration date of all listed stock options in the U.S. is on the third Friday of the listed month. If there is a holiday on the Friday then the declaration date falls on the third Thursday.
Different Types of Dividends
The decision to distribute a dividend is made by a company's board of directors. There is nothing requiring a company to pay a dividend, even if the company has paid dividends in the past. However, many investors view a steady dividend history as an important indicator of a good investment, so most companies are reluctant to reduce or stop their dividend payments. For more information on buying dividend paying stocks, see the articles How Dividends Work for Investors and The Importance of Dividends
Dividends can be paid in various different forms, but there are two major categories: cash and stock. The most popular are cash dividends. This is money paid to stockholders, normally out of the corporation's current earnings or accumulated profits.
For example, suppose you own 100 shares of Cory's Brewing Company (ticker: CBC). Cory has made record sales this year thanks to an unusually high demand for his unique peach flavored beer. The company therefore decides to share some of this good fortune with the stockholders and declares a dividend of $0.10 per share. This means that you will receive a check from Cory's Brewing Company for $10.00 ($0.10*100). In practice, companies that pay dividends usually do so on a regular basis of four times a year. A one-time dividend such as the one we just described is referred to as an extra dividend.
The stock dividend, the second most common dividend paying method, pays additional shares rather than cash. Suppose that Cory's Brewing Company wishes to issue a dividend but doesn't have the necessary cash available to pay everyone. He does, however, have enough Treasury stock to meet the requirements of the dividend payout. So instead of paying cash, Cory decides to issue a dividend of 0.05 new shares of CBC for every existing one. This means that you will receive five shares of CBC for every 100 shares that you own. If any fractional shares are left over, the dividend is paid as cash (because stocks can't trade fractionally).
Another type of dividend is the property dividend, but it is used rarely. This type of allocation is a physical transfer of a tangible asset from the company to the investors. For instance, if Cory's Brewing Company was still insistent on paying out dividends but didn't have enough Treasury stock or enough money to pay out all investors, the company could look for something physical (property) to distribute. In this case, Cory might decide that his unique peach beer would be the best substitute, so he could distribute a couple of six-packs to all the shareholders.
The Important Dates of a Dividend
There are four major dates in the process of a company paying dividends:
* Declaration date– This is the date on which the board of directors announces to shareholders and the market as a whole that the company will pay a dividend.
* Ex-date or Ex-dividend date– On (or after) this date the security trades without its dividend. If you buy a dividend paying stock one day before the ex-dividend you will still get the dividend, but if you buy on the ex-dividend date, you won't get the dividend. Conversely, if you want to sell a stock and still receive a dividend that has been declared you need to sell on (or after) the ex-dividend day. The ex-date is the second business day before the date of record.
* Date of record– This is the date on which the company looks at its records to see who the shareholders of the company are. An investor must be listed as a holder of record to ensure the right of a dividend payout.
* Date of payment (payable date) – This is the date the company mails out the dividend to the holder of record. This date is generally a week or more after the date of record so that the company has sufficient time to ensure that it accurately pays all those who are entitled.
Why All These Dates?
Ex-dividend dates are used to make sure dividend checks go to the right people. In today's market, settlement of stocks is a T+3 process, which means that when you buy a stock, it takes three days from the transaction date (T) for the change to be entered into the company's record books.
As mentioned, if you are not in the company's record books on the date of record, you won't receive the dividend payment. To ensure that you are in the record books, you need to buy the stock at least three days before the date of record, which also happens to be the day before the ex-dividend date.
As you can see by the diagram above, if you buy on the ex-dividend date (Tuesday), which is only two days before the date of record, you will not receive the dividend because your name will not appear in the company's record books until Friday. If you want to buy the stock and receive the dividend, you need to buy it on Monday. (When the stock is trading with the dividend the term cum dividend is used). But, if you want to sell the stock and still receive the dividend, you need to sell on or after Tuesday the 6th.
*Note: Different rules apply if the dividend is 25% or greater of the value of the security. For further details on dividend issues, search the NASD's website.
A Money Machine?
Now that we understand that a dividend can be received by purchasing the stock before the ex-date, can we make more money? Nope, it's not that easy. Remember, everybody knows when the dividend is going to be paid, and the market sees the dividend payout as a time when the company is giving out a part of its profits (reducing its cash). So the price of the stock will drop approximately by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date. The word "approximately" is crucial here. Due to tax considerations and other happenings in the market, the actual drop in price may be slightly different. In any case, the point is that you can't make free profits on the ex-dividend date.
Conclusion
The reasons for and effects of all these dates are by no means easy to grasp. It's important to clear up any confusion between ex-dividend and record dates. But always keep in mind that when you're investing in a dividend paying stock, it's more crucial to consider the quality of the company than the date on which you buy in.
****Share count updated**** 79, total shares:1,472,250,660,
1 07up 12,000,000
2 1millionfl 135,000,000
3 2500HD 44,000,000
4 artfink 3,669,500
5 bakker 10.000.000
6 Bampabruce 7,395,000
7 Benjamin 22,000,000
8 bennymang 4,200,000
9 bradon32601 16,000,000
10 captbly 2,881,450
11 Connie 20,000,000
12 emf 2,000,000
13 fo 3,460,000
14 fumanchu54 25,000,000
15 gamblingirl 800,000
16 georgio7 49,000,000
17 gfs 3,800,000
18 harr449 12,000,000
19 HOPEFULL 20000000
20 IL Padrino 7,000,000
21 jarhead003 30,000,000
22 JN 20,000,000
23 johngoodboy 6,000,000
24 kattj 3,300,000
25 krevata 29,400,000
26 maryundys 3,000,000
27 moostuck 12,000,000
28 nenodj 125,000,000
29 NGX 3,565,000
30 nudebo 6,600,000
31 Pennypicks 36,500,000
32 Quicksilver 2,950,000
33 ragsorriches 1,500,000
34 RayDaddy 37,000,000
35 richspend 3,750,000
36 rob3115 4,000,000
37 sammyk 22,000,000
38 SOLOMONIA 4,526,000
39 ssti2008 5,000,000
40 tailspin 1,500,000
41 theshepman 24,000,000
42 TinaMarie 10,000,000
43 virginian 8,600,000
44 Frzframe 200,000
45 RudyInvestor 800,000
46 Chad Hunt 11,200,000
47 Qwaisy 17,900,000
48 stockrfire409 2,200,000
49 just chillin 14,000,000
50 snipe6949 2,000,000
51 lburr1 - 6,000,000
52 xintrax 8,500,000
53 CashCowMoo 828,717
54 newsmile 170,077,086
55 Janetcanada 35,000,000
56 SweetAction 1,500,000
57 pfrenz 135,000,000
58 yetihunter 3000000
59 dmay30 862000
60 mary777 17000000
61 gammorah 3,200,000
62 RedSrt007 2,000,000
63 kurtzy 14,125,000
64 tbnfl4sun 22000000
65 TheBody 9500000
66 kilerb 30,000,000
67 NewAgeTrader 1,100,000
68 RedSrt007 2,000,000
69 exchange4gold 1,119,455
70 magicfingers 27041452
71 Stuart 19000000
72 kalel 1,700,000
73 svfamily 22,000,000
74 tryanythingonce 3,000,000
75 nmbr1stckpckr 8,000,000
76 PatD100 7,000,000
77 vanwilder 50,000,000
78 enaduotria 33,000,000
79.bepop12345 20,000,000
Shares Outstanding: 0.094 Bil
stockmavin-Obviously you don't like this stock and I do.
AmbitiousDrive
I am not exactly sure in the Pinks how the short covering works (because I am terrible with numbers..lol). I am just speculating like others or adding thoughts to the group.
bennymang-My feeling too..:o} eom
Restricted and Float
When you look a little closer at the quotes for a company, you may see some obscure terms that you've never encountered before. For instance, restricted shares refer to a company's issued stock that cannot be bought or sold without special permission by the SEC. Often, this type of stock is given to insiders as part of their salaries or as additional benefits. Another term that you may encounter is 'float'. This refers to a company's shares that are freely bought and sold without restrictions in the public. Denoting the greatest proportion of stocks trading on the exchanges, the float consists of regular shares that many of us will hear or read about in the news.
Authorized Shares
Authorized shares refer to the largest number of shares that a single corporation can issue. The number of authorized shares per company is assessed at the company's creation and can only be increased and decreased through a vote by the shareholders. If at the time of incorporation the documents state that 100 shares are authorized, then only 100 shares can be issued.
Now just because a company can issue a certain number of shares doesn't mean that it is going to issue all of these shares to the public. Typically, companies will, for many reasons, keep a portion of the shares in their own treasury. For example, CTC may decide to maintain a controlling interest within the treasury just to ward off any hostile takeover bids. On the other hand, the company may have shares handy just in case it wants to sell them for excess cash (rather than borrowing). This tendency of a company to reserve some of its authorized shares leads us to the next important and related term: outstanding shares.
Outstanding Shares
Not to be confused with authorized shares, outstanding shares refer to the number of stocks that a company actually has issued. This number represents all the shares that can be bought and sold by the public as well as all the restricted shares that require special permission before being transacted. As we already explained, shares that can be freely bought and sold by public investors are called the float, and this value changes depending on if the company wishes to repurchase shares from the market or sell out more of its authorized shares within its treasury.
Let's look back at our company CTC. From the previous example, we know that this company has 1000 authorized shares. If they offered 300 shares in an IPO, gave 150 to the executives and retained 550 in the treasury, then the number of shares outstanding would be 450 shares (300 float shares + 150 restricted shares). If after a couple years CTC was doing extremely well and wanted to buy back 100 shares from the market, the number of outstanding shares would fall to 350, the number of treasury shares would increase to 650 and the float would fall to 200 shares since the buyback was done through the market (300 – 100).
Rasica-Excellent. A keeper...LOL thanks
***** Vegas Party (76) **(got mixed up)
To avoid people getting left off the list, please make sure you update the number in the title after adding your name!!!!
1. Pennypicks - NYC
2. AnalyzeThis - California
3. NRA Member - Pittsburgh
4. LP640 - Atlanta
5. Moosetuck - WVa.
6. Melvinthemopboy - Boston
7. ROW87 - Florida
8. chrtcrzy - indy (plus friends that hold shares)
9. Reddog65 - TEXAS Baby!
10. Osignal2001 - Michigan
11. dick765 - Calif
12. JCNelson - Wyoming
13. Rasica - Montana
14. Bax - Baltimore
15. TinaMarie - Chapel Hill, NC
16. Completetrader - Dayton, OH
17. The Tooth Fairy - OHIO
18. ItalianDDog - Phoenix, AZ
19. Liz - Chicago
20. Ravensterpsfan - Maryland
21. slap shot - atlanta
22. Mary777
23. Dakota Dad -- Redding, CA
24. COMBOS - UTAH
25. 12Reflect - Charlotte, NC
26. KilerB - CA (He'll drive with ANAL EYES!)
27. strongtower-Madison,TN
28. Lurky - Florida
29. TheFisherman - Tarheel Country - NC
30. Lookforward - San Francisco, CA
31. Crissy7 - Santa Barbara, CA
32. seabeewife - Asheville, nc
33. Jerrydreamer - utah
34. Lburr2 - Michigan
35. budfox - NYC
36. super_so 32..Vegas
37. blackpearlbenz
38. 5150- Vermont
39. Bampabruce - Seattle
40. Jester_1us - Chicago
41. ovation - Detroit MI
42. loudness - Atlanta (you all can help me pick out my Ferrari @ the Penske/Wynn Ferrari dealership :) )
43. Mr. Peeps - Detroit Metro Area
44. Astrocade - Southern California
45. pfrenz - the other (better) half of Calif
46. Tru Fla Native- South Florida
47. K3v1nMc - Orlando, Florida
48. jarhead003-Maine
49. nealgalt1 - Arizona
50. kermit42 - Jersey City, NJ
51. seabiscuit - Calgary
52. Wendel - Manitoba, CANADA (your first (well, almost) CRAZY CANUCK)
53. Cardvic, Missouri
54. enaduotria - Edgewater, NJ
55. buckets - Chicago area
56. russelln - Middletown, NJ
57. KITTYTEK - Chicago,IL
58. MMAFAN - Arizona
59. py - Atlanta
60. tignet - DFW Texas
61. atout - Pittsburgh, PA
62. ssti2008 - Toronto, Canada
63. atotalbum - dumpster
64. Ranzy Nukka - Toronto - HOME OF BKMP!
65. 07up...Santa Fe, New Mexico!
66. Harry - Warwick, RI(and 4 Fight Girls)
67. nubedo - Roseburg, Oregon
68. Realtor- Indiana/Fla
69. Souzagotcha
70. Yoloinvest" One of the host and help paying the bar bill"
71. Connie
72. Photog - South Florida
73. The Free Nebula - North East Corridor...
74. jrod - Seattle
75. artfink - Oregon
76. bepop12345 - Orlando Florida
***** Vegas Party (67) *****
To avoid people getting left off the list, please make sure you update the number in the title after adding your name!!!!
1.Pennypicks - NYC
2.AnalyzeThis - California
3.NRA Member - Pittsburgh
4.LP640 - Atlanta
5.Moosetuck - WVa.
6.Melvinthemopboy - Boston
7.ROW87 - Florida
8.chrtcrzy - indy (plus friends that hold shares)
9.Reddog65 - TEXAS Baby!
10.Osignal2001 - Michigan
11.dick765 - Calif
12.JCNelson - Wyoming
13. Rasica - Montana
14. Bax - Baltimore
15. TinaMarie - Chapel Hill, NC
16. Completetrader - Dayton, OH
17. The Tooth Fairy - OHIO
18. ItalianDDog - Phoenix, AZ
19. Liz - Chicago
20. Ravensterpsfan - Maryland
21. slap shot - atlanta
22. Mary777
23. Dakota Dad -- Redding, CA
24. COMBOS - UTAH
25. 12Reflect - Charlotte, NC
26. KilerB - CA (He'll drive with ANAL EYES!)
27.strongtower-Madison,TN
28. Lurky - Florida
29. TheFisherman - Tarheel Country - NC
30. Lookforward - San Francisco, CA
31. Crissy7 - Santa Barbara, CA
32. seabeewife - Asheville, nc
33. Jerrydreamer - utah
34. Lburr2 - Michigan
35. budfox - NYC
36. super_so 32..Vegas
37. blackpearlbenz
38. 5150- Vermont
39. Bampabruce - Seattle
40. Jester_1us - Chicago
41. ovation - Detroit MI
42. loudness - Atlanta (you all can help me pick out my Ferrari @ the Penske/Wynn Ferrari dealership :) )
43. Mr. Peeps - Detroit Metro Area
44. Astrocade - Southern California
45. pfrenz - the other (better) half of Calif
46. Tru Fla Native- South Florida
47. K3v1nMc - Orlando, Florida
48. jarhead003-Maine
49. nealgalt1 - Arizona
50. kermit42 - Jersey City, NJ
51. seabiscuit - Calgary
52. Wendel - Manitoba, CANADA (your first (well, almost) CRAZY CANUCK)
53. Cardvic, Missouri
54. enaduotria - Edgewater, NJ
55. buckets - Chicago area
56. russelln - Middletown, NJ
57. KITTYTEK - Chicago,IL
58. MMAFAN - Arizona
59. py - Atlanta
60. tignet - DFW Texas
61. atout - Pittsburgh, PA
62. ssti2008 - Toronto, Canada
63. atotalbum - dumpster
64. Ranzy Nukka - Toronto - HOME OF BKMP!
65. 07up...Santa Fe, New Mexico!
66. Harry - Warwick, RI(and 4 Fight Girls)
67. nubedo - Roseburg, Oregon
68. bepop12345 - Orlando, Florida
Lurky-This is what they said in one anyway
4...."this is an outright grant to all shareholders".
rbtree-I get the impression that to reward the longs and that was emphasied in the PR, then this is the only way to make sure the longs get their reward for waiting for the big announcement. Could be there is somebody lurking to take over and then the whole picture would change and maybe the longs would miss a big runup. like they are holding back the tide and it really doesn't matter if the preferred shares can be traded or not in the long (or big) run...;o}
I am not sure if the Pinkies go by those kind of altruistic rules, but it is nice to think they would...:o}
uwlungman-That sounds great...:o}
Thankx Bud Fox, have to try to learn some more...lol
UNWUNGMAN-Or anyone else also-I have a question, because I don't know exactly all the ins and outs about the relationship between BKMP and Fightnetwork.
I need to ask this question (sorry if I am not in the right ballpark....lol
Because BKMP is a stock and Fightnetwork is not. Do you think Fightnetwork would be trying to own or take back the 20% that BKMP owns of it. This way get Sandy out.
This is why BKMP did the dividend?
Thanks...;o}
Correct me if I am wrong, but the Poison Pill would be used if the management thinks that something REALLY great is on the horizon and such mkes the company become very valuable.
Very nice sign on NetSolutions..;o}
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Updated Date: 17-jul-2006
Creation Date: 20-jan-1997
Expiration Date: 21-jan-2011