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Re: I'll see your raise and throw in a brand-new 52 week low to boot. :(

Umm, Bill, I'll see your new 52 week low, and raise you one very spikey high heel. I think if we turn this into a game of strip poker, it just might be a little more enjoyable. <VBG>

Interested? Well if you don't think you've got a good poker face, and now care to opt out, here's another news piece on the possibility of a Disney/Ebay TV deal:


Going Once: EBay in Talks About TV Show
By: Keith L. Alexander
10/18/00 8:39:00 AM
Source: USA Today
Web Auction Site Ponders Broadcast Version of Self, Possibly on Disney's ABC

Fans of eBay, the online auction site, may soon be able to see and bid for their favorite dolls, Beanie Babies and other collectibles through an eBay TV show.

The site said Tuesday that it is exploring a possible TV version of itself in talks with several broadcast and cable networks.


The show is being shopped as a daytime series that would air Monday through Friday. The show would feature items available for bidding through eBay and would also feature profiles of many of eBay's 16 million users. Other details of the show, such as whether telephone bids would be accepted, are still being developed, eBay says.

''It's still fairly early in the process. But we're fairly confident that we're making progress toward the ultimate realization of having a TV program,'' says eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove. No timetable is set, but Pursglove says, ''We would like to do it sooner rather than later.''

One of the networks eBay is talking to is Disney's ABC. Spokesman Kevin Brockman confirms that ABC has had ''ongoing'' talks about developing an eBay show either as an ABC daytime series or as a program to be syndicated by Disney's Buena Vista Television arm.

If eBay airs on ABC, it would be the first example of new media converging with old media to become a regular broadcast television series.

EBay has become one of the nation's few consistently profitable Internet companies. In its June quarter, eBay reported net income of $11.6 million on $97.4 million in revenue.

Earlier this year, eBay tapped a top Hollywood firm, the William Morris Agency, to help develop and sell the show. William Morris was behind ABC's prime-time hit Who Wants to be a Millionaire and CBS' Everybody Loves Raymond.

Disney and eBay already have some connections.

On Monday, Disney Auctions went up on eBay. The co-branded site, by Disney's Internet unit and eBay, auctions Disney collectibles and memorabilia, such as costumes from its movies.

And Meg Whitman, eBay's CEO, worked for Disney from 1989 to 1992 and was a senior vice president of marketing for Disney's consumer products division.

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