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Published Date: Oct. 11, 1996
Company Name: University Netcasting Inc.
Address: 2185 Faraday Ave., Suite 100
Carlsbad, Calif. 92008
Main Telephone
Number: 619/431-8221
Facsimile
Number: 619/431-8108
Chief Executive
Officer: Richard Beedon
Chief Financial
Officer: David Wogahn
Public Relations
Contact: Benjamin L. Padnos
Business number: 619/431-8221, ext. 124
Home number: 619/259-4328
URL Address: http://www.uninc.com
Industry: Internet/On-line
Company description: University Netcasting Inc. (UNI) is the leading supplier of official collegiate sports information on the Internet. The company's mission is to serve, expand and strengthen the 80 million member collegiate affinity market using Internet and multimedia technology. University Netcasting is uniting a consortium of leading colleges, universities, athletic conferences and other collegiate entities to create a network of "official" collegiate athletics World Wide Web sites. UNI builds and maintains each member's Official Athletic Site (OAS OAS See: Option adjusted spread ), the exclusive, authorized sports information site for that institution. UNI created FANSonly (http://www.fansonly.com), "the official 24-hour college sports news and entertainment center on the Web," as the gateway to the network. Founded in August 1996, Carlsbad, Calif-based University Netcasting is the outgrowth of some of the most successful companies in the collegiate industry, including Raycom Inc., a dominant college sports programmer and marketer, Stella Interactive, publishers of ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Sports Presents the College Sports Series on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and The Collegiate Licensing Co. (CLC (The Computer Language Company Inc.) The publisher of this Encyclopedia. See About this product. ), the most trusted professional manager of collegiate licensing, serving approximately 150 collegiate entities. Other equity holders in UNI include iXL (http://www.ixl.com), an Atlanta-based, Internet/multimedia development company chaired by communications entrepreneur Bert Ellis, and venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Baccharis Capital Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., and Lawrence & Associates of Toronto. CONTACT: University Netcasting Inc. |
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