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The following is an excerpt from a S-1 SEC Filing, filed by LIBERTY MEDIA INTERNATIONAL INC on 6/4/2004.
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LIBERTY MEDIA INTERNATIONAL INC - S-1 - 20040604 - CAPITALIZATION

CAPITALIZATION

       The following table sets forth (i) our historical capitalization as of March 31, 2004, (ii) our adjusted capitalization assuming the spin off was effective on March 31, 2004, including the effects of monetary asset contributions from LMC in connection with our spin off from LMC, and (iii) our adjusted capitalization giving effect to our receipt of $499 million in net cash proceeds assuming the rights offering was fully subscribed and consummated on March 31, 2004, and assuming we used a portion of such net cash proceeds to repay amounts due to LMC. The table should be read in conjunction with our historical combined financial statements, including the notes thereto and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included elsewhere herein.

                               
March 31, 2004

As adjusted for
As adjusted for the spin off and
Historical the spin off the rights offering



amounts in thousands
Parent cash(1)
  $       50,000       518,210  
Subsidiary cash(2)
    1,286,923       1,286,923       1,286,923  
Other investments(1)
    686,823       1,257,944       1,257,944  
     
     
     
 
      1,973,746       2,594,867       3,063,077  
     
     
     
 
Payables, accruals and other liabilities
    1,466,259       1,466,259       1,466,259  
Due to LMC(3)
    30,790       30,790        
LMC short-term credit facility(3)
                 
Long-term debt
    3,636,964       3,636,964       3,636,964  
Deferred tax liabilities
    338,680       377,162       377,162  
     
     
     
 
     
Total liabilities
    5,472,693       5,511,175       5,480,385  
     
     
     
 
Minority interest
    1,102,529       1,102,529       1,102,529  
Equity:
                       
 
Common Stock ($.01 par value):
                       
   
Series A; 500,000,000 shares authorized; 139,428,256 assumed issued on a pro forma basis(4)
          1,394       1,394  
   
Series B; 50,000,000 shares authorized; 6,053,141 assumed issued on a pro forma basis(4)
          61       61  
   
Series C; 500,000,000 shares authorized; no shares assumed issued on a pro forma basis(4)
                 
 
Additional paid-in capital(4)
          6,433,070       6,932,070  
 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (27,618 )     32,571       32,571  
 
Accumulated deficit
    (1,714,900 )     (1,714,900 )     (1,714,900 )
 
Parent’s investment
    5,912,075              
     
     
     
 
     
Total equity
    4,169,557       4,752,196       5,251,196  
     
     
     
 
     
Total liabilities and equity
  $ 10,744,779       11,365,900       11,834,110  
     
     
     
 

          


  (1) Upon consummation of the spin off, LMC contributed to us $50 million in cash, 5 million American Depository Shares for preferred, limited voting ordinary shares of The News Corporation Limited with a market value of $158.6 million at March 31, 2004, and a 99.9% economic interest in 345,000 shares of preferred stock of ABC Family Worldwide, Inc. with a market value of $412.6 million at March 31, 2004.
 
  (2) We generally are not entitled to the cash resources of our operating subsidiaries.

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  (3) At the time of our spin off from LMC, one of our subsidiaries had outstanding notes payable in the aggregate principal amount of $[          ] to LMC and we entered into a short-term credit facility with LMC pursuant to which it has agreed, if requested by us, to make one or more loans to us in an aggregate principal amount of up to $[          ]. The subsidiary notes payable and any loans under the credit facility bear interest at 6% per annum, compounded semi-annually. The subsidiary notes payable and any amount that we have drawn on the credit facility and not prepaid, if any, will be due and payable no later than March 31, 2005. We will use a portion of the net proceeds from the rights offering to repay the subsidiary notes payable and loans we have outstanding under the credit facility at the time the rights offering closes, if any.
 
  (4) For purposes of this capitalization table, the total cash proceeds amount has been attributed to additional paid-in capital as the relative amounts attributable to our Series A and Series B common stock are not known at this time.

THE RIGHTS OFFERING

General

       Promptly following 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on                     , 2004, which is the record date for the rights offering, we will distribute to each holder of our Series A common stock, at no charge, [                    ] of a transferable subscription right for each share of Series A common stock owned as of the record date, and we will distribute to each holder of our Series B common stock, at no charge, [                    ] of a transferable subscription right for each share of Series B common stock owned as of the record date. The rights will be evidenced by rights certificates.

       Each right entitles the holder to a basic subscription privilege and an oversubscription privilege. Under the basic subscription privilege, each whole Series A right entitles the holder to purchase one share of our Series A common stock at a subscription price of $[          ] per share, a discount to the $[          ] per share closing price of our Series A common stock on the Nasdaq National Market on the date that the subscription price was determined, and each whole Series B right entitles the holder to purchase one share of our Series B common stock at a subscription price of $[          ] per share, a discount to the $[          ] per share closing price of our Series B common stock on the Nasdaq National Market on the date that the subscription price was determined. Each Series A right and Series B right also has an oversubscription privilege, as described below under the heading “—Subscription Privilege—Oversubscription Privilege.”

       The following describes the rights offering in general and assumes (unless specifically provided otherwise) that you are a record holder of our common stock. If you hold your shares in a brokerage account or through a dealer or other nominee, please see the information included below under the heading “—Beneficial Owners.” As used in this prospectus, the term “business day” means any day on which securities may be traded on the Nasdaq National Market.

Reasons for the Rights Offering

       We were a wholly owned subsidiary of LMC until June 8, 2004, at which time LMC distributed to its shareholders, on a pro rata basis, all of our shares of common stock. At the time of our spin off from LMC, one of our subsidiaries had outstanding notes payable in the aggregate amount of $[          ] to LMC and we entered into a short-term credit facility pursuant to which LMC agreed, if requested by us through December 31, 2004, to make one or more loans to us up to an aggregate principal amount of $[          ], at an interest rate of 6% per annum compounded semi-annually. The notes payable and any loans outstanding under the credit facility are due and fully payable on March 31, 2005. We have undertaken to LMC to use commercially reasonable efforts to consummate an equity or debt financing as soon as practicable after the spin off. We are conducting the rights offering in satisfaction of that undertaking as well as to obtain more permanent financing. Further, if the net proceeds of the offering are at least $500 million, we and LMC will terminate the short-term credit facility.

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Determination of Subscription Price

       On [                    ], 2004, the special pricing committee of our board of directors determined the Series A and Series B subscription price. The members of the special pricing committee are [                    ]. The Series A subscription price represented a discount of $[                    ], or approximately [     %], to the closing market price of our Series A common stock on the date that the subscription price was determined, and the Series B subscription price represented a discount of $[                    ], or approximately [     %], to the closing market price of our Series B common stock on the date that the subscription price was determined. In reaching these determinations, the special pricing committee considered, among other things, our historical financial performance, the market prices of our common stock since our spin off from LMC, discounts used in similar rights offerings and the general condition of the securities markets.

No Fractional Rights

       We will not issue or pay cash in lieu of fractional rights. Instead, we will round up any fractional rights to the nearest whole right. For example, if you own [                    ] shares of Series A common stock, you will receive [                    ] rights, instead of [                    ] rights you would have received without rounding.

       You may request that the subscription agent divide your rights certificate into transferable parts if you are the record holder for a number of beneficial owners of common stock. However, the subscription agent will not divide your rights certificate so that (through rounding or otherwise) you would receive a greater number of rights than those to which you would be entitled if you had not divided your certificates.

Expiration Time

       You may exercise the basic subscription privilege and the oversubscription privilege at any time before the expiration time, which is 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on [                    ], 2004, unless the rights offering is extended. Any rights not exercised before the expiration time will expire and become null and void. We will not be obligated to honor your exercise of rights if the subscription agent receives any of the required documents relating to your exercise after the expiration time, regardless of when you transmitted the documents, unless you have timely transmitted the documents pursuant to the guaranteed delivery procedures described below.

       We may extend the expiration time for any reason, and you will not be able to revoke your exercise of subscriptions.

       If we elect to extend the date the rights expire, we will issue a press release announcing the extension before 9:00 a.m. on the first business day after the most recently announced expiration time.

Subscription Privileges

       Your rights entitle you to a basic subscription privilege and an oversubscription privilege.

Basic Subscription Privilege

       The basic subscription privilege entitles you to purchase one share of the applicable series of common stock per whole right held, upon delivery of the required documents and payment of the applicable subscription price per share, prior to the expiration time. You are not required to exercise your basic subscription privilege, in full or in part, unless you wish to also purchase shares under your oversubscription privilege described below.

Oversubscription Privilege

       The Series A rights include an oversubscription privilege relating to shares of our Series A common stock, and the Series B rights include an oversubscription privilege relating to shares of our Series B common stock. The oversubscription privilege entitles you to purchase up to that number of shares of the

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applicable series of common stock offered in the rights offering which are not purchased by other rightsholders pursuant to their basic subscription privilege, upon delivery of the required documents and payment of the applicable subscription price per share prior to the expiration time. You will be permitted to purchase shares of the applicable series of common stock pursuant to your oversubscription privilege only if other holders of rights of the same series do not exercise their basic subscription privilege in full. You may exercise your oversubscription privilege only if you exercise your basic subscription privilege in full. If you wish to exercise your oversubscription privilege, you must specify the number of additional shares you wish to purchase, which may be up to the maximum number of shares of that series offered in the rights offering, less the number of shares you may purchase under your basic subscription privilege.

       Pro Rata Allocation. If there are not enough shares of a series to satisfy all subscriptions pursuant to the exercise of the oversubscription privilege relating to that series, we will allocate the shares that are available for purchase under the oversubscription privilege pro rata (subject to the elimination of fractional shares) among those rightsholders who exercise their oversubscription privilege. Pro rata means in proportion to the number of shares of the applicable series that you and the other holders of rights of the applicable series have purchased pursuant to the exercise of the basic subscription privilege. If there is a need to prorate the exercise of rights pursuant to the oversubscription privilege and the pro ration results in the allocation to you of a greater number of shares than you subscribed for pursuant to the oversubscription privilege, then we will allocate to you only the number of shares for which you subscribed pursuant to your basic and oversubscription privileges. We will allocate the remaining shares among all other rightsholders exercising their oversubscription privileges relating to the same series of our common stock.

       Full Exercise of Basic Subscription Privilege. You may exercise your oversubscription privilege relating to a given series of our common stock only if you exercise, in full, your basic subscription privilege relating to the same series for all rights represented by a single rights certificate. To determine if you have fully exercised your basic subscription privilege, we will consider only the basic subscription privilege held by you in the same capacity under a single rights certificate. For example, if you were granted rights under a single Series A rights certificate for shares of Series A common stock you own individually and rights under a single Series A rights certificate for shares of common stock you own jointly with your spouse, you only need to fully exercise your basic subscription privilege with respect to your individually owned rights in order to exercise your oversubscription privilege with respect to those rights. You do not have to subscribe for any shares under the basic subscription privilege owned jointly with your spouse to exercise your individual oversubscription privilege. Similarly, if you were granted rights under a single Series A rights certificate and rights under a single Series B rights certificate, you only need to exercise your basic subscription privilege with respect to your Series A rights in order to exercise your oversubscription privilege with respect to your Series A rights. You do not have to subscribe for any shares under the Series B basic subscription privilege in order to exercise your Series A oversubscription privilege. If you transfer a portion of your rights, you may exercise your oversubscription privilege if you exercise all of the remaining rights represented by the rights certificate you receive back from the subscription agent following the transfer.

       You must exercise your oversubscription privilege at the same time as you exercise your basic subscription privilege in full.

       If you own your shares of Series A or Series B common stock through your broker, dealer or other nominee holder and you wish for them to exercise your oversubscription privilege on your behalf, the nominee holder will be required to certify to us and the subscription agent:

  •  the series and number of shares of our common stock held on the record date on your behalf;
 
  •  the series and number of rights you exercised under your basic subscription privilege;
 
  •  that your entire basic subscription privilege held in the same capacity has been exercised in full; and

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  •  the series and number of shares of common stock you subscribed for pursuant to the oversubscription privilege.

Your nominee holder must also disclose to us certain other information received from you.

       Return of Excess Payment. If you exercise your oversubscription privilege and are allocated less than all of the shares of common stock for which you subscribed, the funds you paid for those shares of common stock that are not allocated to you will be returned by mail or similarly prompt means, without interest or deduction, as soon as practicable after the expiration time.

Exercising Your Rights

       You may exercise your rights by delivering the following to the subscription agent before the expiration time:

  •  your properly completed and executed rights certificate evidencing the exercised rights with any required signature guarantees or other supplemental documentation; and
 
  •  your payment in full of the subscription price for each share of the applicable series of common stock subscribed for pursuant to the basic subscription privilege and the oversubscription privilege.

       Alternatively, if you deliver a notice of guaranteed delivery together with your subscription price payment prior to the expiration time, you must deliver the rights certificate within three business days after the expiration time using the guaranteed delivery procedures described below under the heading “—Guaranteed Delivery Procedures.” You must, in any event, provide payment in full of the subscription price for each share of the applicable series of common stock being subscribed for pursuant to the basic subscription privilege and the oversubscription privilege to the subscription agent before the expiration time

Payment of Subscription Price

       Your cash payment of the subscription price must be made by either check or bank draft drawn upon a U.S. bank or postal, telegraphic or express money order payable to the subscription agent.

       Your cash payment of the subscription price will be deemed to have been received by the subscription agent only when:

  •  any uncertified check clears; or
 
  •  the subscription agent receives any certified check or bank draft drawn upon a U.S. bank or any postal, telegraphic or express money order.

       You should note that funds paid by uncertified personal checks may take five business days or more to clear. If you wish to pay the subscription price in respect of your basic subscription privilege and oversubscription privilege by an uncertified personal check, we urge you to make payment sufficiently in advance of the time the rights expire to ensure that your payment is received and clears by that time. We urge you to consider using a certified or cashier’s check, or money order to avoid missing the opportunity to exercise your rights.

       We will retain any interest earned on the cash funds held by the subscription agent prior to the earlier of the consummation or termination of the rights offering.

       The subscription agent will hold your payment of the subscription price in a segregated escrow account with other payments received from holders of rights until we issue to you your shares of common stock or return your overpayment, if any.

Exercising a Portion of Your Rights

       If you subscribe for fewer than all of the shares of common stock that you are eligible to purchase pursuant to the basic subscription privilege represented by your rights certificate, you may, under certain circumstances, request from the subscription agent a new rights certificate representing the unused rights

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and then attempt to sell your unused rights. See “—Method of Transferring and Selling Rights” below. Alternatively, you may transfer a portion of your rights and request from the subscription agent a new rights certificate representing the rights you did not transfer. If you exercise less than all of your rights represented by a single rights certificate, you may not exercise the oversubscription privilege.

Calculation of Rights Exercised

       If you do not indicate the number of rights being exercised, or do not forward full payment of the aggregate subscription price for the number of rights that you indicate are being exercised, then you will be deemed to have exercised the basic subscription privilege with respect to the maximum number of rights that may be exercised for the aggregate subscription price payment you delivered to the subscription agent. If your aggregate subscription price payment is greater than the amount you owe for your basic subscription and no direction is given as to the excess, you will be deemed to have exercised the oversubscription privilege to purchase the maximum number of shares available to you pursuant to your oversubscription privilege that may be purchased with your overpayment. If we do not apply your full subscription price payment to your purchase of shares of common stock, we will return the excess amount to you by mail or similarly prompt means, without interest or deduction as soon as practicable after the expiration time.

Instructions for Completing the Rights Certificate

       You should read and follow the instructions accompanying the rights certificate carefully. If you want to exercise your rights, you must send your completed rights certificates, any necessary accompanying documents and payment of the subscription price to the subscription agent. You should not send the rights certificates, any other documentation or payment to us. Any rights certificates and other items received by us will be returned to the sender as promptly as possible.

       You are responsible for the method of delivery of rights certificates, any necessary accompanying documents and payment of the subscription price to the subscription agent. If you send the rights certificates and other items by mail, we recommend that you send them by registered mail, properly insured, with return receipt requested. You should allow a sufficient number of days to ensure delivery to the subscription agent and clearance of cash payment prior to the expiration time.

Signature Guarantee May Be Required

       Your signature on each rights certificate must be guaranteed by an eligible institution such as a member firm of a registered national securities exchange, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States, subject to standards and procedures adopted by the subscription agent, unless:

  •  your rights certificate is registered in your name; or
 
  •  you are an eligible institution.

Delivery of Subscription Materials and Payment

       You should deliver the rights certificate and payment of the subscription price, as well as any nominee holder certifications, notices of guaranteed delivery, Depository Trust Company participant oversubscription forms and any other required documentation:

         
If by mail to:
  If by hand delivery to:   If by overnight delivery to:
[          ]
  [           ]   [          ]

You may call the subscription agent at [(866)           -                    ].

Foreign Shareholders call [(781)           -                    ].

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Guaranteed Delivery Procedures

       If you wish to exercise your rights, but you do not have sufficient time to deliver the rights certificates evidencing your rights to the subscription agent before the expiration time, you may exercise your rights by the following guaranteed delivery procedures:

  •  provide your payment in full of the subscription price for each share of the applicable series of common stock being subscribed for pursuant to the basic subscription privilege and the oversubscription privilege to the subscription agent before the expiration time;
 
  •  deliver a notice of guaranteed delivery to the subscription agent at or before the expiration time; and
 
  •  deliver the properly completed rights certificate evidencing the rights being exercised (and, if applicable for a nominee holder, the related nominee holder certification), with any required signatures guaranteed, to the subscription agent, within three business days following the date the notice of guaranteed delivery was delivered to the subscription agent.

       Your notice of guaranteed delivery must be substantially in the form provided with the “Instructions For Use of Liberty Media International, Inc. Rights Certificates” distributed to you with your rights certificate. Your notice of guaranteed delivery must come from an eligible institution which is a member of, or a participant in, a signature guarantee program acceptable to the subscription agent. In your notice of guaranteed delivery you must state:

  •  your name;
 
  •  the number of rights represented by your rights certificates, the number and series of shares of common stock you are subscribing for pursuant to the basic subscription privilege, the number and series of shares of common stock, if any, you are subscribing for pursuant to the oversubscription privilege; and
 
  •  your guarantee that you will deliver to the subscription agent any rights certificates evidencing the rights you are exercising within three business days following the date the subscription agent receives your notice of guaranteed delivery.

       You may deliver the notice of guaranteed delivery to the subscription agent in the same manner as the rights certificate at the addresses set forth under “—Delivery of Subscription Materials and Payment” above. You may also transmit the notice of guaranteed delivery to the subscription agent by facsimile transmission to [(781)      -          ]. To confirm facsimile deliveries, you may call [(781)      -          ].

       The information agent will send you additional copies of the form of notice of guaranteed delivery if you need them. Please call the information agent at [(800)      -          ].

Notice to Nominees

       If you are a broker, a dealer, a trustee or a depositary for securities who holds shares of our common stock for the account of others as a nominee holder, you should notify the respective beneficial owners of those shares of the issuance of the rights as soon as possible to find out the beneficial owners’ intentions. You should obtain instructions from the beneficial owner with respect to the rights, as set forth in the instructions we have provided to you for your distribution to beneficial owners. If the beneficial owner so instructs, you should complete the appropriate rights certificates and, in the case of the oversubscription privilege, the related nominee holder certification, and submit them to the subscription agent with the proper payment. A nominee holder that holds shares for the account(s) of more than one beneficial owner may exercise the number of rights to which all such beneficial owners in the aggregate otherwise would have been entitled if they had been direct record holders of common stock on the record date, so long as the nominee submits the appropriate rights certificates and certifications and proper payment to the subscription agent.

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Beneficial Owners

       If you are a beneficial owner of shares of our common stock or rights that you hold through a nominee holder, we will ask your broker, dealer or other nominee to notify you of this rights offering. If you wish to sell or exercise your rights, you will need to have your broker, dealer or other nominee act for you. To indicate your decision with respect to your rights, you should complete and return to your broker, dealer or other nominee the form entitled “Beneficial Owners Election Form.” You should receive this form from your broker, dealer or other nominee with the other subscription materials.

Procedures for DTC Participants

       We expect that the rights will be eligible for transfer through, and that your exercise of your basic subscription privilege may be made through, the facilities of DTC. If you exercise your basic subscription privilege through DTC, we refer to your rights as DTC Exercised Rights. If you hold DTC Exercised Rights, you may exercise your oversubscription privilege by properly executing and delivering to the subscription agent, at or prior to the expiration time, a DTC participant oversubscription exercise form and a nominee holder certification and making payment of the subscription price for the number and series of shares of common stock for which your oversubscription privilege is to be exercised. Please call the information agent at [(800)           -                    ] to obtain copies of the DTC participant oversubscription exercise form and the nominee holder certification.

Determinations Regarding the Exercise of Rights

       We will decide all questions concerning the timeliness, validity, form and eligibility of your exercise of rights. Our decisions will be final and binding. We, in our sole discretion, may waive any defect or irregularity, or permit a defect or irregularity to be corrected within whatever time we determine. We may reject the exercise of any of your rights because of any defect or irregularity. Your subscription will not be deemed to have been received or accepted until all irregularities have been waived by us or cured by you within the time we decide, in our sole discretion.

       We reserve the right to reject your exercise of rights if your exercise is not in accordance with the terms of the rights offering or in proper form. Neither we nor the subscription agent will have any duty to notify you of a defect or irregularity in your exercise of the rights. We will not be liable for failing to give you that notice. We will also not accept your exercise of rights if our issuance of shares of common stock pursuant to your exercise could be deemed unlawful or materially burdensome. See “— Regulatory Limitation” and “— Compliance with State Regulations Pertaining to the Rights Offering” below.

No Revocation of Exercised Rights

       Once you have exercised your basic subscription privilege and, should you choose, your oversubscription privilege, you may not revoke your exercise. Even if we extend the expiration time, you may not revoke your exercise.

Subscription Agent

       We have appointed [                    ] as subscription agent for the rights offering. We will pay its fees and expenses related to the rights offering.

Information Agent

       You may direct any questions or requests for assistance concerning the method of exercising your rights, additional copies of this prospectus, the instructions, the nominee holder certification, the notice of guaranteed delivery or other subscription materials referred to herein, to the information agent, at the following telephone number and address:

  [                    ]
  Banks and brokers call collect: [(212)           -                    ]
  All others call toll free: [(800)           -                    ]

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Method of Transferring and Selling Rights

       We anticipate that the Series A rights and Series B rights will be traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbols “[                    ]” and “[                    ],” respectively. We expect that rights may be purchased or sold through usual investment channels until the close of business on the last trading day preceding the expiration time. However, there has been no prior public market for the rights, and we cannot assure you that a trading market for the rights will develop or, if a market develops, that the market will remain available throughout the subscription period. We also cannot assure you of the prices at which the rights will trade, if at all. If you do not exercise or sell your rights you will lose any value inherent in the rights. See “—General Considerations Regarding the Partial Exercise, Transfer or Sale of Rights” below.

Transfer of Rights

       You may transfer rights in whole by endorsing the rights certificate for transfer. Please follow the instructions for transfer included in the information sent to you with your rights certificate. If you wish to transfer only a portion of the rights, you should deliver your properly endorsed rights certificate to the subscription agent. With your rights certificate, you should include instructions to register such portion of the rights evidenced thereby in the name of the transferee (and to issue a new rights certificate to the transferee evidencing such transferred rights). You may only transfer whole rights and not fractions of a right. If there is sufficient time before the expiration of the rights offering, the subscription agent will send you a new rights certificate evidencing the balance of the rights issued to you but not transferred to the transferee. You may also instruct the subscription agent to send the rights certificate to one or more additional transferees. If you wish to sell your remaining rights, you may request that the subscription agent send you certificates representing your remaining (whole) rights so that you may sell them through your broker or dealer. You may also request that the subscription agent sell your rights for you, as described below.

       If you wish to transfer all or a portion of your rights, you should allow a sufficient amount of time prior to the time the rights expire for the subscription agent to:

  •  receive and process your transfer instructions; and
 
  •  issue and transmit a new rights certificate to your transferee or transferees with respect to transferred rights, and to you with respect to any rights you retained.

       If you wish to transfer your rights to any person other than a bank or broker, the signatures on your rights certificate must be guaranteed by an eligible institution.

Sales of Rights Through the Subscription Agent

       If you choose not to sell your rights through your broker or dealer, you may seek to sell your rights through the subscription agent. If you wish to have the subscription agent seek to sell your rights, you must deliver your properly executed rights certificate, with appropriate instructions, to the subscription agent. If you want the subscription agent to seek to sell only a portion of your rights, you must send the subscription agent instructions setting forth what you would like done with the rights, along with your rights certificate.

       If the subscription agent sells rights for you, it will send you a check for the net proceeds from the sale of any of your rights as soon as practicable after the expiration time. If your rights can be sold, the sale will be deemed to have been made at the weighted average net sale price of all rights of the applicable series sold by the subscription agent. The aggregate fees charged by the subscription agent for selling rights will be deducted from the aggregate sale price for all such rights in determining the weighted average net sale price of all such rights. We cannot assure you, however, that a market will develop for the rights or that the subscription agent will be able to sell your rights.

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       You must have your order to sell your rights to the subscription agent before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on [                    ], 2004, the fifth business day before the expiration time. If less than all sales orders received by the subscription agent are filled, it will prorate the sales proceeds among you and the other holders of rights of the same series based on the number of rights of the applicable series that each holder has instructed the subscription agent to sell during that period, irrespective of when during the period the instructions are received by it. The subscription agent is required to sell your rights only if it is able to find buyers. If the subscription agent cannot sell your rights by 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on [                    ], 2004, the third business day before the expiration time, the subscription agent will return your rights certificate to you by overnight delivery.

       If you sell your rights through your broker or dealer, you will likely receive a different amount of proceeds than if you sell the same amount of rights through the subscription agent. If you sell your rights through your broker or dealer instead of the subscription agent, your sales proceeds will be the actual sales price of your rights rather than the weighted average sales price described above.

General Considerations Regarding the Partial Exercise, Transfer or Sale of Rights

       The amount of time needed by your transferee to exercise or sell its rights depends upon the method by which the transferor delivers the rights certificates, the method of payment made by the transferee and the number of transactions which the holder instructs the subscription agent to effect. You should also allow up to ten business days for your transferee to exercise or sell the rights transferred to it. Neither we nor the subscription agent will be liable to a transferee or transferor of rights if rights certificates or any other required documents are not received in time for exercise or sale prior to the expiration time.

       You will receive a new rights certificate upon a partial exercise, transfer or sale of rights only if the subscription agent receives your properly endorsed rights certificate no later than 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on [                    ], 2004, five business days before the expiration time. The subscription agent will not issue a new rights certificate if your rights certificate is received after that time and date. If your instructions and rights certificate are received by the subscription agent after that time and date, you will not receive a new rights certificate and therefore will not be able to sell or exercise your remaining rights.

       You are responsible for all commissions, fees and other expenses (including brokerage commissions and transfer taxes) incurred in connection with the purchase, sale or exercise of your rights, except that we will pay any fees of the subscription agent associated with the exercise of rights. Any amounts you owe will be deducted from your account.

       If you do not exercise your rights before the expiration time, your rights will expire and will no longer be exercisable.

Effect on Stock Options

       As of [                    ], 2004, we had outstanding options to purchase [                    ]shares of our Series A common stock and [                    ] shares of our Series B common stock. All of our outstanding stock options were issued pursuant to stock incentive plans. Holders of options to purchase shares of our common stock, regardless of series, will not receive rights. Rather, the incentive plan committee of our board of directors will make such equitable adjustments as it determines to be appropriate to preserve the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available pursuant to the options.

No Recommendations to Rightsholders

       Neither we nor our board of directors has made any recommendation as to whether you should exercise or transfer your rights. You should decide whether to transfer your rights, subscribe for shares of our common stock, or simply take no action with respect to your rights, based on your own assessment of your best interests.

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Termination

       There are no conditions to the consummation of the rights offering. However, we may terminate the rights offering for any reason at any time before the expiration time. If we terminate the rights offering, we will promptly issue a press release announcing the termination, and we will promptly thereafter return all subscription payments. We will not pay interest on, or deduct any amounts from, subscription payments if we terminate the rights offering.

Foreign Shareholders

       We will not mail rights certificates to shareholders on the record date or to subsequent transferees whose addresses are outside the United States. Instead, we will have the subscription agent hold the rights certificates for those holders’ accounts. To exercise their rights, foreign holders must notify the subscription agent before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on [                    ], 2004, three business days prior to the expiration time, and must establish to the satisfaction of the subscription agent that such exercise is permitted under applicable law. If a foreign holder does not notify and provide acceptable instructions to the subscription agent by such time (and if no contrary instructions have been received), the rights will be sold, subject to the subscription agent’s ability to find a purchaser. Any such sales will be deemed to be effected at the weighted average sale price of all rights sold by the subscription agent. See “—Method of Transferring and Selling Rights” above. If the subscription agent sells the rights, the subscription agent will remit a check for the net proceeds from the sale of any rights to foreign holders by mail. The proceeds, if any, resulting from the sales of rights of holders whose addresses are not known by the subscription agent or to whom delivery cannot be made will be held in an interest bearing account. Any amount remaining unclaimed on the second anniversary of the expiration time will be turned over to us.

Regulatory Limitation

       We will not be required to issue to you shares of our common stock pursuant to the rights offering if, in our opinion, you would be required to obtain prior clearance or approval from any state or federal regulatory authorities to own or control such shares and if, at the expiration time, you have not obtained such clearance or approval.

Issuance of Common Stock

       Unless we earlier terminate the rights offering, the subscription agent will issue to you the shares of the applicable series of our common stock purchased by you in the rights offering as soon as practicable after the expiration time. The subscription agent will effect delivery of the subscribed for shares of our common stock through the subscription agent’s book-entry registration system by mailing to each subscribing holder a statement of holdings detailing the subscribing holder’s subscribed for shares of our common stock and the method by which the subscribing holder may access its account and, if desired, trade its shares. The statement of holdings will also detail the method by which shareholders may request to receive shares of our common stock in certificated form.

       Your payment of the aggregate subscription price will be retained by the subscription agent and will not be delivered to us, unless and until your subscription is accepted and you are issued your subscribed for shares of our common stock. We will not pay you any interest on funds paid to the subscription agent, regardless of whether the funds are applied to the subscription price or returned to you. You will have no rights as a shareholder of our company with respect to your subscribed for shares of our common stock until the shares are delivered via the book-entry registration statement. Upon such delivery, you will be deemed the owner of the shares you purchased by exercise of your rights. Unless otherwise instructed in the rights certificates, the shares issued to you pursuant to your subscription will be registered in your name or the name of your nominee, if applicable.

       We will not issue any fractional rights or shares of common stock.

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Shares of Common Stock Outstanding

       As of [                    ], 2004, we had outstanding [                    ] shares of our Series A common stock and [                    ] shares of our Series B common stock. Based thereon and assuming the rights offering is fully subscribed, immediately following the completion of the rights offering:

  •  the number of outstanding shares of our Series A common stock will increase by [                    ], which represents a [          ]% increase in the number of outstanding shares of our Series A common stock; and
 
  •  the number of outstanding shares of our Series B common stock will increase by [                    ], which represents a [          ]% increase in the number of outstanding shares of our Series B common stock.

Compliance with State Regulations Pertaining to the Rights Offering

       We are not making the rights offering in any state or other jurisdiction in which it is unlawful to do so. We will not sell or accept an offer to purchase shares of our common stock from you if you are a resident of any state or other jurisdiction in which the sale or offer of the rights would be unlawful. We may delay the commencement of the rights offering in certain states or other jurisdictions in order to comply with the laws of those states or other jurisdictions. However, we may decide, in our sole discretion, not to modify the terms of the rights offering as may be requested by certain states or other jurisdictions. If that happens and you are a resident of the state or jurisdiction that requests the modification, you will not be eligible to participate in the rights offering. We do not expect that there will be any changes in the terms of the rights offering.