SBC Yahoo! Presents Live Webcast Of Crossroads Guitar Festival Featuring Eric Clapton And Friends
Live Benefit Concert by World's Greatest Guitarists Available Online with Exclusive Viewing for SBC Yahoo! DSL Members
SAN ANTONIO & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2004--Internet leaders SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced an exclusive webcast of live performances by more than 20 guitar legends performing at the three-day Crossroads Guitar Festival, an SBC presentation, June 4-6, 2004.
Online music fans nationwide will have front row seats to the Cotton Bowl Stadium Concert in Dallas on Sunday, June 6 beginning at 11:50 a.m. CDST, when they log on to http://launch.yahoo.com/crossroads. Live coverage of the festival is available to the general public until 5:00 p.m. CDST on Sunday. Beginning at 5:00 p.m. CDST SBC Yahoo! DSL members gain exclusive live online viewing privileges of performances by headliner Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, James Taylor, B.B. King and others.
"We're pleased to join with one of the world's premiere musicians to bring such a talented line-up to viewers and music enthusiasts nationwide," said Michael Grasso, executive director, SBC Marketing. "As the presenting sponsor of the weekend event and the nation's leading DSL provider, SBC companies are bringing this level of high quality entertainment to people's homes through broadband, with exclusive benefits for SBC Yahoo! DSL members."
"We are constantly exploring ways to provide the most innovative broadband experience to our consumers," said Doug Garland, senior vice president, Broadband and Mobile Services, Yahoo!. "SBC Yahoo! members are already customizing their music experience through streaming audio with LAUNCHcast Plus-this is yet another way we can respond to peoples' interests by giving them more of what they're 'listening' for."
About Crossroads Guitar Festival
The three-day festival on June 4-6, 2004 will raise funds to support the Crossroads Centre at Antigua, an alcohol and drug treatment and education centre founded by Eric Clapton in 1997. In addition to live performances by Clapton and other music legends, the weekend will feature the Guitar Center Village including interactive booths from leading guitar manufacturers, the "buy-sell-trade" Vintage Showcase and a display of guitars donated from Clapton and friends' personal collections for the forthcoming June 24 Christie's auction with proceeds benefiting the Crossroads Centre. Concerts begin Friday evening and continue into Saturday afternoon on multiple indoor and outdoor stages. The event will culminate with an 11-hour concert at the Cotton Bowl on Sunday.
About SBC Yahoo! DSL
SBC Yahoo! DSL offers internet users a suite of customer-driven features and products including enhanced safety and security, improved communications tools and even greater levels of user personalization. The first built-for-broadband experience, SBC Yahoo! DSL conveniently combines the benefits of a major broadband provider with a leading Internet portal. SBC Yahoo! DSL is available for as low as $26.95 a month for new customers who purchase service as part of an SBC Connections package or when ordered online or through select retail locations before June 30. To learn more about SBC Yahoo! DSL or to sign up for the service, customers can visit http://sbc.yahoo.com or call 1- 866-SBC-YAHOO.
Customers will also be charged a monthly FUSF (Federal Universal Service Fund) cost recovery fee to help cover charges from our data transport supplier pursuant to state and federal telecom regulations. This fee is not a tax or government required charge.
$26.95 monthly pricing available for new residential online orders or if purchased as part of a qualifying services bundle before June 30, 2004. SBC local service and one year term required. $200 early termination fee. At end of term, then-current rate applies. $150-$200 additional charge if technician install is required or desired. The equipment charge will appear on the first bill along with any corresponding and offsetting instant credits. Laptop users and some desktop users may need to purchase an Ethernet card. Billing begins on service activation date. Service not available in all areas. Subject to change without notice. Acceptance of Terms of Service required. Taxes and additional fees extra. Other restrictions apply.
SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) is a Fortune 50 company whose subsidiaries, operating under the SBC brand, provide a full range of voice, data, networking, e-business, directory publishing and advertising, and related services to businesses, consumers and other telecommunications providers. SBC holds a 60 percent ownership interest in Cingular Wireless, which serves more than 24 million wireless customers. SBC companies provide high-speed DSL Internet access lines to more American consumers than any other provider and are among the nation's leading providers of Internet services. SBC companies also now offer satellite TV service. Additional information about SBC and SBC products and services is available at www.sbc.com.
Yahoo! Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked Internet destination worldwide.
Yahoo!, the Yahoo! logos and other product and service names are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. SBC, the SBC logos and other related product and service names are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of SBC Knowledge Ventures, L.P. All other brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (C) 2004 SBC Knowledge Ventures, L.P. and Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Contacts
SBC Communications Inc.
Joe Izbrand, 210-352-6973
jizbrand@sbcnews.us
or
Yahoo! Inc.
Nicole Leverich, 408-349-5583
nicolewl@yahoo-inc.com
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