Falco predicts AOL will be great again

AOL CEO RANDY Falco is not down at his outfit's fall from the dizzy heights of the internet stage. He says if he has learned a few things from his days as the president of NBC Universal's television group, he can make the ISP great again.

According to here Falco held a shin-dig in New York to show off new interactive programming for Madison Avenue advertising executives. The company touted new tie-ins with TV shows and the summer movie release Shrek the Third. Falco reckons that if AOL runs a bit more like a telly station it will hit the big time, although telly stations are not doing that well lately either.

However he said that his TV experience taught him that new shows bring in new viewers and help create excitement - an approach he felt could do wonders for AOL.

One thing that he has done is improve the really useless news service that AOL had. When Anna Nicole Smith croaked every cable TV news network had it before AOL.

He said that one of the problems he had was making advertisers see that it was not the old ISP who used to flog service connections using illions of free disks. µ

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Falco, the Viennese funk-rapper of the iconic 80's ditty 'Rock Me Amadeus' was killed in a collision with a bus near the resort of Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic on February 6, 1998. Ironically the members of the German funk band Trio, who were rumoured to have been killed in a car crash on the German autobahn after their single 'Da, Da, Da', charted world wide, are alive and well. Amadeus Mozart is a decomposing composer in his unmarked grave and hasn't cut a single for ages.