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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
(Print or Type Responses) Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Date of Event Re- 4. Issuer Name AND Ticker or Trading Symbol
quiring Statement
Francis, Jr. James B. (Month/Day/Year) FlashNet Communications, Inc. (FLAS)
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(Last) (First) (Middle) 03/____/99 5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) 6. If Amendment, Date
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3. IRS or Social Se- X Director 10% Owner (Month/Day/Year)
curity Number of ---- ----
2911 Turtle Creek, Suite 925 Reporting Person Officer (give Other (specify ---------------------
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(Street) ---- ---- Joint/Group Filing
(Check Applicable
Line)
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X Reporting Person
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Form filed by
More than One
Reporting Person
Dallas Texas 75219 ---
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(City) (State) (Zip) TABLE I -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial
(Instr. 4) Beneficially Owned Form: Direct Ownership (Instr. 5)
(Instr. 4) (D) or Indirect
(I) (Instr. 5)
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over)
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, SEE Instruction 5(b)(v). SEC 1473 (7-96)
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FORM 3 (CONTINUED) TABLE II - DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED (E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE
SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date Exer- 3. Title and Amount of Securities 4. Conver- 5. Owner- 6. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) cisable and Underlying Derivative Security sion or ship Beneficial
Expiration (Instr. 4) Exercise Form of Ownership
Date Price of Deriv- (Instr. 5)
(Month/Day/ Deri- ative
Year) vative Security:
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Amount (D) or
Date Expir- or Indirect
Exer- ation Title Number (I)
cisable Date of
Shares (Instr. 5)
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Director Stock Option (1) 12/11/08 Common Stock 15,980 $8.82 D
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Explanation of Responses:
/s/ A. Lee Thurburn March 12, 1999
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(1) The option vests 1/4 on 12/11/00, 1/2 on 12/11/01 and 3/4 on 12/11/02. **Signature of Reporting Person Date
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations.
SEE 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient,
SEE Instruction 6 for procedure.
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained in this form are not
required to respond unless the form displays a currently valid OMB Number.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints Albert Lee Thurburn his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:
(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, any and all reports
of beneficial ownership of securities on Forms 3, 4 and 5 required to be filed
by the undersigned in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;
(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
reports of beneficial ownership of securities on Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely file
such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and
(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with
the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit
to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his or
her discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his
substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of
this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The
undersigned acknowledges that no such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such
capacity at the request of the undersigned, is hereby assuming, nor is FlashNet
Communications, Inc. hereby assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities
to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms reports of beneficial ownership
of securities on 3, 4 and 5 with respect to holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by FlashNet Communications, Inc., unless earlier revoked by
the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this 12th day of March, 1999.
/s/ James B. Francis, Jr.
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James B. Francis, Jr.
STATE OF TEXAS )
) ss
COUNTY OF DALLAS )
On March 12th, before me, Sheri D. Welch, Notary Public, personally
appeared JAMES B. FRANCIS, JR. , personally known to me (or proved to me on
the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person whose name is subscribed
to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same in
his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the
person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the
instrument.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
{Seal} /s/ Sheri D. Welch
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