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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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RENTRAK CORPORATION
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RENTRAK CORPORATION
One Airport Center
7700 N.E. Ambassador Place
Portland, Oregon 97220
TO SUPPORT YOUR BOARD - PLEASE VOTE ONLY THE WHITE PROXY CARD.
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PLEASE DISCARD ANY BLUE CARD YOU RECEIVE.
August 25, 2000
To Our Shareholders:
You may have recently received proxy solicitation materials from a shareholder
group led by Paul Rosenbaum. This dissident group is identifying itself as the
Committee for the Achievement of Rentrak Excellence and is opposed by your Board
of Directors. Among other things, this dissident group is attempting to solicit
your votes in support of their own nominees for election to the Rentrak Board.
Separately, Rentrak has sent you proxy solicitation materials and a WHITE PROXY
CARD.
TO ELECT RENTRAK'S NOMINEES TO THE BOARD
YOU MUST SIGN AND RETURN THE WHITE CARD
For reasons outlined in Rentrak's proxy materials, your Board does not think
that it is in your best interests to elect the dissident group's nominees.
Please review the materials that you receive carefully. Rentrak did NOT send
you the BLUE proxy card and we urge you NOT to return the BLUE card or respond
to those materials.
We urge you to SIGN, DATE AND RETURN ONLY THE WHITE CARD in order to vote for
the Rentrak nominees. If you wish to vote your WHITE proxy card as your Board of
Directors recommends, you do not need to check any of the boxes on the proxy
card and only need to SIGN, DATE AND RETURN THE WHITE CARD.
Please do not send back any blue card, even to vote against the dissident
group's nominees. Doing so will cancel your vote for your Board's nominees.
However, if you have returned a blue proxy card, please SIGN, DATE AND RETURN
THE ENCLOSED WHITE PROXY CARD. This will have the effect of revoking the blue
proxy card.
If you have any questions or require assistance in voting your WHITE proxy,
please call our proxy solicitor, Corporate Investor Communications, Inc., toll-
free at 1-888-560-9906 and ask for Bill Fiske.
Sincerely yours,
RENTRAK CORPORATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Your vote is extremely important to ensure that Rentrak maintains the
experienced and independent board and management already in place.
PLEASE SIGN AND RETURN THE WHITE PROXY CARD TODAY.
