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FORM 4
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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
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 Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of
1940
(Print or Type Responses)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Issuer Name AND Ticker or
Trading Symbol 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
DIGITAL GENERATION SYSTEMS, INC. (Check all applicable)
LENIHAN, JR. LAWRENCE D.
DGIT X Director 10% Owner
(Last) (First) (Middle) 3. IRS or Social Security 4. Statement for
Officer (giveX Other (specify
Number of Reporting Month/Year title below) below)1
C/O DAWSON-SAMBERG CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC. Person (Voluntary)
____________________________
354 PEQUOT AVENUE 8/98
(Street) 5 If Amendment, 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
(Check Applicable Line)
Date of Original XForm filed by One Reporting Person
(Month/Year) Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
SOUTHPORT CT 06490
(City) (State) (Zip) TABLE I - NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED,
DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
1. Title of Security 2. Trans- 3. Trans- 4. Securities
Acquired (A) 5. Amount of 6. Owner- 7. Nature
(Instr. 3) action action or Disposed of (D)
Securities ship of
Date Code (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially
Form: Indirect
(Instr. 8) Owned at Direct (D) or
Bene-
(Month/ End of Month ficial
Day/ (Instr. 3 and 4) Indirect
Owner-
Year) (A) or (I) ship
Code V Amount (D) Price
(Instr. 4) (Instr. 4)
COMMON STOCK, NO PAR VALUE 8/14/98 P 1,553,571(2)
(A) $2.80/SHARE
COMMON STOCK, NO PAR VALUE 8/14/98 C 2,777,225(2)
(A) N/A
TOTAL 4,330,796(2) (I)
INVESTMENT ADVISER
FORM 4 (CONTINUED) TABLE II - DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF,
OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Conver- 3. Trans- 4.
Transac- 5. Number of Deri- 6. Date Exer- 7.
Title and Amount of 8. Price 9. Number 10. Owner- 11.
Na-
(Instr. 3) sion or action tion Code vative Securities
cisable and Underlying Securities of of Deriv-ative
ship ture
Exercise Date (Instr. 8) Acquired (A) or
Expiration (Instr. 3 and 4) Deriv- Secur- Form
of In-direct Bene-ficial
Price (Month/ Disposed of (D) Date
ative ities of De-rivative Secu- Own-ership
of Day/ (Instr. 3, 4, and 5) (Month/Day/
Secur- Bene-ficially Owned rity:
Deriva-tive Year) Year)
ity Direct
Security (Instr. 5)
at End (D)
or (Instr. 4)
Date Exer- Expira-tion Amount
of Indi-
Title or Number
Month rect (I)
Code V (A) (D) Cisable Date
of Shares (Instr. 4) (Instr. 4)
SERIES A CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK 8/14/98 C
2,524,752 IMMEDIATE COMMON SHARES, NO PAR VALUE
2,777,225 (2) (3) 3.535 0 (I)
INVESTMENT ADVISER
Explanation of Responses: (1) THE REPORTING PERSON IS A MEMBER OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ISSUER AND IS AN EMPLOYEE OF DAWSON-SAMBERG CAPITAL
MANAGEMENT, INC., A REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISER THAT HAS VOTING POWER AND
INVESTMENT POWER WITH RESPECT TO SECURITIES IN ITS CLIENTS' ACCOUNTS,
INCLUDING SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREON.
(2) THE REPORTING PERSON DISCLAIMS BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF THESE SECURITIES,
AND THIS REPORT SHALL NOT BE DEEMED AN ADMISSION THAT THE REPORTING PERSON IS
THE BENEFICIAL OWNER OF SUCH SECURITIES FOR PURPOSES OF RULE 16A-1(A)(1) OR
(A)(2) OR FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE.
(3) THESE COMMON SHARES WERE ISSUED UPON THE CONVERSION OF
SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK AND ARE REFLECTED IN TABLE I HERETO.
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal
Criminal Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15. U.S.C. 78ff(a).
/s/ Lawrence D. Lenihan, Jr. 8/27/98
**Signature of Reporting Person Date
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space is insufficient,
see Instruction 6 for procedure.
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