JumboCast

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JumboCast.com specializes in broadcasting and streaming live webcasts for Tufts University events, including university-related athletic events and lectures hosted by the University. It is currently Tufts University's only streaming web content provider. JumboCast streamed over 75 events for 2004-2005, completed over 85 events in 2005-2006, and is on pace to do over 50 events in 2006-2007. JumboCast has seen most of its growth recently, setting new viewership records in October 2005 (386 stream hits) and then again in February of 2006. JumboCast's current viewership record - 1,258 total stream hits for a single webcast, in March 2006 featuring Tufts men's basketball vs. Amherst College in the NCAA Division-III tournament "Sweet-16" round - is more than three times that of JumboCast's 2005 October record.

JumboCast's streams are available free using the Windows Media streaming format on JumboCast's webpage. Most streams contain both video and audio coverage.

[edit] JumboCast.com History

JumboCast is currently a Tufts University recognized student-organization, founded in 2001 by Tufts alum Steve Clay. It was initially founded by Clay as a means to continue coverage of Tufts football games, which he had done via Tufts University radio station WMFO since the early 1990s. Under Clay, JumboCast grew to include coverage of most Tufts sports, including baseball, softball, men's and women's lacrosse, field hockey, men's and women's basketball and volleyball. JumboCast became an officially-recognized student group of Tufts University during the 2005-2006 school year, and was the recipient of the 2006 Tufts University Evergreen Award, awarded annually by the Office of Student Activities to the top new student-group.

JumboCast has in the past been contracted by the University to stream and archive campus lectures and forums by a number of prominent individuals. They have also created several videography pieces that have been featured on the Tufts University webpage. JumboCast's current General Manager is Tufts Junior, Steve Poon.

[edit] Notable JumboCast.com events

March 2003, Tufts' pitcher Jon Lee's no-hitter vs. Bates College
March 2006, Tufts vs. Amherst, NCAA Division-III men's basketball tournament "Sweet 16"
March 2006, Richard E. Snyder Presidential Lecture, featuring Sir Tim Berners-Lee
April 2006, Edward R. Murrow Symposium, featuring Ted Koppel as moderator
April 2006, Tufts University Dean's Forum, featuring Daniel Dennett