JumpTV
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| JumpTV, Inc. | |
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| Type | Public TSX: JTV.TO |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Canada |
| Industry | Ethnic Online TV |
| Website | www.jumptv.com |
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[edit] Overview
JumpTV TSX: JTV, is a Canadian public company, the country's largest internet television carrier. JumpTV operates at the intersection of two growth sectors: Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and ethnic media services. The main concept is re-connects culturally diverse individuals with media from their native land and to others in their community.
JumpTV is limited in the services it can retransmit, namely foreign third-language services for which it has secured the necessary web rights with more than 200 television broadcasters from over 70 countries. The channels are available on the JumpTV content delivery network (CDN)
JumpTV has offices in the United States, Canada, London, Singapore and Dubai.
JumpTV only support high-speed connections (Cable, ADSL, DSL or ISDN) to allows viewers to receive a picture at up to 30 frames per second, which is comparable to conventional television. So far, JumpTV supports the Windows Media format only. It also has no official Macintosh support, but some users have been able to connect and view programming through Flip4Mac and Quicktime in OS X. However, this seems to be limited to PowerPC based Macintoshes, as attempts at viewing with Intel-based Macs have been unsatisfactory.
[edit] History
In June, 2005, 5 years after its inception, JumpTV had about 22 TV stations online, a staff of 3 which included Farell Miller (CEO and co-founder), Dan O'Hara (CTO and co-founder), and Mizan Chowdhury (Technical Support Manager). For 5 years they had bootstrapped the business, spending almost no money and building the basis for what will hopefully become a business that changes the way people around the world consume international TV. Scott Paterson, current CEO of JumpTV raised a significant amount of venture capital and started investing in upgrading the infrastructure and the augmenting the staff.
On August of 2006, Toronto Stock Exchange granted JumpTV application for the original listing in the Industrial category of 42,902,092 common shares.
[edit] Ethnic Channels
JumpTV carries channels from 5 corners of the world:
- Channels from Africa
- Channels from Asia
- Channels from Europe
- Channels from the Middle East
- Channels from the Latin America
[edit] Subscription Services
Each of the channels is offered on a monthly or yearly subscriber basis.
[edit] References
- Bennett, Jessica. "Taking TV to The Internet", Newsweek, MSNBC, 2006-12-25. Retrieved on January 17, 2007.
- Lieberman, David. "Media tune in to ethnic audiences", USA Today, 2006-04-07. Retrieved on January 17, 2007.
- "Iraqi TV shows to hit the Net", ZDNet, Reuters, 2006-01-24. Retrieved on January 17, 2007.
