JumpTV

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JumpTV Inc. (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 270 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,Colombia and Dubai.

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 Mac OS X. However, this seems to be limited to PowerPC based Macintoshes, as attempts at viewing with Intel-based Macs have been unsatisfactory.

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. G Scott Paterson, Chairman of JumpTV raised a significant amount of venture capital and started investing in upgrading the infrastructure and the augmenting the staff.

On August 2006, Toronto Stock Exchange granted JumpTV application for the original listing in the Industrial category of 42,902,092 common shares.

In February 2007, JumpTV announced US$100 Million Common Share Offering of 13,043,479 common shares at a price of C$9.00 per common share.

In June 2008, JumpTV announced merger with NeuLion. Founded in 2004, NeuLion provides web-based IPTV services to leading sports customers such as the National Hockey League and the International Fight League. NeuLion also delivers a Set Top Box IPTV solution to premier international customers. Charles Wang, the founder and former CEO of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders and husband of Nancy Li – will become Chairman of the merged company. Mr. Paterson, will be Executive Vice-Chairman and Ms. Li will become CEO and a Director.

Subscription Services

Each of the channels is offered on a monthly or yearly subscriber basis.

Sports sites

JumpTV also has a division based in Sanford, Florida, USA which hosts the official websites of a number of professional and college sports organizations. Among them are the Arena Football League, the University of Colorado, Arkansas State University and Ohio State University. These websites also provide for live video and audio coverage.

The college sites can be accessed through the website College Sports Direct.

References

• Bennett, Jessica (2006-12-25). "Taking TV to The Internet". Newsweek (MSNBC). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16241596/site/newsweek/. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. 
• Lieberman, David (2006-04-07). "Media tune in to ethnic audiences". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2006-04-07-ethnic-media-usat_x.htm. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. 
• "Iraqi TV shows to hit the Net". ZDNet (Reuters). 2006-01-24. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6030277.html. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. 

External links

• Official Site