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Jasper Smith
Jasper Smith (born 1965) is an entrepreneur in the fields of television, interactive media and gaming. He is a director of PlayJam. Background Smith has co-founded and developed a number of businesses in the digital media sector including The Fantastic Corporation, Optimistic Entertainment plc (“The Optimistic Network”), and Static2358 / PlayJam. He is an investor or director of several other companies including General Media Ventures, an investment company, and Hutch, a UK based games studio behind popular mobile games such as SmashCops. PlayJam Static 2358 Ltd was a design and branding company set up by Jasper Smith and Mark Rock. The company created visual identities for numerous TV channels including Star TV, Channel 4, Film Four and Canal+, incubated TV networks such as YOYO and PlayJam and formed partnerships with agencies such as Saatchi and Saatchi. PlayJam became the world's largest TV games network before being acquired by Open TV in 2001 for $68 million. Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasper Smith
Jasper Smith (born 1965) is an entrepreneur in the fields of television, interactive media and gaming. He is a director of PlayJam. Background Smith has co-founded and developed a number of businesses in the digital media sector including The Fantastic Corporation, Optimistic Entertainment plc (“The Optimistic Network”), and Static2358 / PlayJam. He is an investor or director of several other companies including General Media Ventures, an investment company, and Hutch, a UK based games studio behind popular mobile games such as SmashCops. PlayJam Static 2358 Ltd was a design and branding company set up by Jasper Smith and Mark Rock. The company created visual identities for numerous TV channels including Star TV, Channel 4, Film Four and Canal+, incubated TV networks such as YOYO and PlayJam and formed partnerships with agencies such as Saatchi and Saatchi. PlayJam became the world's largest TV games network before being acquired by Open TV in 2001 for $68 million. Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayJam
PlayJam is an interactive casual games network, that is available across digital TV, mobile, and online platforms.iStockAnalyst, 8 January 201Could PlayJam be the Biggest Thing in Gaming?/ref> The network emerged during the dawn of the digital TV era as a side project of London-based visual media company, Static 2358. Static's artists, designers, and programmers started producing casual games to work on set top boxes. PlayJam, which was launched in 1999 on CanalSat in France and Sky Digital in the UK, is one of the first ever interactive television broadcast channels. PlayJam quickly became one of the highest rated brands on digital TV, delivering interactive television services for clients such as the BBC, Glaxo SmithKline, pop band Gorillaz, ITV and Channel 4. Static and PlayJam were sold to Open TV for $68 million in 2001. The interactive games platform has since appeared on millions of digital TV homes throughout the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. Founder Jasper Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific
Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific Limited, (formerly Satellite Television Asian Region Limited (from 2001 trading as Star TV, stylised as STAR TV, and then as Star until 2009), subsequently Fox International Channels Asia Pacific Limited and Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific Limited), is a Hong Kong-based commercial broadcasting company operating multiple specialty television channels. The company is formerly part of the Fox Networks Group, and is currently owned by Disney International Operations since March 2019. Originally established by Hutchison Whampoa and later acquired by the original News Corporation, Star TV was once the prominent satellite television broadcaster in the entire Asia region. On 20 March 2019, following Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets, FNG Asia and Star India became a part of Disney, and FNG Asia Pacific merged with Disney Branded Television unit. DNG Asia Pacific's channels are available in East Asia and Southeast Asia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV (TV network), ITV. The network's headquarters are based in London and Leeds, with creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GameStick
The GameStick is a discontinued home video game console developed by PlayJam. It is a microconsole the size of a USB flash drive that plugs directly into the back of a TV through an HDMI port and ships with its own Bluetooth controller. Users can download content from a curated storefront via Wi-Fi, with content stored locally for offline access. The device is powered by the PlayJam Games Platform and runs its own version of the Android operating system. It is portable and aimed at casual to mid-core gamers. Like the Ouya, it was funded through Kickstarter. Because of a change in production methods, the original release date of June 2013 was delayed, and units did not ship to retailers until early November 2013. The GameStick features an exclusive game and access to its app store, which mainly sells casual games. All systems can be used as development kits, allowing any GameStick owner to also be a developer, without licensing fees. The GameStick is part of the eighth generati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adobe Inc
Adobe Inc. ( ), originally called Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American multinational computer software company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the creation and publication of a wide range of content, including graphics, photography, illustration, animation, multimedia/video, motion pictures, and print. Its flagship products include Adobe Photoshop image editing software; Adobe Illustrator vector-based illustration software; Adobe Acrobat Reader and the Portable Document Format (PDF); and a host of tools primarily for audio-visual content creation, editing and publishing. Adobe offered a bundled solution of its products named Adobe Creative Suite, which evolved into a subscription software as a service (SaaS) offering named Adobe Creative Cloud. The company also expanded into digital marketing software and in 2021 was considered one of the top global leaders in Customer Experience Manageme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tesco
Tesco plc () is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, England. In 2011 it was the third-largest retailer in the world measured by gross revenues and the ninth-largest in the world measured by revenues. It has shops in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. It is the market leader of groceries in the UK (where it has a market share of around 28.4%). Tesco has expanded globally since the early 1990s, with operations in 11 other countries in the world. The company pulled out of the US in 2013, but continues to see growth elsewhere. Since the 1960s, Tesco has diversified into areas such as the retailing of books, clothing, electronics, furniture, toys, petrol, software, financial services, telecoms and internet services. In the 1990s, Tesco re-positioned itself from being a downmarket high-volume low-cost retailer, attempting to attract a range of social groups with its low-cost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quiznation (UK Game Show)
{{unreferenced, date=June 2019 ''Quiznation'' is a television program on the British quiz channel by the same name that was owned and operated by Optimistic Entertainment. In its last year, it featured hours of gaming each day. ''Quiznation'' aired all week on Fortune Fever from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m featuring constant tower games. On 31 May 2007, ''Quiznation'' aired its last episode. About the Show ''Quiznation'' started in November 2003 on Sky channel 277. The channel was originally called Nation277. Shortly after launch, it was moved to channel 217 during an EPG reshuffle, and subsequently changed its name to Nation217. It helped launch the careers of Caroline Flack, Milo McCabe and Christian Manley and it had Brendan Sheppard as one of its main directors. Different interactive games were on for most of the day. Though under the larger banner of ''Gamenation'', Nation217 showed a variety of interactive programming including ''The Cash Vault'' and ''Dare''. Nation217 started to cea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport Nation
''Sport Nation'' is a magazine sports television programme produced by BBC Sport Scotland. The first edition was broadcast on BBC Two Scotland in March 2009 as ''Sport Monthly'', but was relaunched as ''Sport Nation'' in 2011. The programme is designed as a showcase for all levels of Scottish sport. Previous editions have also included interviews with some high-profile Scottish sportsmen and women in addition to popular and up-and-coming young sports stars. Features from each show are available to watch again on the show's website and the whole programme is available 7 days after transmission across the UK on the BBC iPlayer. Presenters Current reporters include Rhona McLeod, John Beattie, David Currie and Katie Still. See also * ''BBC Scotland'' * ''BBC Sport'' External links ''Sport Nation''at BBC Online * ''Sport Nation''on Twitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flipside TV
''Flipside TV'' was a television programme broadcast by Channel 4, Nation 277 and Paramount Comedy in the United Kingdom, which aired from 2003 to 2004. It was presented mainly by Richard Bacon (also the show's founder, and executive producer) and guest hosts, including Justin Lee Collins and Iain Lee. It was directed by Brendan Sheppard. The format was created by David Owen and Jay Pond-Jones based on an original idea by Chas Bayfield, which had been posted on the free ideas website Idea a Day. The show was broadcast live and included a presenter and three guests, each with their own television and digital satellite receiver. The guests would "flip" through the many hundreds of satellite channels looking for something interesting. If something interesting was found, whatever it was then broadcast live on the show with the guests providing their own mainly comic commentary. Before its disappearance, Flipside TV had a daily slot for two weeks on Channel 4, where it was normall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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