JumpTV Inc. was a Canadian company, and one of the country's largest

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carriers until its acquisition by NeuLion in 2008.

History

JumpTV was formed as an internet television company in 2000. It was limited in the services it could retransmit, namely foreign third-language services for which it has secured the necessary web rights. In June 2005, JumpTV had about 30 TV stations online, a staff of 5 which included Farrel Miller (CEO and Founder), Dan O'Hara (CTO), and Mizan Chowdhury (Technical Support Manager). Chairman G. Scott Paterson raised venture capital and started investing in upgrading the infrastructure. In August 2006, the

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granted JumpTV's application for the original listing in the Industrial category of 42,902,092 common shares. In February 2007, JumpTV announced a US$100 million Common Share Offering of 13,043,479 common shares. At its peak the company provided content from more than 270 television broadcasters from over 70 countries, with the channels being available on the JumpTV

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. JumpTV only supported the Windows Media format, and also had no official Macintosh support though some users were able to connect and view programming through Flip4Mac and QuickTime in Mac OS X. JumpTV had offices in the

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and

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. JumpTV merged with NeuLion Inc in June 2008. Founded in 2004, NeuLion Inc provides web-based IPTV services to sports customers such as the National Hockey League and the International Fight League. Charles Wang, the founder and former CEO of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders was named Chairman of the merged company while Paterson was appointed its Executive Vice-Chairman. Charles Wang's wife, Nancy Li, was appointed CEO as well as a Director.

Sports sites

JumpTV had a division based in

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which hosted the official

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s of a number of professional and college sports organizations. Among them were the

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, the

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and

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. These websites also provided for live video and audio coverage.

References

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