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Internet television service Joost and TOM Group Limited, one of the leading Chinese media conglomerates in Greater China, today launched a joint venture to bring a full Joost offering to the region of Greater China.
Set up by Kazaa and Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, Joost burst onto the scene in the United [...]
Joost just released version 1.1.8 of it Windows and OSX client. Again, there is apparently nothing visible at this point with the client.
Joost is said to be releasing a web based version of the client later this summer… so within the next couple of weeks… most likelly in time for back to school I guess.
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Any follower of pop culture knows that the next Batman movie – The Dark Knight – is opening on Friday in the U.S. (and on various dates throughout the next month around the rest of the world). To get ready for the movie (which is actually the first movie this summer I’ve been excited about…but I digress) Warner Bros. has given us three animated Batman series – Batman Beyond, Batman: The Animated Series, and The Batman – in the U.S.
As a special treat, we have enlisted the help of some bona fide Batman fans to share their can’t miss moments from their favorite shows. Continue reading Batman Week begins on Joost
NEW YORK – FEBRUARY 22, 2008 – CollegeHumor (www.collegehumor.com), the definitive source for irreverent student humor and leading online source of original comedy videos, today announced that it will bring its high-quality CHTV original videos to Joost™ (www.joost.com), the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service.
CollegeHumor’s CHTV original videos will be made available on Joost through the [...]
NEW YORK – December 17, 2007 – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Joost™ today announced the launch of the NBA Channel on Joost, the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service. The new channel will provide fans around the world with viewing access to “Instant Classic” NBA games and video highlight packages for the remainder of the 2007-08 NBA season.
As part of the new relationship, the NBA Channel will feature complete replays of memorable NBA games, including the Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game against the Toronto Raptors on January 22, 2006, and the Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James’ sensational performance in Game 5 of the 2007 Eastern Conference Finals against the Detroit Pistons, in which he scored the Cavaliers’ final 25 points to lead his team to a 109-107 double-overtime victory.
“The NBA is always looking to further engage our fans around the world and expand our digital offerings with innovative products like Joost,” said Attila Gazdag, senior vice president of global media distribution for the NBA. “With the new NBA Channel on Joost, we offer our fans yet another platform to experience all the action of the NBA in a full-screen, high-quality environment.”
Continue reading NBA “Instant Classic” Games and Highlights to be Featured on Joost
Movie channel Film24 has announced a distribution agreement with online video site Joost.
The new service went live on 6 December with Film24 providing six hours of new content to Joost each month.
Both sides have said they will be working closely with the service to tailor forthcoming programming to its audience’s demands.
Andrew Burns, chief operating officer of [...]
FM2007 PREVIEW: All3Media-owned UK indie North One Television is expanding its relationship with internet TV service Joost after receiving “surprising” returns from the start-up’s first ad revenue pay-outs to its content partners.
North One has created channels on Joost based around motoring magazine programme Fifth Gear and The Gadget Show, both of which it produces for UK [...]
SAN FRANCISCO – UNDERGROUNDFILM announced today that it has launched on Joost™ (www.joost.com), the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service.
Undergroundfilm’s (UGF) Joost channels feature animation, shorts and feature films. The content for the channels is provided by UGF’s partner filmmakers, hundreds of talented people committed to serious film who have contributed to UGF’s library of over [...]
“Friends” could soon be buddying up to Hulu. Warner Bros. Television is in active negotiations with the News Corp.-NBC joint-venture to make a slew of WBTV content available on Hulu, execs confirmed Friday. “It’s more likely than not that we’re going to make a deal,” WB Television Group president Bruce Rosenblum said in an [...]
Chello Zone (formerly Zonemedia) announced it will supply further content from its channel bouquet to Joost. Programmes from Zone Reality and Zone Horror will now be available on Joost in addition to content from Extreme Sports Channel.
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, Executive Vice President, Content Strategy and Acquisition for Joost commented in a prepared statement, “We are delighted [...]