US College Football BCS Bowl Games Available Live on the Internet to the International Community
Market Wire, December, 2007
JumpTV Inc. (AIM: JTV) (TSX: JTV), a leader in streaming premier sports events and international television over the Internet, announced today a partnership with FOX Sports that enables the Company to carry the network's four Bowl Championship Series football game broadcasts to fans around the world.
The agreement affords college football fans around the world, for the first time in history, the opportunity to watch Bowl Championship Series games through the Internet. These games will be available to viewers in far away places such as England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, the Middle East, Hong Kong and China and everywhere else outside of the United States with the exception of certain Latin American countries.
The games will be available for purchase through http://bcsfootball.jumptv.com or http://jumptv.com individually for US$19.95 or as a US$39.95 four-game package. The streams will be provided by JumpTV utilizing direct feeds from FOX Sports' critically acclaimed sports production team.
Teams Date Time
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Allstate Sugar Hawai'i Warriors January 1, 2008 8:00 p.m. EST
Bowl and
Georgia Bulldogs
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Tostitos Fiesta West Virginia January 2, 2008 8:00 p.m. EST
Bowl Mountaineers and
Oklahoma Sooners
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FedEx Orange Kansas Jayhawks January 3, 2008 8:00 p.m. EST
Bowl and the Virginia
Tech Hokies
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Allstate BCS LSU Tigers and January 7, 2008 8:00 p.m. EST
Championship Ohio State Buckeyes
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Nada Usina, President of JumpTV Sports said, "US ex-pats are incredibly passionate about their alma mater and we are delighted to offer these exciting bowl games to US college football fans around the world. This agreement between JumpTV and FOX Sports is truly pioneering as it is the first time in history that BCS Bowl Games will be available to viewers through the Internet in most countries outside of the United States."
Not Available in Certain Areas
Due to rights issues the games will not be available on the Internet in Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Barbuda, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Caymen Islands, Colombia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guyana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guiana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama (excluding Canal Zone), Puerto Rico, Saint Marten, Suriname, Trinidad, United States, Venezuela, British Virgin Islands and Windward Islands.
About JumpTV Sports
A division of JumpTV Inc. (AIM: JTV) (TSX: JTV), JumpTV Sports connects fans to their favorite teams, athletes and leagues from collegiate, professional and international sports organizations around the world. The company offers live and video-on-demand streaming of sports matches as well as custom-branded site design and web hosting, e-commerce solutions, online ticketing, mobile distribution capabilities and social networking technologies.
About FOX Sports
As America's top-rated network for sports for the 10th-straight year (1997-2006), FOX Sports boasts rights agreements with each of the nation's highest-rated sports. FOX Sports is the exclusive national over-the-air television rights holder of Major League Baseball, including the All-Star Game, alternating league Championship Series and World Series (2007-2013); the National Football League's NFC package, including the NFC Championship Game and Super Bowls XLII and XLV (2006-2011); NASCAR'S NEXTEL Cup racing from February through May, including the Daytona 500 (2007-2014); the Bowl Championship Series, featuring the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, FedEx Orange Bowl, Allstate Sugar Bowl from 2007 through 2010 and the new BCS Classic. Since its inception in 1994, FOX Sports has earned 71 Emmy Awards for production excellence. David Hill and Ed Goren are the Executive Producers of FOX Sports.
Contact: Lewis Goldberg KCSA (212) 896-1216 Email Contact Nada Usina President JumpTV Sports (407) 936-0809 Email Contact Dan Bell FOX Sports (310) 369-6326 Email Contact
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