JumpTV Provides International Content to Joost

TORONTO, March 2: Broadband IPTV service JumpTV, which delivers
a slate of foreign-language content, has inked a deal to make a “significant
portion” of its VOD offerings available on the new Joost platform.

JumpTV currently broadcasts news, entertainment, music and
sports content from 270 channels in more than 70 countries on a subscription-
and advertising-supported basis.

The content will be presented under JumpTV-branded channels
on Joost. The first will feature Spanish-language series from Colombia, Chile
and Peru, in addition to Arabic-language comedy, drama and news programs from
some of the leading broadcasters in the Middle East. JumpTV will be adding new
programming on a daily or weekly basis, and intends to launch several more
channels on Joost in other languages, including Romanian, Turkish, Russian and
Bengali, among others.

Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, the president and CEO of JumpTV
International, noted: "We see Joost as a unique and important
distribution/programming partner. Like us, the Joost team innately understands
the power of viral, high-affinity long-tail content—for example, JumpTV's
ethnic TV programming. Given the track record of the Joost founders, we believe
that the Joost platform could be as transformational for online television as
their previous ventures have been."