- GONG
"This article is about the Internet Protocol Television channel. For other meanings, see
Gong (disambiguation) ."GONG is an
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) channel, accessible throughoutEurope andNorth America , entirely dedicated toAnime [Babelgum Gets a GONG,12 July 2007 , [http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=128880] ] .GONG sets out to show, via Web, mobile
telephony ,Video on demand , andstreaming media , productions from Japanese studios.Brief history
GONG MEDIA is an Anime/Manga Channel brand www.gonganime.comdistributed internationally on new media platforms: Internet and mobile. Was Founded in
July 2006 by two childhood friends: André de Semlyen (one of the pioneers of TPS (France) and its kids' channelTeletoon , also behind the French launch of Warner's US cartoon channelCartoon Network ) and Benoît Runel (major player in int'l children television, former TF1 executive, who launched Fox Kids France in 1997Fox Kids /Jetix ) and became Executive VP Programming and Acquisitions at the European HQ in 2000 for Fox Kids Europe / Jetix Europe which belongs to Walt Disney Corp. GONG Media is a UK limited company with offices in London and Paris.GONG’s shareholding structure was reshaped in early 2008 giving Benoit Runel and Andre de Semlyen a majority control and opening up to new investors: Franck Davidovici, Philippe Bouchara, Bertrand Humblot and early partner production company Storiz.GONG's brand motto is "Anywhere, Anytime, Anime". Its specificities: to broadcast Japanese animation aiming at 15 to 24 years-old core target group (although the audience is in fact much broader going from 12 to 35 years-old)
Methods of accessing the content
Video on demand
GONG's content is available on a large number of online and mobile platforms across Europe and United States covering 42 countries and distribution over 500 episodes of High quality Anime. The service is available on ClubInternet, Orange, BT Vision, Joost, Babelgum, TF1 Vision, MSN video, Daily Motion, YouTube, T Mobile, Blinks, Vuze, Hulu.
Mobile telephony
At a time of widespread
3G usage, GONG is a partner of Orange [Orange & TV - Channels, [http://www1.orange.co.uk/entertainment/tv/gong.php] ] (in the UK and inPoland ), ofT-Mobile and others. Programs, and also sounds, images, video clips and wallpapers are available through this service.Internet
GONG's website displays videos, games and downloads related to the world of animation. Version 2 is in development and should enable GONG to broadcast from its own website.
Broadcast media
GONG is positioned in the main broadcast platforms that have emerged on internet over the past months, some of which, after several years of tests, are preparing their general public launch. Thus the founders of
Joost (Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, also founders ofKazaa andSkype ) and developers ofpeer to peer , have given GONG the ability to broadcast programs to 36 countries from a single IPTV platform, something made possible only by the internet and not possible on traditional satellite or cable TV. Joost is planned for launch in summer 2007. For now, a million beta testers can already watch GONGtv and select the GONG programs they wish to see.GONG is also present on the beta version of
Babelgum [Anime News Network: "Internet TV Startup to Add Slayers, More from Gong",12 July 2007 , [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-07-12/internet-tv-startup-to-add-slayers-more-from-gong] ] , a direct competitor of Joost and onYouTube which now makes it possible for channels to make videos available to visitors and thus complete episodes of series.ee also
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Joost
*Babelgum
*IPTV External links
* [http://www.gonganime.com GONG official site]
* [http://uk.youtube.com/user/Gong GONG on YouTube]References
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