Friday, September 27
The Tufts Daily ran a feature on JumboCast in their 9/26 issue; the story is available here.

Saturday, September 21
Welcome to Tufts Football on JumboCast!

We'd like to welcome everyone to JumboCast for today's webcast of Tufts' 2002 season opener against Hamilton.

Unfortunately, as of early this morning, it appears that today's game will NOT be simulcast on Tufts' radio WMFO. (Feel free to double-check 91.5 on your FM dial, or wmfo.org, for game-time information.) If you hoped to listen to today's game that way, trust us when we say that we would be as disappointed as you would be if the simulcast does not happen — we have enjoyed bringing you Tufts football on WMFO since 1990, and the interruption of such a long tradition would sadden us immensely.

However, we are pleased to be presenting the game — in much higher fidelity — over JumboCast. Please bear with us, though, should we encounter any problems during the afternoon. Specifically, the media server from which we will present today's game has a fixed number of licenses. Should we get a larger crowd than we expect, some of you may have trouble accessing the stream. If this happens, please send us an e-mail at info@jumbocast.net and let us know. We apologize in advance, and will try and correct this situation for next week's game.

In addition (although it's probably cold comfort if you are unable to listen to the game live), the webcast will appear in the archive section of JumboCast, approximately 2-3 hours after the webcast ends. (A perfect way to spend your Saturday night. :-)

Anyway, thanks for being patient with us, and enjoy today's game!

Monday, August 19
Fall 2002 Schedule Announced

JumboCast is pleased to announce its fall 2002 schedule. We'll be broadcasting all eight Tufts football games, as well as men's and women's soccer, volleyball and field hockey games. For fans of the other Tufts varsity sports, don't worry — we're hoping to have coaches and players from each sport join us on SportsChat, our weekly talk show.

Friday, July 19
Introducing JumboCast Classic (Which Probably Needs A Better Name)

Here's the first in a series of rebroadcasts of old Tufts games from the archives. We start off with one of the most memorable wins in recent Tufts sports history: the women's soccer team's victory over Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the 2000 NCAA Division III national semi-finals, in a game played at Tufts on November 18, 2000. The whole broadcast is here, but if you're the kind of person that eats dessert first, you can go right to Lynn Cooper's overtime goal here.

PLEASE NOTE: The original source of this broadcast was an analog telephone line, and so it does not sound as good as many of our JumboCast broadcasts. Please keep this in mind while listening to the game.

Thursday, July 11

Hope everyone is enjoying his or her summer... we're in the process of determining the fall 2002 JumboCast schedule, which we hope to have finalized in the next six weeks or so. Keep checking back for updates! In the meantime, if you want to relive any of the moments from the JumboCast's first season, check out the archive section.
Come help us out! See how in the contribute section.

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

Harwich, Here We Come!
JumboCast is pleased to announce that it will carry all of Tufts' games in the 2002 NCAA Division III New England Baseball Regional from Harwich, MA, beginning Thursday night (pregame 6:30 p.m., first pitch scheduled for 7 p.m.), when the #3 seed Jumbos take on #4 Brandeis. The Jumbos will play a second game on Friday — at either 3:30 p.m. or at 7 p.m., depending on how they fare on Thursday night.

For more information on the tournament, see the ECAC press release or the NCAA Championships site.

Thursday, April 18, 2002

The spring 2002 schedule is ready — we will be starting with the April 19 Tufts baseball game against Trinity. We're excited to be presenting live broadcasts of Tufts spring sports for the first time in many, many years (and quite likely, ever). As always during this pilot period, hang with us if we run into any technical problems, as we try and bring you as much Tufts spring sports action as we can!

Thursday, February 21, 2002

Okay, So I Should Have Said, 'The Ill-Advised, Ill-Prepared Leap That Actually Went Backward'
Well, if you tried to access the live webcast of Tuesday night's game, or wound up communicating with me via Instant Messenger, you know the whole thing was a catastrophic failure. I'm disappointed and embarrassed — it's the first time in twelve years that I've travelled to a game and not been able to broadcast some of it live. I can summarize it as unexpected network issues and hubris; if you want more info than that, you can click the link. I did capture video (and audio) of the second half; that has finally made it to the archive page. Be warned, however, that this is the work of someone who was a) calling the game, b) running the video camera and, most-time-consumingly, c) giving live score updates via IM. And doing none of the three particularly well. Ah, well. Again, my apologies. It can only get better from here...

Tuesday, February 19, 2002

The Great, Brave Leap Forward
Well, we're going to try to broadcast video of tonight's NESCAC Men's Basketball Tournament first-round game between Tufts and Williams (note the revised tip-off time of 8 p.m.). Video is really uncharted waters for us (and we will be taking the minimalist approach with just one camera), so we ask you all to please bear with us if anything goes awry. We're hoping that no matter what, you will be able to hear the game well, even if you can't see it. As always, if you use AOL Instant Messenger, you can IM us at 'jumbocast' and tell us what you see (or don't).

You will probably have difficulty seeing clear, continuous video if you are connected via a 56Kbps modem; Real does its best to compress the video down all teeny-tiny-like so that it can travel through the lower bandwidth to a regular phone-line modem, but it may not work well enough to be satisfying. But hey, go ahead and try it anyway — we'd love to know if it looks passable on a 56K modem.

One last note: the Tufts RealServer that we are using does have a maximum number of streams that it supports (it's somewhere between 60-90). If you have problems accessing JumboCast's stream tonight, we will be simulcasting on Tufts Community Radio WMFO (91.5 FM); you can listen by regular radio if you're within reception range, or you can listen to 'MFO over the web (this is getting kinda complicated; it's a webcast of a radio transmission of a webcast!) by going here.

Enjoy the game!

Thursday, January 17, 2002
We're getting ready to start our "beta" phase on Saturday (see the schedule), where we publicize the site and our webcasts, stress-test the infrastructure, and generally try to work out all the bugs as quickly as we can. We did a "dress-rehearsal" broadcast of Tufts men's basketball on Tuesday night, which was a little slow to get going (strictly from the 'audio quality' perspective, mind you — the broadcasters and the Jumbos both did a splendid job). It's archived in the archive section.

If you want to try and access one of the streams — either live or archived — make sure you have visited the setup page, and verified that you have all the appropriate software.

We'll be publicizing this more over the next few weeks, but keep in mind — we'd love to have you help us! Check the contribute section to see more.

Thanks go out to the following folks for helping us get off the ground:

• Todd Bloniarz
• Brad Feldman
• Bill Gehling
• Neal Hirsig
• Jim McHugh
• Aaron Read
• Paul Sweeney

Special thanks, as always, to Kristen Clay.