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title: Janson Partners with Twitch on Launch of New Food Channel
date: 2016-03-29T10:51:00-05:00
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# Janson Partners with Twitch on Launch of New Food Channel 

Janson Media today announced that it has partnered with the live-streaming video platform [Twitch.tv](http://twitch.tv/) to curate content for its new vertical, a channel dedicated to food and cooking. The channel launched with a four-day live-streaming marathon of the classic public television cooking show, *The French Chef,* starring the inimitable Julia Child. The show was produced from 1963 to 1973 by Boston's WGBH-TV for the National Educational Network, the precursor to PBS.

To mark the day Julia Child graduated from the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris (65 years ago, in 1951), Twitch.tv began live-streaming all 201 episodes of the show at 2:00pm PT on Wednesday, March 15th. Twitch is the world"s [leading social video platform](http://twitchadvertising.tv/traffic/) and community for gamers, with 100 million unique users and over 20 billion minutes viewed per month. The company chose *The French Chef* to mark its launch of its [new channel](https://www.twitch.tv/food). As it did last Fall with the launch of the [Bob Ross channel on Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/bobross), Twitch asked Janson Media to help them secure the rights to the classic television show. Janson turned to their good friends at [PBS](http://www.pbs.org/) to make it happen.

Check out the official [Twitch announcement](https://blog.twitch.tv/julia-child-marathon-introducing-twitch-tv-food-with-a-marathon-of-the-french-chef-77939adf3919#.ohnv2ps5o) and visit the [Twitch Food Channel](http://www.twitch.tv/food) itself to join the fun.

For more information about the classic television series, read the [wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Chef) or read more about [Julia Child at wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child). For all things Julia visit the website of the [Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts](http://www.juliachildfoundation.org/).

Read some of the press reaction to the story on these websites:

Nick Wingfield for the [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/technology/julia-child-marathon-to-stream-on-twitch-in-bet-on-prerecorded-content.html)Paresh Dave for the [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-twitch-food-20160315-snap-htmlstory.html)Spencer Soper for [Bloomberg Business](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-15/amazon-s-weapon-to-fight-youtube-tv-chef-julia-child)Hayley Tsukayama for the [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/03/15/twitch-celebrates-a-new-full-time-food-channel-with-a-julia-child-marathon/)James Vincent for [The Verge](http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/15/11232744/twitch-food-channel-launch-julia-child)Todd Spangler for [Variety](http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/twitch-julia-child-french-chef-1201729347/)Oliver Gettell for [Entertainment Weekly](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/15/twitch-julia-child-marathon)Brett Molina for [USA Today](http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2016/03/15/twitch-launching-food-channel-julia-child-marathon/81816718/)Emily Reynolds for [Wired](http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-03/15/twitch-food-cooking-channel-julia-child) Nick Summers for [Engadget](http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/15/twitch-food-channel-french-chef/)Dana Hatic for [Eater](http://www.eater.com/2016/3/15/11235796/stream-julia-child-the-french-chef)Chelsea Stark for [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2016/03/15/twitch-pairs-gaming-with-food-with-a-4-day-julia-child-marathon/#5zMa5l2leGqt)Dale Berning Sawa for the [Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/16/fancy-a-four-day-food-show-binge-look-no-further-julia-child-cooking-tv)Melonyce McAfee and Katia Hetter for [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/16/living/julia-child-twitch-feat/index.html)Nina Zipkin for [Entrepreneur](http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272514)Monica Nickelsburg for [Geekwire](http://www.geekwire.com/2016/twitch-launches-247-food-channel-with-julia-child-marathon/)Amanda Connolly for [The Next Web](http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2016/03/15/twitch-food-channel/)Joan E. Solsman for [The Wrap](https://www.thewrap.com/julia-child-twitch-marathon-to-launch-food-channel/)Sarah Perez for [Techcrunch](http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/15/twitch-to-stream-julia-childs-cooking-show-to-kick-off-launch-of-new-food-channel/)Mathew Ingram for [Fortune](http://fortune.com/2016/03/15/twitch-pre-recorded/)