!WOWOW!

!WOWOW! is a collective in Peckham, London. Otherwise known as The Children of !WOWOW!, they are a group of artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians, who have promoted numerous art events and parties in London and Berlin.

History

WOWOW! began in the back of the Joiners Arms in Camberwell in 2003 as a performance night in a pub by Hanna Hanra and Matthew Stone. In 2004, the collective squatted a large Victorian co-op in Peckham South East London and made it into an artist run space. They include fashion designer Gareth Pugh,performance artist Millie Brown, video installation artist Adham Faramawy, James Balmforth and artist Matthew Stone. Other artists to have shown in the spacebook profile it includes Boo Saville, Gareth Cadwallader, and Ellie Tobin.

In 2003, !WOWOW! organised warehouse parties in Peckham. At times club nights with 2000 people took place. One of these was attended by Lauren Bush, the former U.S. President's niece, and her two CIA bodyguards.

The second show by the collective in December 2004 was of paintings, film, photography and performance by recent Slade graduates for a month in the Georgian building at 251 Rye Lane, Peckham, formerly occupied by the Co-op shop, which the artists gutted and refurbished. The artists, who curated the exhibition together, included Chloe Dewe Mathews with photographs of lidos, Matthew Stone with digital recreations of old paintings, and Boo Saville with monkey paintings and biro drawings. The opening featured shamanistic chanting, a shopping Trolley Mardi Gras, live bands and a recreation of Michael Jackson's video Thriller by performance artist Lali Chetwynd's troupe.

WOWOW

WOWOW (株式会社WOWOW(ワウワウ、WOWOW Inc.) ) listed as TYO: 4839, is a private satellite broadcasting and pay-per-view television station in Japan. Its headquarters are located on the 21st floor of the Akasaka Park Building in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. Its broadcasting center is in Koto, Tokyo.

On October 1, 2011, WOWOW expanded their single channel broadcast satellite service to provide three high-definition TV channels:

Overview

WOWOW was the first 24/7, 3 channel, full high-definition broadcaster in Japan.

WOWOW began broadcasting in analog on April 1, 1991. Digital broadcasting began on December 1, 2000. The network began with 207,753 subscribers (31.5 billion yen in sales), growing to 2,667,414 two years later (64.5 billion yen in sales). As of December 2011, WOWOW claimed approximately 2.56 million subscribers to its digital service. On July 24, 2011, WOWOW shut down its analog broadcast.