Jack Perry

Jack Perry may refer to:

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Jack Perry (entrepreneur)

Jack Perry is the Founder and CEO of Syncbak,Inc., a media technology company, whose products and services power solutions for television broadcasters, including the CBS All Access app and a TV Everywhere solution for FOX networks. Syncbak is the first-ever mobile and tablet platform to integrate Nielsen measurement.

Prior to founding Syncbak, Perry was CEO of Decisionmark Corp (1996-2009) where his technology enabled satellite companies to provide distant network signals and local programming to their subscribers. He created his first software package, RunningCounts, in 1990.

Awards

Perry was inducted into the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers and was nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Industry Leadership) in 2004. He was elected to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2003 and was named one of Dealerscope's 40 most influential people under 40 in the consumer electronics industry that same year. In 2008, his TitanTV web studio won a Webby Award for Titan Greens, an edgy take on eco-news.

Zig and Zag (Australian performers)

Jack Perry (1917 – c. April 2006) and Doug McKenzie (c. 1917 – 4 August 2004)—were a clown duo from Melbourne who were known and billed professionally as Zig and Zag, who appeared on Australian television from its inception in 1956 to 1999 beginning with Peters Fun Fair. They featured on the annual Moomba parade and were regulars at the Good Friday Appeal for the Royal Children's Hospital.

In March 1999, the duo permanently parted company after it was revealed that Perry had been convicted in 1994 of indecent assault on his granddaughter.

History

Zig and Zag were the clown duo of Jack Perry and Doug McKenzie and began performing together in the 1950s in Melbourne. Before 1939, McKenzie was a junior announcer on Melbourne radio station 3XY. By 1952, he was voicing advertisements dressed as a clown with a young Bert Newton. This led to Zig and Zag regularly appearing on a Saturday morning children's show with Frank Thring. They worked alongside disc jockey Stan Rofe and Newton. In March 1956, they drove a toy car at their first Moomba parade and were crowd favourites at the annual festival. On 10 November, local TV station HSV7 broadcast the first episode of Peters Fun Fair, with the duo as its stars, it was the first children's session televised in Australia. They dressed in costumes advertising Peters Ice Cream, with the slogan, "the health food of a nation", and used the catchphrase "No-o-o trouble". Zig and Zag added their theme song, "You and Me", to their act in the late 1950s. Written by Tommy Steele, it was originally performed by Steele and Jimmy Edwards in the 1958 London pantomime production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Peters Fun Fair also featured Roy Lyons as Cousin Roy and continued for 13 years.