Velocix has been selected by Ether Digital to provide advanced web video delivery services for their Miomni digital entertainment platform. Miomni is Ether Digital's "white-label" solution that enables global brands and content owners to create their own bespoke broadcast quality web TV channels.

The combination of the Miomni platform and the Velocix Digital Asset Delivery Network provides a flexible, high performance solution that makes it super easy for entertainment brands to create and deliver compelling on-demand video services over the Internet. Currently, the Miomni platform uses the Velocix Video Streaming service for on-demand video delivery in Windows Media format. Plans are already underway to extend this to include live streaming and download video services, all delivered by Velocix.

Vusion announces a strategic partnership with Sports Video Group to provide the next generation of Internet technology to the sports video industry. As part of the news, Vusion has been selected by SVG as the exclusive HD encoding and streaming partner for the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame.

Despite the fact that most sports video is shot using HD cameras, media companies are forced to reduce the quality of their online video offerings due to the exorbitant bandwidth fees associated with traditional content delivery network technology. An end-to-end service for commercial media companies to deliver premium, high-definition video over the Internet, Vusion is capable of delivering instant-on, streaming video to millions of concurrent viewers at a fraction of the cost of CDNs.

As more and more consumers turn to the Internet as a complementary medium to mainstream broadcasting or as a primary vehicle to watch hard to find events, MediaZone has seen strong momentum as a leader in broadband sports and entertainment video services.

In 2008, MediaZone has extended its broadband lineup with the addition of IndyCar Race Control, the most interactive viewing experience for IndyCar fans around the world. The company has also continued its long standing international rugby coverage of annual tournaments and renewed its partnership with the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club as the official online broadcaster of The Championships at Wimbledon, which will begin airing online LIVE and On-Demand on June 23.

KIT digital is working with the world's leading sports news agency, SNTV, to produce and package coverage of Euro2008 and the Summer Olympics for global broadband and mobile providers.

Through Kamera, KIT's wholly owned subsidiary, a variety of global media and telecommunications companies have subscribed to SNTV's Euro2008 content package, including Polkomtel (Poland), 3 Austria, Sportal (Germany and Switzerland), Infostrada/Sportsplaza (Netherlands), Tiscali (UK and Italy), Yonhap (South Korea), Viasat (Bulgaria), Dogus Media Group (Turkey) and CBC (Canada). KIT digital's service was launched on June 1st, and runs through the remainder of the tournament.

After just four weeks on the air, GRITtv with Laura Flanders has brought together scores of journalists, activists, authors, filmmakers and other guests to create a new kind of program.

This Sunday, June 8th, immediately following the National Conference on Media Reform, GRITtv will go live, from the Twin Cities when Flanders hosts "Live from Main Street" the first of a series of five town-hall style productions, produced by the Media Consortium with GRITtv. "Your Streets, Your Stories" Live From Main Street takes a look at the National Election from the local point of view. In Minneapolis, Live From Mainstreet will take as its theme: Getting Heard in Election Year - and look at the free speech challenges facing the city in the run up to the Republican Convention. The Media Consortium is a unique collaboration among 45 leading independent media organizations including The Nation, Mother Jones, Free Speech TV, and Link TV.

Delve Networks launches its Internet TV and online video publishing platform. In addition to hosting video content, Delve's platform gives content publishers all the necessary tools to upload, manage and track the performance of their online video. With its semantic video web technology and HeatMap interface, Delve becomes the first video platform to enable users to navigate within a hosted video file to find the exact content they want.

Delve processes video through its proprietary semantic layer, which creates a visual map of each video, allowing users to find the exact content they want within a program. The platform supports the H.264 video codec delivering exceptional video quality at low bandwidth rates.

The Big 12 Conference and JumpTV will develop and host a completely redesigned video-centric web platform to support the Big 12 Conference's online destination. The Big 12 Conference encompasses seven states, over 45 million people and more than 18 million television households within its geographic footprint.

The Big 12 Conference is yet another BCS partner of JumpTV and joins 15 other conferences including the Big East Conference, the Mid-American Conference and the Western Athletic Conference.

JumpTV and NeuLion have signed a binding letter of intent to merge, creating a leading enterprise IPTV provider of online sports, international and religious programming.

Under the terms of the Transaction, JumpTV will issue 49,521,958 common shares, 1,840,097 contingent shares, which represents approximately the entire issued and outstanding shares of JumpTV, and 5 million warrants exercisable for two years at US$0.05 above the five-day weighted average closing price prior to the execution of the Definitive Agreement, to the securityholders of NeuLion, in exchange for their NeuLion securities. JumpTV also intends to grant 2.7 million employee stock options, subject to securities law and exchange rules compliance, exercisable at the five-day weighted average closing price prior to closing, which is expected to be on or before October 1, 2008.

Velocix announces that Instituto Cervantes is using its digital delivery services to provide High Definition online video to its audiences around the globe. Instituto Cervantes is the largest organization in the world responsible for promoting the study and teaching of Spanish language and culture.

With Velocix, Instituto Cervantes is able to expand the reach of its global network of more than sixty branches. Additionally, the Institute recently launched an online TV service - delivered by Velocix that provides a new focal point for its Internet offering.

Akamai announces that Perform is leveraging Akamai’s global media delivery network to stream live coverage of major sporting events in the Adobe Flash FLV format. Akamai’s Flash video format is unique in its ability to minimize latency and offer almost real-time coverage of popular sporting events.

Since using the Adobe Flash FLV video format, Perform has experienced peak hits of 775,843 for key events and peak traffic flow of 700 Mbits per second across Akamai’s platform. With a worldwide audience of over 15 million viewers, Perform delivers in excess of 10,000 live events and 35,000 edited clips per year for more than 200 web, broadband TV and mobile services. In order to deliver these services in real-time to its expanding user base, the company realised that it needed to improve the quality of the delivery and speed of its live performance video streaming.

Glam Media and Brightcove announce a partnership that will enable Brightcove media customers to distribute ad-supported video content to Glam Media's network of more than 64 million monthly uniques. The partnership leverages Glam Media's new flagship service GlamTV, unveiled today in a separate announcement, which allows publishers in the Glam Network to access rights-cleared content and indie videos tightly packaged with brand advertising for their web sites.

Brightcove media customers, who represent some of the most highly sought-after premium news and entertainment programming on the Web, will be able to distribute video content to Glam Media's vertical content network of 500+ trusted and influential web sites and blogs. Glam Media's publishers can access premium, rights-cleared content that is tightly packaged with brand advertising. Both Brightcove and Glam Media focus on enabling media companies to control distribution and reach of digital content based on their needs or distribution rights.

Since the debut of their XStream Live products to millions of viewers worldwide on March 10th for “Operation MySpace,” MySpace’s live concert webcast from Kuwait, Kulabyte has been busy delivering the highest quality, full frame rate streaming video solutions to other major networks and broadcasters. In addition to MySpace, event producers and projects that have adopted Kulabyte’s XStream Live encoding solutions include: ITV’s “Formula One” racing coverage in Europe, Camcast’s live extreme sports events weekly in Europe and TV Worldwide’s live national event and technology conference webcasts.

KyLinTV announces the addition of a Taiwanese Christian channel to its ever growing live broadcast list. New Eyes Television is a recently formed Christian television channel broadcasting 24 hours a day, making its first appearance on television in North America.

NETV's mission is to teach and familiarize their audience with Christianity and its theology. NETV is dedicated to spreading the beliefs of Christianity and serving the public to encourage truth and peace in the community.

Aplana Software has successfully developed a new interactive web-site for Russian TV Channel ‘Sport’to broadcast sport events for internet users. The site was developed with the use of Microsoft Silverlight – a recently developed technology for delivering next generation media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

Sport is an all-Russia TV channel owned by VGTRK Media Corporation – the Russian TV and radio broadcasting company – with an audience of over 62 million people viewing sports events and competitions.

Aplana Software developed the new website for ‘Sport’ using Microsoft Silverlight technologies to provide user-friendly access to the list of programmes with high quality video and audio transmissions. New site features enable users to watch video recordings on the video archive page, as well as in two full screen display modes: full screen display of the list of transmissions; and full screen display of video.

Orb Networks announces the world's first way to stream live TV to the iPhone and iPod touch. For the first time, iPhone users can enjoy the immediacy of live sporting events and fast-breaking news on their phone.

"TV on the iPhone is now real," said Joe Costello, CEO of Orb Networks. "Steve Jobs may think that buying shows from iTunes is the same as watching TV, but iPhone users know better. When the NBA playoffs are on, you want to see the game, live, wherever you are. Free."

Orb was the first company to enable the live streaming of TV from users' homes to almost any mobile phone with a streaming player and a web browser. To get around the iPhone's extreme limitations on supported video formats, Orb created a special application, OrbLive, to enable the streaming of any video format to iPhones.