Tennis fans at work can rejoice as the 2007 Wimbledon will be broadcast online this year. The All England Lawn Tennis Club, NBCSports.com, ESPN.com and MediaZone will be hard at work to return their online video service, Wimbledon LIVE. Building on the success of last year's service, Wimbledon LIVE will offer the live and on-demand coverage of The Championships, including multi-court, full-match coverage, the entire 2006 archive, additional classic footage, player interviews and other behind-the-scenes extras. If you can't wait to put an extra charge on the credit card, Wimbledon LIVE 2007 is available for pre-order now. Subscribers will have immediate access to the entire 2006 archive and additional footage; LIVE tournament coverage of this year's Championships commences on June 25, 2007.

If you are looking for other events broadcast live online, jump over to Find Internet TV to check out their guide.

Gamers, want to get all of the happenings in the videogame world in one place? Try http://www.esport.tv - and have the option to watch anything from their huge of line-up of shows, all full-screen, with Narrowstep's premier platform, telvOS.

"Quality was also a big concern of ours," said Ian Flanagan of esport.tv. "We know that just as gamers expect the highest quality graphics in their games, they would also expect the same commitment to quality when watching our channel. Narrowstep gives us the tools to make that happen."

Newsweek has a great story on the success, struggles, and strategy of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, also known as MLBAM or BAM. The digital offshoot of MLB will bring in approximately $400 million in revenue. That includes income via MLB.TV, which will host more than a million subscribers, nearly $80 million in merchandise sales, a blog network, wireless phone subscriptions that include updates, ringtones and cell-phone wallpaper, and much much more. Not too shabby.

As for its site MLB.TV, BAM will be adding to its already feature-rich website the ability to watch games from multiple camera angles. The website already employs the ability to watch 6 live games at the same time, dubbed MLB.TV Mosaic.

My question is: should the NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA, etc. be following suit?

In the Internet TV space, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times both reported last week that Sony Pictures Television is creating its own Internet TV channel on MySpace. The space will be called the Minisode Network and will feature vintage Sony series including Charlie's Angels, The Facts of Life, Fantasy Island, Different Strokes, The Partridge Family, and Who's the Boss.

The shows have been condensed from their original length of 30 or 60 minutes down to 4 to 6 minutes. Sony assures that the compressed content still has the full impact as the full-length originals.

Honda has agreed to sponsor the site in a deal estimated at six figures. The company will advertise its Honda Fit vehicle and has shortened its advertising down to five-second spots to fit the compressed shows.

A very happy Brightcove announced today that is has signed a major deal with Fox Entertainment Group to make its range of Internet TV services available to all Fox properties. Each Fox network and studio will use Brightcove to program and host ad-supported Internet video channels and targeted consumer media campaigns.

This raises several questions around Fox's intentions with their existing programming viewable on MySpace and their partnership with NBC Universal to create the largest Internet video distribution network.

IceWEB and Limelight Networks are just two of the key players who will be sponsoring and providing assistive technology to be utilized in the official webcast for the National Television Academy's 34th Annual Daytime Creative Arts & Entertainment Emmy Awards in Hollywood, California. The event will be broadcast live from Hollywood on June 14th, 2007 beginning at 8:00PM Pacific Time.

IceWEB’s IcePORTAL Hosted Microsoft Sharepoint service will be utilized the multimedia file repository for content associated with the live Webcast. TVWorldwide.com will be webcasting the event which will be promoted on the National Television Academy website at www.emmyonline.tv. Other event sponsors include Abacast and PalTalk.

Maven Networks and Univision Online announce that Univision.com’s new consumer video web portal is being powered by the Maven Internet TV Platform. Univision.com is enhancing its online video offerings to the Hispanic market, the country’s fastest growing segment of the online population.

Univision.com is the most visited Spanish-language website in the United States with over 15 million unique browsers per month. The website offers original and exclusive entertainment, music, news and sports with 12 specialty channels that showcase premium content all geared toward the interests of the ever-increasing Hispanic audience. The new video portal leverages Maven’s Internet TV Platform to support thousands of video assets throughout the Univision website. Univision.com is integrating key Maven features into its video portal, including scalable video publishing workflow and dynamic playlists for automated content updates. Univision.com is also leveraging custom work to achieve a unique player design and enhanced navigation. Additionally, the Maven Internet TV Platform is enabling Spanish-language community features, such as "send to a friend" and the ability to embed a mini-viral player to allow for content sharing and increased distribution. These features ensure a superior user experience and encourage deeper and more valuable consumer engagement.

Limelight has been selected as the exclusive provider of media streaming services for the U.S. Soccer Federation. U.S. Soccer will leverage Limelight's Live Windows Media Streaming service to provide global delivery of a wide range of video content -- including select matches of the U.S. Men's and Women's National Teams, and U.S. Soccer's 11 Youth National Teams, as well as other informative and entertaining soccer-related content such as live pre- and post-game coverage, press conferences and breaking news.

U.S. Soccer will leverage the ability of Limelight's Windows Media Streaming service to let viewers flexibly tune in to their programming via the expanding universe of broadband Internet-connected devices, including PCs, handheld devices, and IPTV set-top boxes. An important benefit of the Limelight platform is the insight its LUX reporting facility provides U.S. Soccer for measuring and maximizing the effectiveness of its Web content.

Viewers and Broadcasters Can Now Find Live Streaming Content Online from a Single Location

Find Internet TV™, a leading directory and guide of sites broadcasting video online, announced the launch of its program Listings for live Internet TV. The Find Internet TV Listings is the first to provide Internet users a programming grid to find live online video content. The Listings is visible at Find Internet TV and contains schedules for a wide variety of quality programming from around the world, including entertainment television, sporting events, music, and news.

"Online video, whether live or on-demand, is expanding immensely, and it has become increasingly difficult for viewers to locate the content they want to watch online. While a number of companies and sites have made their focus to index video clips on the Web, they've left live streaming video on the sidelines," says Curtis Sund, Founder of Find Internet TV. "With our live Internet TV Listings, users now have the ability to visit one central destination for complete and updated lineup of live online content."

Find Internet TV's program grid provides a high quality user experience through an easy-to-navigate, feature-rich format. Users have the ability to jump hour-by-hour through the grid or to specific dates and times. In addition, users can save their favorite Internet TV channels for easy access.

Cisco announces that Danish utility company Bredbaand Nord has launched video services over a Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network platform comprising a headend from Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company and a Cisco Ethernet fiber-to-the-home network. The initial service to customers is designed to provide up to 46 channels of video over a connection specified at 100 megabit per second direct to the home with voice and data services to complete a triple-play offering.

Deregulation of the utility industry presents companies like Bredbaand Nord with many new opportunities to expand services. The new video service will provide viewers with 46 analog channels, initially delivered to Bredbaand Nord through an IP link. The new Scientific Atlanta headend will convert the IP programming to analog format for transmission to customers over the utility's fiber network.

The recently launched Bud.TV website has plumited in unique visits causing it to become stale. Recent data showed that in March Bud.TV dropped nearly 40 percent to 152,000 visits from the previous month, according to comScore. The traffic to the site in April so low it didn't meet the threshold for measurability on comScore. August Busch IV said Bud.TV will "probably fade."

Bud.TV debuted the day after the Super Bowl and includes programming such as stand-up comedy acts, featured sports, and interviewing celebrities in a New York City cab. So, if this is the end of Bud.TV this one's for you.

CNN Pipeline launched in late 2005 and charged a $25 a year service providing four online video streams. CNN tried many variations of Pipeline pricing by offering monthly access for $2.95 and even a 99-cent day pass to users to no avail. However, the adjustments weren't enough as free is what internet users are looking for and will soon be able to get from CNN Pipeline.

Currently, more than 6 million users visit the CNN website each day. CNN plans to repackage its offerings of Pipeline into this new format starting on July 1.

ClipBlast! announces that news-related video is the fastest-growing category on the Video Web. Video news now accounts for 32 percent of all the video ClipBlast! indexes – up from only 15 percent in January.

Local TV stations are primarily driving this explosive growth, according to ClipBlast! Over the last four months, hundreds of local-affiliate websites have begun augmenting print stories with video clips and implementing video streaming.

According to Hitwise, the amount of traffic leaving news and media sites to watch presumably related video on entertainment - multimedia sites increased 196 percent from April 2006 to March 2007. The report also notes that search engines played an increasingly important role in driving traffic to news and media websites.

MySpace launches new section within MySpace Video featuring premium content from the top news and lifestyle brands relevant to the community. In the coming months, MySpace Video will launch “branded channels” for its global network with news outlets including National Geographic, The New York Times, Reuters, and lifestyle outlets including Animation Show, The Daily Reel, Expert Village, Flow, FOX’s IGN Entertainment, LX.TV, Octane TV, Kush TV, Ripe TV, Studio411, VBS.tv (from the makers of Vice Magazine), and Young Hollywood.

“The upcoming branded channel launch continues the growing momentum of MySpace Video,” said Jeff Berman, General Manager of Video and SVP of Public Affairs for MySpace. “We’re empowering our partners to customize their own video channels and use them as hubs to create a niche experience for users. Today’s announcement is a sign of things to come for MySpace Video.”

All branded channels will live inside MySpace Video and will contain varying video content offered by each respective partner. In response to user demand, the initial set of MySpace Video branded channels focuses on the categories of news and lifestyle.

World Digital Media Group launches its Internet TV channel. Your Music Channel Television is a global site providing superior quality video on demand, unlike static IP music sites. The Web-based channel celebrates the best of the new and old worlds by showcasing spectacular-quality content that’s always about music.

YMCtv.com show host and coordinating producer Will Weinand gives an edgy daily Internet broadcast in which he announces that the all-music channel is designed with “you” in mind. Instead of confining viewers to a linear program, YMCtv.com can be user-customized, separating it from simple file-sharing sites like YouTube. Content is designed to be easily e-mailed, digitally downloaded or available for physical purchase. Weinand not only features WDMG-affiliated artists and bands, but also third-party indie music under “Your Music Videos.”