NeuLion Incorporated, the company driving convergence between the television and the internet, announced today that IslandersTV is up and running – providing on-demand programming for New York Islanders hockey fans any time, anywhere in the world.

Islanders TV is the first 24 hour channel providing original content created by the Islanders, and its partners, not available anywhere else. Programming consists of all events leading up to a game, detailed post-game locker room interviews and analysis, that resembles reality television at its best.

Instant Media (I'M), a privately-held technology company pioneering Internet TV, today announced that a new version of its patent-pending software is now available for download. Instant Media 1.2 adds an integrated commerce engine, allowing users to purchase, rent or subscribe to premium content on I'M's free high-definition Internet TV player. The commerce function was added in anticipation of the launch of I'M's premium content channels. Additionally, an integrated marketing capability enables content providers to market and promote their offerings over the web and though a broad network of marketing affiliates.

NBC has released the results of a new case study that examines the results of delivering "webisodes" of their hit TV show, "The Office", online.

Here are some of the results:

• The Office webisodes delivered over 1.3 million page views in the first five days
• Weekly page views have soared to an average of 1.4 million, compared to 450,000 during non-original episodes
• Video streams are averaging 600,000 per week - ten times more than during repeat episodes
• Average time spent on the office site has increased to 7 minutes

Aggregator Limited announced the launch of its first TV-over-Broadband (TVoBB) service, a Russian language portal that is set to change the TV viewing habits of over half a million Russians living in the UK. MoëTV (pronounced 'my-oar TV' and meaning My TV in English) will go live later this month and will provide a vast collection of on-demand entertainment, drama, current affairs, films, documentaries, music and children's programming.

MoëTV is the first in a series of planned service launches targeted at niche audiences from Aggregator, the brainchild of senior television industry figures Martin Goswami and Chris Griffin. Aggregator's TVoBB services will create a new UK pay-TV platform, an on-demand broadband service that will deliver high-quality content to ethnic and special interest communities that are currently underserved by the television market.

Entriq is working with Intel to provide on-demand broadband-delivered entertainment content for free to consumers with Intel Viiv technology-based PCs and Centrino mobile technology-based laptops with NBC's "VIP Access" Web site: http://www.nbc.com/NBC_First_Look/.

NBC "VIP Access" will feature over 20 different NBC Universal broadcast and online programs, including online access to full episodes of the fall season of "Heroes" and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."

JumpTV Inc., the world's leading broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet, announced it has signed an Internet-broadcast agreement with Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (RTR) to broadcast its international signal (RTR Planeta) exclusively in certain territories.

Barcelona-based entertainment production and distribution company Neptuno Films and the Spanish-based Portal Latino, a subsidiary of Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores SDAE, have joined forces to greenlight a new IPTV kids channel in Spain named El Gato Feliz (Happy Cat).

TasteTV, the leading online and video on-demand food, wine and lifestyle television network, announced that it is accepting viewer nominations for its newest program, SEXY CHEFS. TasteTV can be seen by millions of viewers from its broadband streaming video channel at www.TasteTV.com and on cable Video On Demand.

More than 106.5 million people, or about 3 out of every 5 U.S. Internet users, streamed or downloaded video during the month of July. In total, nearly 7.2 billion videos were streamed or downloaded by U.S. Internet users for an average of 67 streams per streamer, which means the typical video streamer viewed an average of more than two streams per day.

Yahoo! Sites ranked as the top property by unique U.S. streamers with 37.9 million, followed very closely by MySpace, which attracted 37.4 million U.S. streamers. Fast-rising Youtube ranked third with 30.5 million U.S. streamers, followed by the Time Warner Network (25.7 million U.S. streamers) and Microsoft Sites (16.2 U.S. million streamers).

here!, America’s premium gay television network, and Maven Networks Inc. today announced a partnership to create and launch here! Video, a new broadband video channel designed exclusively for gay and lesbian consumers. The channel provides here!’s extensive cache of original and acquired gay and lesbian programming built upon Maven’s Maven Media SystemTM (MMS) leading broadband video platform. The service will enable users to have a superior viewing experience of here! video content across multiple platforms and hardware devices.

TV Worldwide, the first web-based global TV network, announced today that it had teamed with Pearson Learning Solutions, a part of Pearson Education, to create the first in a series of professional development courses for delivery via Internet TV. The initial Internet TV presentation, featuring the Homeland Security education course developed by Homeland Defense experts Kevin Collins and Richard White, was recently launched for distribution via the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Graduate University Course Catalog. The course will also be distributed via TV Worldwide's Homeland Defense Internet TV Channel at www.homelanddefensetv.com.

XOS Technologies, Inc., the leading technology provider for maximizing the value of content, commerce and services for sports organizations and fans, today announced that the College Sports Direct Web site has undergone a dramatic change to become the only destination with a comprehensive list of all online college sports programming.

A Mixture of Professional and Consumer Video

Yahoo! Inc. and Current TV have partnered to deliver high-quality video content to the largest audience on the Web. The launch of the Yahoo! Current Network, available today at http://video.yahoo.com/currenttv, raises the bar for what consumers should expect from their online video experience. It combines the best in user submitted videos plus professional, studio-produced content to air side by side in a co-branded environment, leveraging the highly customizable Yahoo! Video platform.

Anheuser-Busch will tap into the world's growing online community by launching an internet-based entertainment network -- Bud.TV -- featuring 24-hour live and on-demand programming from numerous exclusive partners such as Wild West Picture Show Productions, TriggerStreet.com, LivePlanet, SEED, @radical.media, Omelet and DDB Worldwide.

Disney reached an agreement with ABC to show local ads during the online airing of ABC's primetime television shows. Reuters writes, "Disney plans to reintroduce its free, ad-supported broadband video player software at ABC.com later this month after a two-month test this summer showed viewers could recall the interactive ads at far higher rates than on TV airings."