iQ Digital, a full-service, rich- media solutions company specializing in Internet television, video streaming, iPod media solutions and video production, announced the inception of the Learning Now Network (LNN): an Internet television network for K-12 schools. The rollout, completed in November 2005, is the largest in the nation and includes more than 50 schools in five states with more than 12,000 daily "impressions."

LNN operates just like television, with scheduled programming including news, educational magazine shows and public service programming -- all delivered on 30" and 40" plasma TVs in the schools and accessible via the Internet. Unlike regular TV, though, LNN content is fully searchable and available "on demand" from any PC with an Internet connection.

A truly innovative free to use internet sailing resource has been launched at the London Boat Show using technology from TV on the internet specialist Narrowstep.

Sail.tv is a new internet-based TV station and the first 24-hour channel available globally that is devoted to sailing and watersports.

Despite an increasing interest in sailing, there remains an unfulfilled and enthusiastic audience ready and waiting to view more of their favourite sport.

BroadRelay, Inc. announced the launch of its new Chinese-language online entertainment channel under the "SIVOO" brand name. The Company also announced the signing of a three-year agreement with the Silk Road Company for additional programming to be added to the channel in the near future. This content includes 8 - 12 hours of unique television programming from China daily, including news, music, sports, variety shows, children's programming and political news. BroadRelay has the exclusive international broadband distribution rights for each day's programming for six months.

Movies currently appearing on "SIVOO Chinese" include such well-known titles as "In the Mood For Love," "2046," "House of Flying Daggers" and "Hero" and feature many well-known actors such as: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung, Stephen Chow, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung. The channel includes selections in Cantonese and Mandarin, many with traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese and English subtitles.

Brightbox Inc., announces its latest niche channel to help business thrive on the Internet.

"Most businesses, from the mom-and-pop to Fortune 100 companies, struggle with marketing their products on the Internet. Having a great Internet marketing strategy can be the equalizer that pushes small companies ahead of large ones," said Stephen Pierce, the host of the channel and a successful Internet Marketer. "We've seen what start-up Amazon.com did to Barnes & Noble by using affiliate marketing and other cutting edge strategies for building their business online. Any company can do the same thing."

The International Hockey Federation’s drive to increase the global exposure of hockey has continued with the launch of WorldHockey.tv, an Internet television channel.

WorldHockey.tv will provide live coverage of all matches from the men’s Sahara Hockey Champions Trophy in Chennai on a pay-per-view basis to viewers throughout the world (except North America and the Caribbean) with a broadband, high-speed Internet connection.

For North America and the Caribbean, a partnership has been agreed with Willow TV. Willow TV will provide live coverage of the tournament in Chennai.

Want "a la Carte" programming?

With all the talk lately about "a la Carte" programming we thought it only right to mention that it's already available on the web. Simply click over to our Internet TV stations page and you can find over 290 stations fully searchable by country, language, category, media type, live or video-on-demand, and now search terms.

Which brings us to our next point: yesterday we rolled out what we believe is the first directory of Internet TV stations that you can search via a term or phrase. No longer do you have to page through all the stations listed under a category, country or language to find the exact station you are looking for.

Simply type in "extreme sports" and get extreme sports television. Type in "dutch" or "netherlands" and "music" to obtain Dutch music television. Type in AFTV to return all AFTV stations.

We've included the ability for you to use quoted phrases or include the operators OR and NEAR in your search query. You do not need to include the word AND between search terms because we automatically return only results that include all your search terms.

We hope you enjoy and whether you do or not, please provide us with feedback. And are we missing an Internet TV station? Help us improve the directory by submitting a station or informing us of a broken link.

CNN has launched CNN Pipeline, a paid broadband video service that allows users to watch live video streams or choose from CNN's video-on-demand library.

While the service is only available for a fee, it is commerical free. Initial prices for CNN Pipeline are $2.95 for a month of service, $24.95 for a year, or 99 cents for a 24 hour day pass.

"With CNN Pipeline, CNN.com stakes out entirely new territory for online news, placing the broadband consumer in the ultimate driver's seat," said Susan Grant, executive vice president of CNN News Services.

Arizona based inventory management firm, Vivaldi Business Solutions, recently secured their role in the distribution and sale of Evolving Artist Media's online inventory. VBS, a company specializing in media sales and inventory management, intends to make the Evolving Artist Media Network a hot-spot for online advertisers.

VBS plans to offer custom advertisement and sponsorship campaigns on a variety of different platforms, including the networks' ENGAGE Internet Radio and eaTV - Internet Television. Both broadcast LIVE 24/7 to an audience around the globe.

TV1.DE reported a 300% increase in Direct-Response Internet Television contracts with leading Retail TV broadcasters in the past quarter.

"It's no secret that Broadband Internet is stealing eyeballs from traditional TV", said Jeffrey Niedermayer, TV1's Business Development Director. "Retail TV is really beginning to capitalize on this shift in consumer behaviour – broadcasting to consumer's home-office PC's, offering instant impulse purchasing".

The World Championship Sports Network (WCSN), the first network devoted exclusively to showcasing the world's best athletes in major international sports competitions from around the world, today announced a strategic partnership agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball. In addition to managing WCSN's digital assets, MLBAM will have an equity position in WCSN. WCSN is dedicated to providing live or same-day-delayed in-depth coverage of over 40 global sports, online, on television and on multiple platforms, so that fans can enjoy them not just around the Olympic Games but annually, for their entire season.

If you have problems with our main Internet TV directory page, please use the links below to return a list of sites broadcasting video or Internet TV that relate to the country, language, or category.

Internet Gold announced that TIPO, its 50%-owned children's portal, will soon be adding TIPO-TV, an Internet-based television/podcast channel targeting children aged 8-15, to its broad range of content and youth-oriented applications.

As an extension to its "blog" and personal website-building services, TIPO-TV will offer tools that make it easy for individuals to create their own video clips and submit them to TIPO, including editing software, graphics libraries, and captioning aids. TIPO's qualified personnel will screen all clips submitted, slotting those appropriate for its target users into a varied and exciting broadcast schedule.

Thousands of episodes from some of the most popular television series of all time will make a comeback exclusively on AOL.com in early 2006, thanks to a pioneering collaboration between AOL and Warner Bros. Domestic Cable Distribution to form a new broadband network. The network- called In2TV - will allow consumers to stream full-length episodes from favorite series such as Welcome Back Kotter, Sisters, Beetlejuice, Lois & Clark, La Femme Nikita and Growing Pains free and on-demand on the Web. Along with full-length episodes, In2TV will also include unique interactive features such as games, quizzes, polls, trivia contests and more.

What do you get when you combine two computers, two TV sets, and a school bus?

The next best thing in music television: ManiaTV!

Denver's CBS4 featured a great story on ManiaTV! and Drew Massey, CEO and founder of ManiaTV!

"It started at a dive cheeseburger shack in Stanford, Calif.," Massey said. "I was meeting with the founders of Excite.com and I had the epiphany -- for you know I'm a media guy, a media entrepreneur (with) a media background -- I said the Internet is the biggest thing to happen in my lifetime, I'm a media guy, television is the biggest thing over here, how are the two going to marry?"

AFTV Comedy or Comedy Central Overdrive? Music Plus TV or Mania TV? What are the top rated Internet TV stations for any given category?

We'll soon find out.

As we briefly mentioned in our last Internet TV update, we have been working on building a rating system for the stations listed in our directory. After much toil, tears, and sweat, we are very excited to announce the system is now live.

We used the simple 5-star approach for the basis of our rating system. The 5 stars to the right of the channel are the overall rating. Users click "Rate This!" to provide a channel rating.