All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) and NBC Sports have announced that they are providing The Championships, Wimbledon live streaming and on-demand access. This is for the fist time that live online streaming is available free in the USA, which will be powered by Microsoft Silverlight. NBC Sports will begin its coverage on Saturday, June 27 at 3:00 pm and will deliver 38 broadcast hours of coverage over nine days from Wimbledon.
Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, NBC Sports & Olympics, Digital Media said “NBC Sports has a proud tradition of Wimbledon coverage, and we are even prouder to extend our coverage online with the all-new Live at Wimbledon, Tennis fans in the U.S. can now widely follow Wimbledon online both live and on-demand, and the quality of the Live at Wimbledon video player will only enhance their viewing experience.”
Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform at Microsoft Corp. said “Building on the success of the NBCOlympics.com broadcast of the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, we’re excited to partner with NBC Sports once again to provide Silverlight and the unique capabilities of Live Smooth Streaming to power Live at Wimbledon, Silverlight enables NBC Sports to provide Wimbledon fans true HD-quality video content and DVR-like features, dramatically improving the quality of the online viewing experience over previous years.”
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