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NBC Sports, MediaZone, All England Club Partner to Bring Full Wimbledon Internet Coverage to Audiences Across U.S.; Partnership Delivers U.S. Audiences Expanded Coverage and Viewing Options for the World's Most Prestigious Tennis Tournament.


REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- The All England Lawn Tennis lawn tennis: see tennis.  Club, MediaZone and NBC Sports NBC Sports is a division of NBC, responsible for the televising of many sports events on the network. The NBC Sports broadcast lineup includes: The Olympic Games (through 2012), the NFL, the NHL, Notre Dame Football, the PGA Tour, the USGA Championships, Wimbledon, the French  today announced that they have partnered to offer U.S. audiences unprecedented depth of coverage of The Championships, Wimbledon. The partnership was brokered by TWI Twi  
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, an IMG IMG International medical graduate, see there  Media Company.

Under the terms of the agreement, MediaZone, the official Worldwide Broadband Partner to The Championships, Wimbledon, will partner with NBC Sports in the United States to offer live and on-demand Internet broadcasts during the entire tournament of more than 250 matches from up to nine concurrent courts via its Wimbledon LIVE service at http://www.wimbledon.org/live. NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
, in its 38th consecutive year as the broadcast home of Wimbledon, presents more than 38 broadcast hours of coverage over nine days from Wimbledon, including the Gentlemen's and Ladies' Finals, and will drive traffic to the Wimbledon LIVE service for other tournament matches.

The partnership marks the first time that the prestigious tennis championship will be available through extensive broadband coverage in the U.S. and will dramatically increase the breadth of coverage and viewing options throughout The Championships. In addition to live and on-demand full matches from multiple courts, Wimbledon LIVE will also feature three free live Radio Wimbledon channels, 10 hours of classic archive footage, showcasing legendary Wimbledon matches, match highlights, player interviews, and more special content. Programming will be available to stream or download to a PC or portable media device. Wimbledon LIVE will be integrated with the official site (http://wimbledon.org), which will allow users to combine their viewing experience with player information, live scoring and statistics from all matches at The Championships. Wimbledon LIVE will also be offered through Wimbledon.MSNBC.com.

"As a long-standing broadcast partner with the All England Lawn Tennis Club, we regard Wimbledon as one of the marquee events on the NBC Sports schedule and continuously look to extend its reach to as many U.S. tennis enthusiasts as possible," said Gary Zenkel, president, NBC Olympics and executive vice president, strategic partnerships, NBC Sports. "By partnering with MediaZone to offer the Wimbledon LIVE service to our audience, we ensure that they can not only follow The Championships through our broadcasts, but also access more flexible viewing options and in-depth tournament coverage via the Internet."

"As Wimbledon celebrates its 129 year history, we are excited to work with NBC to offer the broadest and deepest tournament coverage ever to the U.S. audience," said Michelle Wu, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of MediaZone. "Through our daily multi-court live and on-demand online coverage of the tournament and the pageantry of NBC Sports' broadcasts, we're offering American tennis enthusiasts the best of both worlds and are confident that this first-of-its-kind collaboration will make this a Wimbledon to remember."

About MediaZone

MediaZone is a leading global online broadcaster specializing in sports, entertainment and international programming. MediaZone offers both subscription and pay-per-view access to live and on-demand event broadcasts online, helping consumers stay connected with hard to find, yet highly relevant programming, while providing media owners with a new channel to distribute and monetize their content libraries. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation).

The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay
 with offices in China and Europe. MediaZone is a division of MIH MIH Make It Happen (band)
MIH Master of International Health (University of Copenhagen)
MIH Molar-Incisor-Hypomineralisation
MIH Men in Hats (online comic) 
 Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers (Nasdaq:NPSN NPSN NAS Processing System Network
NPSN National Police Support Network Inc.
). For more information, please visit MediaZone.com.
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