Forget the international date line. I crossed the international tennis line when I flew to the UK this weekend, leaving behind a place where I could follow most of Wimbledon live online at no charge on NBC, which even will stream the finals live, and ESPN (NYSE: DIS)  for one…

Major League Baseball’s digital unit may have dropped Microsoft’s Silverlight as its online video platform, but Silverlight apparently works just fine for NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). NBCU has reupped with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for the 2010 Vancouver Games. The two companies will run “NBCOlympics.com on MSN” again, complete with live…

A high-profile opportunity for Microsoft’s Silverlight —while Windows Media Player will provide the basic player for the 2009 NCAA March Madness on Demand on CBSSports.com, Silverlight will power a “high-definition quality” feed. (The standard offers about 550 kb/s while Silverlight should be up to 1.5 mb/s.) Both will be ad-supported…

Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the digital arm of MLB, is dropping Microsoft’s Silverlight after a year, for a return to Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash beginning in 2009. MLBAM gave Silverlight a boost when it switched from Adobe Flash in 2007 as part of the media player’s launch. But MLBAM’s…