The Venice Project (sorry Joost) and Babelgum have created some discussions on how the century-old TV broadcast business models could be turned upside down soon - or maybe not... The current options for online TV are to go to each TV channel's internet website directly, check out aggregation sites of TV channels, or sign on with some of the new services like Joost or Babelgum. In the US there are a bunch of major TV channels that "air" - a day or so later - lots of their TV shows, see e.g. the following online channels from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox or a collection of independent news from LinkTV, a not-for-profit organization sponsored by some large US foundations:

• dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing
• cbs.com/innertube
• nbc.com/video
• www.myspace.com/fox
• www.LinkTV.org

In Europe nearly all TV channels now offer online content: examples are BBC, ZDF, ARD, SF...

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/broadband/
• http://www.liveuktv.com/google.asp
• http://www.zdf.de/
• http://www.ard.de/
• http://www.sf.tv/

What basically every TV channel is doing is offering a website where you can watch audio/video content optimized for PC users but lacking the convenience one would expect when watching a living room TV. So there is quite some room for improvement, which is what Joost and Babelgum obviously have in mind with their aggregation platforms (also look at ChannelChooser). Not an easy job, though.

If you like an internationally diverse selection and can understand many languages then check out BeelineTV.com or wwiTV and tons of others, they offer lots of that. So it seems at first sight to be a pretty crowded market for still very few paying customers. Most offer it for free (getting their revenues with ads from the conventional broadcast TV business) or a small subscription fee and others are in search of both customers and business models. Of course Google (YouTube) and Yahoo will be present here as well and probably will become major players when they have cleaned up their legal copyright minefields.