Locast was ordered to shut down its online TV service forever in a permanent injunction issued yesterday by a federal judge. The order came two weeks after the judge gave major broadcast networks a ...
Locast, a service that streamed local TV for free in about three dozen U.S. cities, suspended its operations Thursday after losses in court against the broadcast industry. The owners of the country’s ...
The popular app for cord-cutters suffered an adverse decision in late summer and has now agreed to be permanently shut down. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large A case that began with hype ...
NEW YORK, Jan. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Locast.org, a nonprofit local broadcast TV streaming service, launched a fundraising effort to protect Americans’ rights to watch their local TV channels ...
Apparently, Locast wasn't free enough. The streaming service, which offered some 31 U.S. cities free access to the four major TV networks, reaching 2.3 million registered consumers, has stopped ...
Sling TV is facing a good news/bad news scenario. The OTT live streaming service has just announced that it will host a new channel from Barstool Sports. At the same time, its customers have lost ...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Jan. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Locast, the nonprofit streaming service serving viewers unable to tune-in their local off-air TV channels, is now streaming 20 local TV channels in ...
Locast fits into a crowded field of devices and services aiming to replace or complement cable. There are cable-like streaming services like YouTube TV, DirecTV Now or PlayStation Vue, which offer ...
I expect a troll pile on for this but... Blame locast. When they didn’t follow nonprofit regulations, they lost the right to re-transmit and let us all down. It appeared they would comply yesterday, ...
Networks accused over-the-air streamer of violating copyrights Locast halted operations last month after losing key defense Locast agrees to pay damages, permanently end service (Reuters) - The ...