The startup, which streamed live, over-the-air networks free in multiple US cities, is suspending operations after a court loss. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, covering the ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Locast, a nonprofit local broadcast TV streaming service, will carry the Big Game live this Sunday on FOX TV in 17 U.S. cities for free. With Locast, ...

Locast, a registered not-for-profit that captures over-the-air broadcast signals and streams them over the internet to users who live within a specific geographic areas, has been handed a major blow ...

NEW YORK—As wildfires in the western U.S. continue to rage, Locast has announced a new program to those impacted by the fires that will allow them to access local TV totally free. A non-profit local ...

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 ...

A federal judge focuses on the way Locast has raised money and rules an exception to copyright liability for nonprofits doesn't apply here. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large ABC, CBS, Fox ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The country’s biggest TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — have sued Locast, a streaming service that transmits their broadcasts for free, in federal court in New York. The companies ...

PITTSBURGH, July 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Locast, America's only nonprofit, free, local broadcast TV digital translator streaming service, is now delivering more than 40 local TV channels via the ...

MINNEAPOLIS—Locast has planted its flag in the Twin Cities, announcing that the nonprofit local broadcast TV streaming service is now available for viewers in Minneapolis and St. Paul markets. Locast ...

BOCA RATON, FLA. — The controversial local broadcast TV streaming service some companies believe is illegally distributing stations without a retransmission agreement has invaded South Florida’s two ...

In July 2019, an effort driven by the nation’s four major broadcast television networks — with the endorsement of the NAB — was launched in a New York Federal District Court to decide whether or not ...