ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC sued to shut down the service that streams broadcast channels for free. Locast calls it a sham and hauls YouTube into the fray. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior media reporter, ...

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 ...

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 ...

DETROIT, Sept. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Locast, the nonprofit local broadcast TV streaming service, is now delivering more than 65 local TV channels via the internet – for free – to those living ...

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 ...

It sounds as if David Goodfriend, having already helped defeat the NFL off the football field, needed another challenge. Goodfriend is a lawyer and co-owner (with wife Sue) of Washington, D.C.-based ...

Nonprofit is only service to stream all local TV channels – for free – over internet All eyes on Pennsylvania as critical swing state in 2020 election WILKES BARRE, Pennsylvania and SCRANTON, ...

Reporter’s note: Locast announced on September 2, 2021 that it was suspending operations after a court ruled against the company’s right to rebroadcast commercial TV signals without authorization.

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 said ...

Update, 9/2/2021: Locast said it is shutting down its TV service, at least for now, in response to its loss in court. "We are suspending operations, effective immediately," Locast said in a message on ...