When the free streaming service Locast shut down last month after losing a crucial court battle with TV networks, it left millions of users without a cheap way to stream local TV channels. But ...

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 ...

After a federal judge sided with the networks' claims of copyright infringement, Locast will officially go quietly into that good night. Reading time 2 minutes In a dismal end to its promise to ...

Defunct streaming television service Locast has agreed to pay $32 million to broadcasters, and to remain shuttered, in order to settle their copyright infringement claims. Locast and the broadcasters ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Locast, the nonprofit local broadcast TV streaming service, is now delivering more than 45 local TV channels via the internet – for free – to those ...

For some cord-cutters, last week’s sudden demise of Locast hit hard, leaving them without affordable access to local channels. Several readers have told me that using an antenna just isn’t feasible ...

Locast has been forced to permanently shut down its free broadcast streaming service, reports The Verge. The company took broadcast TV signals — channels that are already free with an antenna — and ...