Dumping cable or satellite TV in favor of streaming TV — commonly called cord-cutting — can be daunting, especially when it comes to ensuring that you can watch traditional local network affiliates.

TV viewers looking to cut the cord and drop their cable or satellite services are getting a new option that could expand their viewing choices — as long as the company stays out of court. Locast, a ...

The Locast website is displayed on a computer screen, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019 in New York. A nonprofit called Locast, available in seven major U.S. cities, beams popular networks to phones, TVs and ...

NEW YORK — You canceled cable long ago. Your TV antenna has trash reception for ABC. But you want to host an Oscars viewing party. What to do? A newish, under-the ...

Local TV streaming service Locast has closed up shop, at least for the time being. It suspended operations following a ruling on Tuesday that it couldn't use its non-profit status as a legal shield.

Once upon a time, television signals were something that flitted magically through the air, landing on a laptop-sized cathode ray tube around which an entire family might gather. Assuming you weren’t ...

NEW YORK (AP) — You canceled cable long ago. Your TV antenna has trash reception for ABC. But you want to host an Oscars viewing party. What to do? A newish, under ...

NEW YORK (AP) — You canceled cable long ago. Your TV antenna has trash reception for ABC. But you want to host an Oscars viewing party. What to do? A newish, under ...

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