[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

I personally am glad , if everyone gets tv for free , who pays for programs and from all the talk on here you got what you paid for which seemed to be a lot of aggravation , call me stupid but at this age and having a few bucks to spend I just want to turn on my tv and watch it without banging a lot of buttons or buying things from flea markets that get closed down by police

Did locast provide any channels that are not normally free? I thought their purpose was to provide over the internet what should already be available over the air.

Some people are not able to receive channels over the air that were available to them before the digital broadcast update a few years ago. Others are in valleys or other obstructions that prevent them from receiving the channels in their area. Locast provided a way for these people to receive the channels from their market without having to pay exorbitant prices for cable PLUS any local channel access fee. Essentially, they replaced your antenna with the internet to provide you with the free channels in your local area.

If they provided pay channels for free then I can see the problem. I have no sympathy at all for the local broadcasters if they are complaining because households in their area are receiving Locast for free rather than paying for they channels through local channel access fees to the cable company.