A newly-launched nonprofit is seeking to solve a dilemma faced by the many sports fans weighing whether to cut the cable cord: it’s offering to stream local broadcast stations in high definition to users’ smartphones for free. That includes the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.
Locast.org, founded by longtime communications attorney and Sports Fans Coalition chairman David Goodfriend, offers a free streaming app for local broadcast stations that’s currently only available to users in New York.
But Goodfriend says the company is using NYC, with its tall buildings and condensed living spaces that can disrupt over-the-air signals, as a test market, and plans to expand to other cities as soon as funding allows.