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As broadcasters are looking beyond local studios for content, FreeCast has finished developing a new broadcasting platform that allows for distribution of content beyond the web an... More

As broadcasters are looking beyond local studios for content, FreeCast has finished developing a new broadcasting platform that allows for distribution of content beyond the web an... More

By Bill Mobley, CEO, FreeCast - The consumer migration from cable and satellite TV to web-based video providers continues, with no sign of slowing down. Now more than ever, the... More

FreeCast has unveiled its much-anticipated set-top box, which the company envisions as a low-cost, no-compromise replacement not just for the cable box, but expensive cable and sat... More

While FreeCast has been building out the SelectTV platform, the media industry has been wandering from one idea to the next, in search of a way to reverse the lost revenues as the ... More

In the media industry, there’s no dirtier word right now than “Kodi.” The popular media management software is under siege, and the once vibrant ecosystem that supported it i... More

Media aggregation firm FreeCast is announcing plans to create a new digital television ecosystem. By using low-cost web and over-the-air (OTA) distribution, the company intends to ... More

Hard as it may be for an industry that has long enjoyed a blank check in the form of cable revenues, we’re quickly headed towards a world where à la carte TV simply more more ec... More

Hard as it may be for an industry that has long enjoyed a blank check in the form of cable revenues, we’re quickly headed towards a world where à la carte TV simply more more ec... More

Consumers have long been forced to choose between a few dozen channels of varying reception with an HDTV antenna or hundreds of cable networks via costly cable and satellite subscr... More

Today, a new ecosystem of television has emerged. Free (ad-supported) content exists across the web. Some of it is from the very same broadcast networks that we’ve known for deca... More

ATSC 3.0 is expected to be one of the big topics at the NAB Show in Las Vegas April 22-27. After all, the next-gen broadcast transmission standard provides a wide range of benefits... More

Companies like Freecast are looking to solve the lack-of-an-overarching-guide issue. Their SelectTV guide offers a sleek interface for cord-cutters that combines over-the-air and a... More

Discovery CEO David Zaslav spilled the beans on virtual pay-TV subscriber numbers: both PlayStation Vue and DirecTV Now are approaching half a million subscribers. Dish Network’s... More

Study after study shows that a good percentage of American TV viewers feel they are paying too much for their service and would love to cut the cord. But that desire ends the secon... More

FreeCast is announcing today that they've nearly completed the months-long rollout of their new universal "SmartGuide" UI to users of the company's flagship SelectTV service, and w... More

Unbeknownst to most viewers, many networks and other providers have substantial libraries of programming available for free. It’s not always their latest offerings, but there’s... More

Within the next few years, nearly every television sold will include ‘smart’ features, which in essence means that they’ll be capable of running these same apps. Already tele... More

All TVs made for the US market may soon be ‘smart’, but they could still stand to get a lot smarter. Basic WiFi connectivity and a grid of apps are a low bar to clear. They add... More

Another round of Apple-related headlines have taken to the various blogs and news sites that I frequent. But this time around, rather than speculation, they’re instead full of cr... More