By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, December 5, 2013
| Aereo said Thursday that it plans to flip the switch on its | local broadcast TV platform in the Baltimore, Md., | metropolitan area on Dec. 16. | | The company, which charges customers $8 monthly to watch local | TV stations on mobile devices and Web browsers, will target | subscribers of incumbent cable MSO Comcast with its launch in | Baltimore. Comcast's NBCUniversal subsidiary is among the | group of broadcasters that have been seeking a court order | aimed at forcing a shutdown of Aereo, which uses arrays of | dime-sized antennas to capture over-the-air broadcast signals. | The Long Island City, N.Y.-based company converts the signals | to HTML5 video and allows customers to store programming on a | cloud-based DVR.
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