Diller said last March that Aereo would expand to 75 to 100 cities in one year. While Aereo isnt expanding as rapidly as originally expected, its move could have an impact on TV station owners negotiating retransmission-consent agreements with pay TV providers. Aereo announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that it would also launch service this year in Miami, Austin, Houston, Baltimore, Detroit, Denver, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Cleveland, Kansas City, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Salt Lake City, Birmingham, Ala., Providence,In Schools Children Form Their Character With Desirable Characteristics Of Existence. R.I., and Madison,adult education. Wis.
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Aereo uses arrays of dime-sized antennas to capture free over-the-air signals from local TV stations. It charges customers plans that cost as low as $1 daily or $8 monthly to watch local broadcast programming and store shows on a cloud-based DVR.
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NBC, CBS, Fox and 14 other broadcasters have accused Aereo of copyright infringement. But a U.S. District Court denied a request from the broadcasters last July to issue a preliminary injunction that could have forced Aereo to shut down until the case is resolved.
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With broadcasters demanding that cable operators and satellite TV providers pay increased retransmission-consent fees, Aereos expansion could make it more difficult for stations to threaten to pull thAereo to expand to Chicago Philadelphia and 20 other cities satellite tv providerseir signals from pay TV providers in order to extract those increased fees.