ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox got a step closer today to shutting down Alki David’s online streaming of their shows. Judge George Wu on Thursday granted the networks their mutually desired tentative preliminary injunction against the digital entrepreneur’s Aereokiller service.
While Barry Diller was at SXSW in Austin, Texas, relishing a fight with broadcasters, his lawyers back in New York were busy filing a legal response to a lawsuit brought by broadcast network owners of New York’s local TV stations against Aereo, an upstart pay TV service.
The video service paid nearly $1 million per episode for all seven seasons of the AMC drama, which will begin airing July 27.
