Aereo officially files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

As a reminder, Aereo built a series of antenna farms to gather local US TV broadcasts, then attempted to build a business based on rebroadcasting those signals over the net.

But we encountered significant challenges from the incumbent media companies.

While we had significant victories in the federal district courts in New York and Boston and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the reversal of the Second Circuit decision in June by the U.S. Supreme Court has proven difficult to overcome. The U.S. Supreme Court decision effectively changed the laws that had governed Aereo’s technology, creating regulatory and legal uncertainty. And while our team has focused its energies on exploring every path forward available to us, without that clarity, the challenges have proven too difficult to overcome.

Accordingly, today, we filed for Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings.

You can read the full letter from Aereo on their new front page.