Amazon Prime Video may very well be moving into the reside information enterprise, if just for one evening.
Variety studies that the corporate is in talks with longtime NBC and MSNBC information anchor Brian Williams to host a reside Election Night particular, competing with extra conventional TV information broadcasts to supply non-partisan protection of the U.S. presidential election as outcomes are available in.
While Amazon, like different companies, constructed its streaming enterprise round on-demand exhibits and films, it has been shifting into reside programming, most notably with its Thursday evening NFL broadcasts. (Even Netflix, whose executives had constantly mentioned they concerned about bidding for reside sports activities rights, introduced a cope with the WWE in January.)
Amazon didn’t instantly reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark. Variety says the corporate will not be planning to create common information programming and is as an alternative treating this as a one-off.
