Category: Amazon News
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Amazon Backs Off as Premier League Signs Historic $8.5 Billion Deal Without Streaming
Amazon opted not to be part of Premier League’s historic $8.5 billion media deal, making it one of the few recent sports TV agreements that doesn’t include a major streaming component. England’s top-tier soccer league signed four-year agreements with Sky Sports and the U.K.’s TNT Sports, securing the domestic rights through the 2029 season in…
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Amazon’s Prime Video Will Start Streaming Live Boxing Matches
Prime Video and Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) announced a multiyear rights deal to stream 150 events. With this contract, Amazon and PBC will stream pay-per-view boxing events in the United States, with the first fight slated for March 2024. Additionally, in the United States and select countries, Prime Video will exclusively stream a PBC Championship Boxing series…
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Amazon Freevee Adds 16 Live Channels From Warner Bros. Discovery With More Coming Next Year
Today, Amazon and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a deal that will add 16 new Warner Bros. channels coming to Freevee’s growing lineup of free live channels. They also announced more free channels would be added in early 2024. Freevee is owned by Amazon and offers over 400 live TV channels and thousands of movies and…
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Amazon Internet Service Taps SpaceX to Help With Satellite Launch
Amazon on Friday said it signed a deal to use Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets to help launch satellites for its Project Kuiper internet initiative. The contract calls for three of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches to carry Amazon’s low-Earth orbit satellites, which are necessary to beam down internet connectivity. Amazon had already purchased 77 rockets launches…
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Amazon Has 8 Useful Accessibility Features Available on Prime Video, Alexa, and Other Amazon Devices
Amazon has been working with disability and accessibility experts to design features to help those with disabilities more effectively use Prime Video, Alexa, and its other products. The Audio Description feature plays a spoken audio track that describes what’s happening on the screen. For people who are blind or have low vision, the accompanying audio…
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NASCAR’s $7.7 Billion Media Deal Launches Racing Into the Streaming World
NASCAR reached several new media rights agreements for the NASCAR Cup Series with FOX Sports, NBC Sports, Prime Video, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT Sports that are worth a combined $7.7 billion. The deals will give the sport a major presence on both traditional TV and streaming. Starting in 2025, FOX Sports will get the…
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NASCAR Will Stream Live on Prime Video As Amazon Expands Into More Sports
Today, Amazon and NASCAR announced a deal that will see NASCAR rCup Series races stream live on Amazon Prime in the early summer starting in 2025. “We’re thrilled to bring the excitement and power of NASCAR to our Prime members, with five Cup Series races coming to Prime Video each season, starting in 2025,” said…
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Fire TV Refreshes Home Screen to Make it Easier To Find What You’re Binging
Amazon has refreshed the Fire TV interface to make it easier for users to pick up content from where they left off with its new Continue Watching feature. The Continue Watching feature loads the top row with your recently watched list, bringing what you’re currently binging to the top of the home screen. What makes…
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Amazon Says its New Satellite Internet Service Will Run Faster and More Securely Thanks to This Partnership
Amazon on Tuesday said its Project Kuiper satellite-based internet service will get a big helping hand from its Amazon Web Services division, enabling the service to run faster and more securely. Amazon Web Services, or AWS, powers websites and cloud services around the world, and is quietly the most profitable part of the retail giant.…
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Amazon’s Freevee Adds Bloomberg TV+ & Bloomberg Originals Channels
Today, Amazon and Bloomberg announced a deal that will add Bloomberg TV+ and Bloomberg Originals to Freevee’s growing lineup of free live channels. Amazon’s Freevee is available on Roku, Fire TV, the web, iOS, Android, and more. With these channels, you will find Bloomberg’s premium video content, global business coverage and analysis on Bloomberg TV+…