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