Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021

At the end of a record-setting year of news consumption, Amazon Fire TV said local TV stations in 12 U.S. cities will be added to Amazon's news app, with another 90 on deck for 2021. From a report: The initial dozen stations are in New York, LA, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Tampa, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle. The roster includes CBSN Chicago, ABC7/WABC-TV New York, KIRO7 Seattle, and News 12 New York. In a year marked by Covid-19, a presidential election and racial unrest, overall news consumption has surged 48%, according to Nielsen. Amazon's news app offers free live and on-demand news from ABC News Live, CBS News, Reuters, Cheddar and other providers. The ad-supported app is built into Fire TV streaming media players and smart TVs in the U.S. Local broadcast stations have faced major challenges during the streaming boom, as the pay-TV bundle shrinks and viewership and ad revenues continue to decline. Due to a number of technological and industry-relations issues, most large station groups have not put station signals online in a coordinated fashion, though they stream select content on social media or their own websites.

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[cayenne8]

Geez, with all the crap going on, I've gotten to where pretty much the ONLY news I watch is local, and only to get the weather forecast for the most part.

I used to be a political TV junkie...I watched and recorded. all the Sunday morning news shows and watched them.

I used to switch around between MSNBC, Fox, CNN and the like to see what everyone was saying etc.

But with pandemic, vitriol of politics, riots, etc.

It was just too much really and I found myself just yelling "Fuck You" at the screen way too o

My local news got taken over by Sinclair Media

[rsilvergun]

or Fox, I can't tell which, but it's eerie to watch as it's like watching Fox News. I think they stopped short of running "Stop The Steal" pieces but I'd already given up on it by then and just go to various websites instead now.

Struggling, but worth more?

[Lije Baley]

So how is that also the local station programming is supposed to be worth more to satellite services, as in the current Dish/DirecTV vs. Tegna standoff?

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[omnichad]

Local station programming isn't worth all that much. It's just the only way to get prime time content from the Big 4 networks on cable.

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[The New Guy 2.0]

Did you forget the Big 4 are over-the-air in most areas...

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[omnichad]

And yet they want big bucks to get carried on cable/satellite.

Fuck the Interent

[AndyKron]

I'm about ready to pull the plug on the Internet. It was fun until everybody ruined it. Now, you can't even read a news article without ending up wanting to punch the monitor with all the popups and flashing bullshit going on.

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[Iamthecheese]

Get ublock origin for Chrome> [google.com] or ublock origin for Firefox [mozilla.org].

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[rowls]

Why don't you pick a news source or two and subscribe. Yes, that means actually pay them every month. The popups and flashing bullshit will all go away, you will get to read a selection of real journalism instead of endless pages of click-bait, and you won't damage your hand or your monitor.

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[c-A-d]

Dailywire is only $10/mo and you can learn how to spell "Klavan".

Re: Fuck the Interent

[Malays2 bowman]

I've been noticing this too. But don't expect the javashit developers to back off or slow down in adding more and more user hostile 'features' to browsers. If anything, they will figure out ways to make things worse for us.

They are firmly in bed with the enemy, thus they are the enemy. How do they sleep at night? On a matress stuffed with money from the bad guys they serve.

Plugins like Ublock Origin and one button Javashit togglers are our friend, but how long will they be effective? Javashit/web sites alre

How is this not like Aereo?

[Biff98]

How is Amazon getting around the retransmission consent thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

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[craighansen]

Presumably by getting retransmission consent.

Local news

[Iamthecheese]

Good old local news [youtube.com]. Fresh stories about local events, with none of that canned propaganda you get elsewhere.

Cut out the middle man

[peterww]

Can we just put on a 24/7 program of people in either a blue or red suit just screaming at each other?

One segment of the program (the "rouH sweN") can be an image of Death reading off two lists. The first list contains how many ways you're might die tomorrow, and the second list is the probability of death... but before reading them, Death stumbles and jumbles the lists.

Another segment can just be an hour long feed of someone doom-scrolling Facebook.

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"Fire TV" eh

[apilosov]

"Amazon Fire TV said local TV stations in 12 U.S. cities will be added to Amazon's news app"
"In a year marked by Covid-19, a presidential election and racial unrest"

Given the choice of cities, the "Fire TV" might live up to its name

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[c-A-d]

One of my projects for the winter break is to replace my roku and fire TV with a RPi. Not sure how that's gonna work, but I'll give it a whirl anyhow.

Nope

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

"Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021"

Nope, still not interested.