Amazon wants you to stay more in tune with your local news as it rolls out support for select news stations on the Amazon news app for Fire TV devices.
Announcing via blog post, Amazon said;
Starting today, live and on-demand local news will begin rolling out on Amazon’s news app in 12 major cities — initially available in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Tampa, Boston, San Francisco and Seattle — including popular local stations CBSN Chicago, ABC7/WABC-TV New York, KIRO7 Seattle, and News 12 New York from news distributors such as ABC Owned Television Stations, CBSN, Cox, The E.W. Scripps Company, and Altice USA.
While one can expect to find large broadcasters like CNN and ABC everywhere, local news has fared poorly in the move to streaming and the web. Amazon’s integration of these small news services may help bolster these struggling organizations and expand the reach of their content. The company has started with a small selection of supported cities, but it hopes to nearly quadruple that over the next year, with a target goal of around 90 cities.
Amazon launched the news app for the Fire TV platform last year, aggregating a wide range of content for users of Fire TV devices. Alongside these newly announced local news streams, it continues to support live and on-demand streams from the likes of ABC News, CBS News, Bloomberg, HuffPost, Yahoo, Reuters, Entertainment Weekly, Black News Channel, among others.
