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NBCUniversal and Amazon just announced that Peacock will launch on Amazon Fire TV and Fire tablets in the U.S. starting Thursday. The Peacock app will bring thousands of hours of on-demand movies and shows, as well as live news and sports programming, to Fire TV and Fire tablet customers nationwide. I hear the…

Amazon Fire TV has bolstered its lineup of live streaming channels to more than 400 — half of which are free, ad-supported offerings — and has updated several features. Nearly 20 programmers are supplying live channel content, among them bundled subscription services like YouTube TV, Sling TV and Philo. Newly…

Roku and Amazon Fire TV, the two key gateways for streaming in the U.S., have been confirmed among the many distribution partners for the rollout for Discovery+. The major new initiative by Discovery goes live in the U.S. today and will expand globally throughout 2021. At $5 a month ($7 for an ad-free version), the…

Amazon Fire TV has updated its user interface, and says it now has 50 million monthly active users on its devices around the world, marking a 25% increase in reach since January. “This is the biggest change we’ve ever made to Fire TV,” said the division’s VP and GM, Sandeep Gupta of the overhaul, which improves…

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. The initial dozen stations are in New York, LA, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Tampa, Boston, San Francisco and…

Amazon has expanded the Routines feature of its Alexa voice system to Fire TV, giving users an enhanced level of control in their smart-home entertainment experience. Routines, which were introduced in 2017, tie multiple actions to a single voice command. With the new setup, for example, Amazon FireTV users can say…

HBO Max has filled in a major gap in its distribution scheme, setting a deal with Amazon Fire TV to make the streaming service available in more than 40 million U.S. homes, starting Tuesday. The WarnerMedia offering, which debuted May 27, had been activated by 8.6 million customers as of September 30. Most of those…

Amazon unveiled a host of new products and features Thursday, including a new Echo Show model with Netflix and a swiveling screen, a Ring car camera that can record encounters with police, and beefed-up Fire TV devices. During a 45-minute recorded video presentation, Amazon executives introduced an array of…

Disney’s “Premier Access” release today of Mulan is available for purchase within the Disney+ app on Amazon Fire TV and Fire Tablet devices, the companies said, as a result of an eleventh-hour deal. No details were released about the pact, but it closes an important gap in terms of enabling payments for Disney+…

Amazon Fire TV is expanding its year-old effort to promote live programming, adding Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV and Sling TV to its showcase for live fare. The three major services, which together account for the majority of virtual MVPD subscriptions in the U.S., will join nearly 20 other integrated apps with live…

Amazon has released select numbers and trends on streaming behavior during COVID-19 on its Fire TV platform. Fitness apps in the company’s global and U.S. app stores are seeing a 40% average increase in usage on Fire TV, with Peloton up 100% in active customers and length of average view time. Family programming is…

The lure of streaming may be the ability to watch what you want on demand, but for sports and other programming best experienced live, Amazon Fire TV is introducing a new enhancement to its platform. The “Live” tab, which is currently rolling out on Fire devices and smart TVs, is next to “Home” in the main navigation…