Amazon Freevee Announces FAST Channel Deals With MGM and Warner Bros. Discovery, Expanding Current Offering of Hundreds of Channels Featuring Scripted and Unscripted Series and Films
Free streaming service to add 12 MGM Channels including "MGM Presents," "The Pink Panther," and "The Outer Limits" and Warner Bros. Discovery to add 11 Channels including "Cake Boss," "Ghost Brothers," and "Say Yes to the Dress"
CULVER CITY, California - June 12, 2023 - Today, Amazon Freevee announced MGM and Warner Bros. Discovery free, ad-supported (FAST) Channels will launch on the ad-supported streaming service over the next few months. These new channels will add to the growing slate of over 280 FAST channels currently available on the service, spanning genres that include Originals, popular movies, food, game shows, classic TV, reality, news, and sports. All channels can be accessed through the Freevee app, as well as within Fire TV and Prime Video.
"FAST Channels offer Freevee viewers an always-on, 24/7, lean-back viewing experience that immediately connects them to a selection of TV shows, movies, and unscripted programming such as news, sports, and music," said Ryan Pirozzi, head of Amazon Freevee. "MGM and Warner Bros. Discovery create content that appeals to a diverse fan base - action, comedy, drama, scripted, unscripted, and more. We are incredibly excited Freevee customers will have even more choice when it comes to what they can watch, whenever and however they choose."
More details on upcoming Freevee FAST Channels:
· MGM - MGM will launch 12 FAST Channels, adding a new lineup of single-title channels which will include "The Pink Panther," "Stargate," "Green Acres," and "The Outer Limits," alongside branded channels such as "MGM Presents," "MGM Presents: Action," and "MGM Presents: Sci-Fi," which will be programmed with premium movies and series including Capote and Red Dawn. The MGM FAST Channels join "Paternity Court," "In the Heat of the Night," "The Addams Family," and "Teen Wolf," all of which are live today on Freevee.
· Warner Bros. Discovery - Freevee will launch 11 FAST Channels this June that feature Discovery and WBD studio content, such as "Cake Boss," "Extreme Couponing," "Ghost Brothers," "Paranormal Lockdown," "Say Yes to the Dress," and "Long Lost Family."
Over the last year, Freevee has rapidly expanded the FAST offering to include a growing selection of exclusive thematically programmed channels, such as popular movies and TV shows, comedy hits, as well as exclusive Original channels from Freevee and Prime Video ("Amazon Originals," "Judy Justice," "Bosch"), and syndicated channels with partners, including news ("The Washington Post," "LiveNOW by FOX," "ABC News Live"), sports ("NHL FAST," "MLB," "PGA Tour"), and music ("Vevo," "XITE").
Freevee also recently secured 10 channels from Lionsgate for the free streaming service. Nine channels are available now including "Nashville," "Are We There Yet?," "Anger Management," and "HerSphere," with "Ghost Hunters" launching in the coming weeks. Additional FAST Channels coming to the service in June include "Amazon Movies," "Judge & Jury," "QVC," "Tastemade en EspaƱol," "The Big Dish," "USA Today" and "USA Today Sports".
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Amazon Freevee is a streaming video service with thousands of premium movies and TV shows, including Originals and free ad-supported (FAST) channels, available anytime, for free.
· Expansive Catalog: Amazon Freevee offers viewers ambitious Originals, including Bosch: Legacy; Emmy-winning court program Judy Justice; coming-of-age drama High School; docu-comedy series Jury Duty; performance special Monumental: Ellie Goulding at Kew Gardens; coming-of-age comedy Primo; reality design series Hollywood Houselift with Jeff Lewis; comedy series Sprung; music documentary Post Malone: Runaway; heist drama Leverage: Redemption; spy thriller Alex Rider; and the sports docuseries UNINTERRUPTED's Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers. Combined with an always updating library of broadly appealing hit movies and TV shows across a wide selection of genres, and a catalog of more than 250 FAST channels, including "Judy Justice" and Crime 360, Amazon Freevee delivers customers the content they would expect to see on a paid service.
· Free: The entire catalog of content on the service is free. No paid subscriptions necessary.
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· Instant Access: Amazon Freevee is available as an app on Fire TV, Fire Tablets, and within the Prime Video app. Amazon Freevee is available as an app on third party devices including Roku, Samsung smart TVs (2017-2021 models), Apple TV 4K, Apple TV HD, Comcast's Xfinity Flex, Xfinity X1, Chromecast with Google TV, NVIDIA SHIELD and other Android TV devices, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles, as well as LG Smart TVs (2018-2021 models). The app is also available on iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile devices.
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