Amazon, Fox TV reach distribution deal for local news
Frederick M. Brown

Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Fox Television Stations (NASDAQ:FOX) (NASDAQ:FOXA) have reached a content distribution deal that will spread Fox's local news content further across Amazon devices.
FTS is offering 17 local free ad-supported TV channels through the Amazon News app on Fire TV and Echo Show devices (one from each market covered by FTS).

It's an expansion of a March 2022 deal that moved LiveNow from Fox and Fox Soul FAST channels onto Amazon devices, and was further widened with five news stations in December.
Amazon notes Echo Show users can watch local news channels in 250 cities from more than 300 local news providers.
The local-news news was overshadowed Wednesday by the national Fox News' $788M settlement of Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6B defamation case against the network over false claims tied to the 2020 U.S. election.