Amazon is expanding its live news coverage by adding local stations for more than 88 US cities on Amazon Fire TV devices, including the Amazon Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Stick 4K, and Amazon Fire TV Cube. The Fire TV update should be live now, and once downloaded, you should see a new local news section in the Live TV section of the Fire TV interface, or you can say "Alexa, read 'local' news to The number of local stations you see will depend on the city closest to you (the Bay Area probably has more stations than, say, Tempe, Arizona), but you should at least be able to see clips from your station. The good news about your local news?Amazon's news aggregation service is free (with ads), so you don't have to be an Amazon Prime subscriber to see it.
Can Fire TV scratch local news?
As more people cut the cord, it's been hard to find a replacement for local news. That being said, Amazon has worked hard to develop its news offerings. Amazon had previously added live national news sources to Amazon Fire TV and last year rolled out the new local news feature for the first time in 12 of the largest US cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago , Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Tampa. , Boston, San Francisco and Seattle. Now that list includes 88 less-populated metro areas like Austin, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Buffalo, New York, which means a much larger percentage of people should be able to see what's happening in their cities. "Local news helps our customers stay connected to important topics and updates in their communities," said Charlotte Maines, director of Amazon Fire TV, in a statement to TechRadar. “Over the past year in particular, local news has been extremely helpful in an uncertain environment and our viewers continue to ask for more news options. This expansion will bring a truly local experience to Fire TV and the streaming industry. Because it tends to show you clips rather than live video (at least in our closest metro area), it might not be the best replacement for your cable box or HD antenna, but it's a good step in the right direction. .