Freely, a brand new streaming service backed by the BBC, ITV and different British public broadcasters, shall be out there on Amazon Fire televisions following a “landmark deal” with the US know-how large, the businesses stated on Monday.
The deal is a win for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, whose three way partnership, referred to as Everybody TV, launched Freely earlier this yr, permitting viewers to stream each dwell TV and on-demand content material without spending a dime once they buy sensible TVs carrying the service.
The tie-up will assist take content material from the 4 public broadcasters – that are required by UK legislation to supply programming useful to the general public curiosity – to extra British households, by means of sensible TVs utilizing Amazon’s well-liked Hearth working system.
“A deal of this type, between a know-how large and people working within the public curiosity, is outstanding,” Everybody TV Chief Govt Jonathan Thompson stated.
“It represents a big growth in widening the supply of Freely and due to this fact making certain UK audiences can entry free TV properly into the longer term.”
Freely’s launch in April marked the primary time all 4 of Britain’s public service broadcasters joined palms to arrange a streaming service, as they appear to future-proof dwell TV within the age of streaming.
Freely presents 70,000 hours of on-demand content material, greater than another main streaming platform in Britain together with Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV, based on knowledge from London-based Ampere Evaluation.
Everybody TV has additionally signed a cope with TV producer TCL, which is able to embody Freely of their new 2024 sensible TVs, it stated.
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