Amazon’s election coverage plan engendered lots of TV industry chatter when it was first reported by Puck and Variety over the weekend.
The notion of a Big Tech heavyweight distributing its own election night TV show would have been hard to imagine a decade ago.
Williams, 65, is a product of broadcast TV who led NBC’s election night coverage in 2008 and 2012.
The Amazon election event – which has yet to be named – will be his first major project since signing off MSNBC three years ago.
If election night morphs into something like election week, as it did in 2020, it remains to be determined whether Amazon’s live coverage would continue.
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