A newcomer on the election night broadcasting scene, Amazon Prime’s “Election Night Live” with Brian Williams, is a novel effort to disrupt the big-network monopoly on unpacking race results. “Election Night Live With Brian Williams has some budget tech,” one user wrote on X, in a jab at the household-sized TV powering state-by-state analysis. Media commentator Max Tani of Semafor …
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Former NBC News star Brian Williams is finalizing a deal to anchor live coverage of the presidential election results for Amazon’s Prime Video, in the streamer’s first attempt at live news coverage, according to two people familiar with the plan. He would be in his comfort zone at Prime Video, as he led NBC’s presidential election night programs in 2008 …
It was 2:30 p.m. in Toronto when Brian Williams hopped on the phone call, which meant it was 1:30 in Winnipeg, 12:30 in Edmonton and still only 11:30 a.m. in Victoria. Now is a good time just to be able to step back and enjoy life with the grandchildren, the family.’ “It’s the right time for me.” Williams is scheduled …
