Sports are in high demand, with the NFL season at its prime and the NBA season kicking off. This means streaming platforms are fighting for broadcasting rights and land commercial agreements with sports networks to grow their viewership.

Despite Freevee's shutdown, its spirit will live on over at Prime Video, as the main Amazon streaming platform will soon offer a "Watch for Free" section that will allow non-Prime subscribers to watch from the platform.

A new public TV era is dawning, with a milestone PBS-Amazon deal bringing 150 local stations, PBS Kids and two new FAST channels to Prime Video.

Amazon's FAST service seemed redundant after Amazon launched the Prime Video ad tier in January. With the subscription tier making money from subscription fees and ads shown on Prime Video with ads, it made little sense for Amazon to continue with Freevee, which only has the latter revenue stream.

Amazon has confirmed it is shutting down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming service, and folding it into Prime Video.

PBS is expanding its presence in the linear, free streaming channel business. The public broadcaster has sealed a deal with Amazon to stream its PBS Kids channel, as well as 150 local PBS stations, as part of the Prime Video FAST channel offerings.

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Amazon and PBS have entered a partnership that will bring content from the public media operation to Prime Video. More than 150 local PBS channels and the PBS Kids Channel will launch as a free ad-supported TV (or FAST) offering on Prime Video over the coming months.

Public television program distributor PBS has inked a distribution deal with Amazon that will allow users of the streaming platform Prime Video to watch their local PBS member station and PBS Kids. The deal involves around 150 PBS member stations that are already making their main broadcast feed available through the PBS website and apps,