Amazon will help make a bit of sports broadcasting history on Thursday. The tech giant has hired Andrea Kremer and Hannah Storm to commentate all 11 of its Thursday Night Football streams on Prime Video this season, starting with the Rams vs. Vikings game this week. It’s the first time two female announcers will call an entire NFL game. “Teaming up with Hannah and Amazon for this is truly special,” Kremer said in a statement. “Hannah is a brilliant journalist and she has been a friend for many years. With decades of experience as storytellers, we will be bringing a… Read More
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Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to bring professional hockey to Seattle. So the new team operations and arena infrastructure will use Amazon Web Services technology, right? “I don’t think anyone has gone that far,” Jassy said. It’s too early to tell how Amazon will be involved in the potential NHL team playing at a proposed redeveloped KeyArena, just blocks away from the company’s headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. But Jassy is already jazzed to be apart of it all. GeekWire caught up with Jassy,… Read More
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, has joined the investor group aiming to bring an NHL expansion team to Seattle, adding new financial capital and tech credibility to the effort to land a pro sports franchise a few blocks from the tech giant’s headquarters. Why this top Amazon exec just placed a bet on a future Seattle NHL franchise The group, called Seattle Hockey Partners, announced new additions to its ownership team as part of a press conference at Seattle’s Space Needle on Wednesday that included Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. Jassy joined Amazon in 1997 and helped launch Amazon… Read More
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