Amazon Mulls Launch of Standalone TV Service

Amazon is said to be considering creating its own live online TV service.

The tech and commerce giant has already reached out to CBS and NBCUniversal about including their channels, according to a new report in Bloomberg.

Talks are preliminary, though the potential service would put Amazon in direct competition with providers like AT&T and Comcast.

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An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.

It’s unclear how a live TV service would fit with the other plans the tech giant already has in store.

The company also recently got into the original programming game, launching its first show, “Alpha House,” in 2013. Upcoming original programming include “Man in the High Castle,” Bryan Cranston‘s “Sneaky Pete” and an untitled series from Woody Allen, the first TV project from the legendary film director.

Comedy “Transparent” won five Primetime Emmy Awards in September, the first Emmys for an Amazon original series.

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Amazon also recently added the ability to download movies and TV shows for offline viewing for Prime members via the Amazon Video app.

9 Outtakes From 'Transparent' Star Jeffrey Tambor's Emmy Wrap Magazine Cover Shoot (Photos)

"At 70 years old, I was given the greatest role of my career. I was also given one of the greatest responsibilities of my personal life. So I have to do it right."
Corina Marie Howell
"I think [the character Maura is] a better parent now than she was as Mort ... the lesson of being authentic and going for freedom generates a very good thing in the kids."
Corina Marie Howell
"My acting teacher said, 'Act as if your life depends on it.' And here, lives are dependent on this."
Corina Marie Howell
"There is phobia, there is hatred, there is absolute danger. We hear about it all the time. There's suicide."
Corina Marie Howell
"I would say that I had a nervosity and an insistent self-tapping on my shoulder at all time ... When I come out to my eldest daughter [in the show], I was shaking. I was throw-up nervous ..."
"Transparent" showrunner Jill Soloway: "Maura unleashes this beautiful thing in [Jeffrey]. He's always reminded me of my parents, just being Jewy, soft, funny, sweet, vulnerable."
Tambor with TheWrap Editor-in-Chief Sharon Waxman
"The subject matter [of 'Transparent'] needs light and love and understanding."
"Did I know what I was getting into? You don't really think that way. But I remember many times talking to Jill. We'd be in the middle of a scene, and I would say, 'Oh, this is so big.'"

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