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Amazon in Talks With Brian Williams to Host Election-Night Special (EXCLUSIVE)
Amazon is exploring an election-night special that would be anchored by former NBC News and MSNBC veteran Brian Williams
Many media companies see a presidential election cycle as a time to win new viewers and capture a larger share of advertising dollars, as the race for the White House generates interest beyond the typical news aficionado. Big advertisers still crave large, simultaneous audiences, like the kind that tune in football games, awards shows and series finales, and will pay more to get their pitches in front of such crowds. He ran into some headwinds after a “Nightly News” broadcast on January 30, 2015, when he repeated a claim he had made that a Chinook helicopter he was traveling in while on a reporting trip to Iraq was hit by enemy fire and forced down.
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