Brian Williams is back on the news beat. The former NBC News and MSNBC anchor is hosting Election Night Live, Prime Video’s first crack at live coverage of a breaking-news event. Originating from Amazon’s Culver City studio, the multi-hour, ad ...

Amazon has firmly established its Prime Video arm in the sports streaming world, airing ‘weekly’ Thursday Night Football” each week along with a bevy of games from the NHL, MLB, NASCAR, MLS, and other leagues worldwide. It’s now expanding the company’s live streaming ambitions by venturing into live news.

Turn on Amazon’s Prime Video on Election Night, and you will see the streaming giant do something it has never done before: Live coverage of a breaking news event. Brian Williams, the former NBC News and MSNBC anchor who will host Election Night Live,

While Prime Video hosts a plethora of free live streaming news channels from major U.S. and international broadcasters, the Brian Williams special marks a major step forward in creating original news content for Prime Video. It will stream from 5 p.m. (ET) on Nov. 5 to 2 a.m. (ET) on Nov. 6.

Amazon is launching an election night special hosted by Brian Williams. BI interviewed the show's executive producer.

Brian Williams didn’t come to Election Night to break news, but rather to put it all together. The longtime NBC News veteran kicked off an interesting American experiment Tuesday evening by taking to Amazon’s Prime Video to host an hours-long Election Night special that showed him using his gift of gab while his corporate benefactor