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Amazon Prime viewers will have to pay licence fee to watch live TV despite absence of BBC

on May 30, 2017 | 0 comments

By Jessica Goodfellow

Viewers of Amazon‘s live TV service Amazon Channels, which includes content from ITV, Discovery and Eurosport, will have to pay the TV licence fee despite the fact BBC content is absent from the catalogue.

The new service, offering Prime subscribers live TV and sports on its video platform for the first time in Europe, was announced last week (23 May).

UK law requires all users of live television to buy a licence even if it is being streamed over the internet rather than using terrestrial, the Financial Times reported.

It means Prime users will have Read full story ›

Source: The Drum