Washington Post shuts down free streaming channel
The front of the Washington Post’s former headquarters. (Photo by Michael Fleischhacker via Wikimedia Commons)
The Washington Post has thrown in the towel on its streaming television aspirations.
The newspaper shut down its free, ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) channel earlier this month, pulling it from a number of leading platforms and allowing its contract with Amagi to expire, The Desk learned this week.
No reason was given for the winding down of the channel, which offered short video packages of top stories and replays of Washington Post-produced documentaries alongside an “L-bar” style ticker of headlines and a Qr code to the daily electronic edition of the newspaper.
Washington Post TV originally launched on Amazon’s free streaming platform Freevee in May 2023. In a statement at the time, Washington Post Director of Video Micah Gelman said the Fast channel would allow the newspaper to “reach audiences who are increasingly looking...
The Washington Post has thrown in the towel on its streaming television aspirations.
The newspaper shut down its free, ad-supported streaming TV (Fast) channel earlier this month, pulling it from a number of leading platforms and allowing its contract with Amagi to expire, The Desk learned this week.
No reason was given for the winding down of the channel, which offered short video packages of top stories and replays of Washington Post-produced documentaries alongside an “L-bar” style ticker of headlines and a Qr code to the daily electronic edition of the newspaper.
Washington Post TV originally launched on Amazon’s free streaming platform Freevee in May 2023. In a statement at the time, Washington Post Director of Video Micah Gelman said the Fast channel would allow the newspaper to “reach audiences who are increasingly looking...
- 3/20/2025
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
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