Charter Communications and Amazon have reached a new distribution agreement that involves offering Fire TV users access to the Spectrum TV app.
The app will be available as a free download in the Amazon App Store for Fire TV devices starting April 15, the companies said on Tuesday. The Spectrum TV app allows subscribers to watch the same pay TV channels available in their Spectrum packages over streaming.
“The Spectrum TV App is designed to fit seamlessly into how customers stream TV today,” said Elena Ritchie, the Senior Vice President of Video at Spectrum. “Making it available on Amazon Fire TV devices will give our customers even more flexibility to access their Spectrum TV service on the streaming platforms they use every day.”
The addition of Fire TV allows Charter to reach Spectrum subscribers who prefer that platform over others. The app is already available in the app stores for Apple TV devices, Android TV (Google TV) and Roku, and on phones and tablets.
For Amazon, the integration aligns with its ongoing effort to position Fire TV as a central hub for live and on-demand content aggregation, including traditional pay TV services.
“Our mission at Fire TV is to get customers to the content they want fast, and we’re super excited to add Spectrum TV to the Fire TV experience,” Aidan Marcuss, the Vice President of Fire TV at Amazon, said in a statement. “Spectrum customers will now soon be able to access the Spectrum TV App on a wide range of smart, powerful and fast Fire TV devices.”
