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From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

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I'm joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times. Hello, John. Hello, Kim.

So John, Amazon is in the news a lot lately in the media world. Amazon has announced a new TV set-top box getting into a place that has been occupied by Apple TV and Roku, and to some extent Google is trying.

They are going to have a set-top box.

They have just picked a bunch of TV shows.

I'll call them TV shows of shows from a batch of pilots that they were testing.

They have just picked them up and announced they're going to be series.

And they have just swiped 24, the old Fox series from Netflix.

That is now going to be all on Amazon.

So they are throwing down.

Yeah, it all kind of comes together in one way.

And you look at 24, 192 episodes of that show.

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