Freevee Laces Up Channel Featuring ‘Rocky’ Films in March

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Rocky Channel on Freevee
(Image credit: Freevee)

Freevee, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service, said it added a Rocky Channel for March.

The channel will feature all six movies in the Rocky franchise.

Amazon acquired the Rocky films when it bought Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $8.45 billion

Freevee also added a channel featuring the creepy and kooky Addams Family, now back in viewers’ consciousness because of the popularity of Wednesday, the Netflix series that reimagines the Addams’ daughter Wednesday.

Another new Freevee channel offers the Best of Neighbours, the Aussie soap opera that has featured actors including Margot Robbie, Russell Crowe, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce, Natalie Imbruglia and Liam Hemsworth.

All 15 seasons of Lifetime’s Matched Married Meet have found a home on Freevee, as has the series Nashville on the Nashville Channel.

A channel based on Spin magazine is also coming to Freevee on March 21.

And because it’s Women’s History Month, Freevee will be highlighting The Carol Burnett Show, Judy Justice, financial advice expert Suze Orman and French chef Julia Child.

In all, Freevee offers more than 200 FAST channels. ■

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.