Amazon’s First Live TV Show Premieres Today

Norman Weiss March 8, 2016, 10:17 am

Amazon’s first live TV show premieres today

Amazon is getting into the live TV business with fashion and beauty talk show Style Code Live, which premieres today and runs Monday through Friday. The show, free to all viewers, will be hosted by TRL alum Lyndsey Rodrigues, GMA alum Rachel Smith and Big Brother vet Frankie Grande.

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