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(NFL) games on the subscription video on-demand

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streaming and

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service Amazon Prime Video as part of Prime Video Sports. Amazon currently holds exclusive streaming rights for ''

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.'' Along with Prime Video, the games are also simulcast for free on Prime Video's

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channel, along with local over-the-air networks in the markets of the teams that are playing.

Overview

''Thursday Night Football''

On April 4, 2017, it was announced that

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had acquired non-exclusive streaming rights to the 10 broadcast television games for the 2017 season over their Amazon Prime Video service, under a deal valued at $50 million, a five-fold increase over the $10 million paid by

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. The streams were exclusive to paid

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subscribers. Amazon planned several special features for its inaugural game, including broadcasting alternate feeds with

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, and a secondary English broadcast featuring soccer commentators Ross Dyer and

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(intended for international viewers unfamiliar with the rules and terminology of American football), and a pre-show hosted by

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and

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. Amazon renewed its digital rights for the

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and 2019 seasons; in contrast to 2017 in which the games required a Prime subscription, for 2018 and 2019, Amazon also carried game coverage for free on its live streaming platform

. Alongside the main

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feed, British English, and Spanish options, the Amazon Prime streams offered an alternate commentary feed featuring

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anchor Hannah Storm and NFL Network chief correspondent

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— the first all-female commentary team in NFL history. The Twitch streams offer access to the service's standard

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(along with special football-themed emotes), an interactive extension, and co-streams featuring prominent personalities, while streams on Amazon Fire devices offer integration with the

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feature to access statistics and other content. On April 29, 2020, Amazon renewed its digital rights through the 2022 season, maintaining the 11 ''TNF'' simulcasts and digital content. For its simulcasts, Amazon replaced the British feed with a new "Scout's Feed" with extended analysis by

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and

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, and ''NFL Next Live'' on Twitch (with viewer interactivity). For the 2020 season, Prime Video offered multiple announcer options; ''NFL Next'' on Prime Video, live and on-demand on Tuesday nights, hosted by

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, Kay Adams,

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, and James Koh; X-Ray, offering real-time access to live statistics and insights; and new shows on Twitch, including ''The NFL Comments Box'' and ''The NFL Machine''. In March 2021, Amazon acquired rights to become the exclusive broadcaster of ''Thursday Night Football'' initially starting with the 2023 season and running through 2033, paying approximately $1 billion per year to become the first streaming service to exclusively carry a package of NFL games. Regular season games on Thursday nights will increase from 12 to 15 per year, and the package will also include one preseason game per year. Amazon will now be producing its own football game broadcasts, after previously picking up feeds from other networks. The deal also includes pre-game, halftime, and post-game shows, plus in-game highlights and original NFL programming. Because Prime Video is a subscription streaming service, the NFL will require Amazon to have its games syndicated on over-the-air television stations in the local markets of the competing teams. A couple months later, it was announced that Prime Video would take over ''TNF'' a year earlier than originally announced in

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, making the deal 11 years.

Playoff programming

In October 2020,

acquired rights to simulcast one of CBS's NFC Wild Card games on Prime Video, as part of its digital rights to the league. On January 10, 2021, Amazon streamed its first NFL playoff game between the Chicago Bears and the

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. The game was also available on

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and

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. On January 16, 2022, Amazon streamed its second NFL playoff game between the

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and

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. The game was also available on

and

Black Friday Game (2023)

For the

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season, Prime Video will broadcast the first ever Black Friday NFL game.

Exclusive Saturday game (2020)

On April 29, 2020, as part of Amazon's renewal of its digital rights through the 2022 season, Amazon acquired the exclusive international rights to one late-season game (which would be produced by

). On December 26, 2020, the Amazon Prime broadcast its first game to be only nationally available on a streaming platform, between the

and Arizona Cardinals, which aired on Prime Video, Twitch, Verizon, the NFL app, and the two teams' local stations. It averaged 4.8 million viewers. The Amazon exclusive game did not return for the 2021 season.

Other programming

The 2020 NFL Holiday Blitz on Prime Video featured a week-long slate of original content with celebrities and athletes including

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, Victor Cruz and Chad Johnson.

Results

Game announcers

Current announcers

Al Michaels Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American television sportscaster currently working as the play-by-play announcer for '' Thursday Night Football'' on Prime Video and in an emeritus role for NBC Sports. He has worked on n ...

– play-by-play (2022–present) *

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– color commentator (2022–present) *

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– sideline reporter (2022–present) *

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– rules analyst (2022–present) *

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– pregame host (2022–present) *

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– pregame analyst (2022–present) *

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– pregame analyst (2022–present) * Richard Sherman – pregame analyst (2022–present) * Andrew Whitworth – pregame analyst (2022–present) *

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- contributor (2022-present) *

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– contributor (2022-present) * Michael Smith – contributor (2022-present) *

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– alternate broadcast announcers (2022-present, select games) * Hannah Storm – alternate broadcast announcer (2022-present; select games); play-by-play (2018–2021) *

– alternate broadcast announcer (2022-present; select games); game analyst (2018–2021) *

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– alternate broadcast announcers (2022–present; select games) *

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– alternate broadcast announcer (2022-present; select games * Paul Rivera – alternate broadcast announcer (2022-present; select games)

Former announcers

* Kay Adams – fill-in play-by-play (2021) *

– Scout's Feed on Prime Video (2020–2021) * Sherree Burress – Saturday sideline reporter (2020) *

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– Saturday play-by-play (2020) *

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– Prime Video studio postgame analyst (2020) *

– Scout's Feed on Prime Video (2020–2021) *

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– Prime Video studio pregame/halftime analyst (2020) *

– Prime Video/Twitch game analyst (2018–2021) * Rhett Lewis – Prime Video studio host (2021) *

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– Saturday game analyst (2020) *

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– fill-in play-by-play (2018) * Hannah Storm – Prime Video/Twitch play-by-play (2018–2021) *

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– Scout's Feed on Prime Video (2020–2021) * Derek Rae – UK English Feed play-by-play on Prime Video (2017-2019) *

– UK English Feed game analyst on Prime Video (2017-2019) * Ross Dyer – UK English Feed fill-in play-by-play on Prime Video (2017)

References

External links

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