Sports on Amazon Prime Video, sometimes called Prime Video Sports outside the United States, is the branding used for sports telecasts on

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History

In November 2016, the ''Wall Street Journal'' first reported that Amazon was pursuing streaming rights to U.S. professional sports leagues to further differentiate the service. In April 2017, Amazon began to make sports-related content acquisitions, first acquiring non-exclusive rights to stream portions of the NFL's ''

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'' games during the

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to Prime subscribers in a $50 million deal, replacing a previous deal with

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. In August, Amazon acquired the British television rights to the

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beginning 2019, replacing

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. The deal will run until 2023 and will exclusively show all masters 1000 events and 12 500 and 250 series tournaments. Amazon will be the third party pay TV provider for the ATP finals and starting in 2018 for Queens Club and Eastbourne tournaments. The ATP announced a two-year deal in September for Amazon to stream the

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. In November it was announced that Amazon had acquired the British television rights to the US Open for five years from the 2018 edition, for a reported £30 million. Eurosport who owned the pan European rights extended their deal with the US Open but excluded the UK, which was ironic as Amazon had reached a deal with the broadcaster to stream their channels on their station. The ATP additionally announced that Amazon in the US would screen the tennis channel, Tennis TV from 2018. In June 2018, it was announced that Amazon had secured the UK rights to broadcast 20 live

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football matches from the 2019–20 season on a three-year deal. This will be the first time that the league will be shown on a domestic live streaming service, as opposed to being shown exclusively on television. The deal has since been extended for a further three years until the 2024–25 season. On June 12, 2019, the WTA announced that Amazon Prime Video had signed a four-year deal for a minimum of 49 WTA tournaments in the UK. On December 11, 2019, Prime Video announced they had acquired the rights to Tuesday evening

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matches in Germany in three seasons until

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starting with the 2021-22 season. On August 18, 2020,

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announced that Amazon Prime Video had become the streaming partner for all non-nationally televised matches. These matches would continue to air on

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and

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in the Seattle area. On October 14, 2020, the

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announced the creation of 10 new night sessions. Amazon Prime Video will broadcast these sessions exclusively. On December 18, 2020, Prime Video announced they had acquired the rights to 16 Wednesday evening

matches up to the semi-finals in Italy, as well as the

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. On March 18, 2021, Prime Video announced that they have renewed their deal to and will be the exclusive broadcaster of ''

'' between the 2022 and 2033 seasons. Because Prime Video is a subscription service, the NFL will require Amazon to have the games syndicated to over-the-air television stations in the local market of the teams. On June 11, 2021, Amazon acquired the rights to 80% of

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matches in

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, alongside a Sunday highlight show. Beginning with the

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, select

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games airing on

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were also simulcast on Prime Video. These games were only available in the Yankees home television market. Beginning with the

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, these telecasts became exclusive to Prime Video. However, due to Aaron Judge's popularity and to avoid the outcry of the New York State Attorney General, Amazon agreed to simulcast the final game of its 21-game package on the YES Network for those without Prime Video access. On May 12, 2021, the WNBA announced that Amazon Prime had acquired the global rights to 17 WNBA games per season. On April 21, 2022, the

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announced that 30 games would stream exclusively on

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throughout

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Channels

Prime Video also offers several "channels" for live sports. These channels are separate, non Amazon subscription services, which add a cost on top of Amazon Prime, but, when purchased, can be accessed through Amazon Prime. In the United States the channels include,

MLB.TV MLB.com is the official site of Major League Baseball and is overseen by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. (a subsidiary of MLB). MLB.com is a source of baseball-related information, including baseball news, statistics, and sports column ...

NBA League Pass NBA League Pass is the National Basketball Association's direct-to-consumer subscription-based product that gives basketball fans access to NBA games, live and on-demand, for the entire NBA season. League Pass is available to viewers in the Un ...

(which includes

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(which includes select sporting events from

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), PGA Tour Live,

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, MOTV, FuelTV and The Surf Network. In the United Kingdom the channels include,

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, Discovery+ Sport, and

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. In France the channels include,

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and Le Pass Ligue 1.

Current rights

United States

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(2017–present) **Exclusive Saturday game (2020) **

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(2021–present) **1 preseason game (2022–present) *

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**Select

games in home market only (2021–present) *

Women's National Basketball Association The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is an American professional basketball league. It is composed of twelve teams, all based in the United States. The league was founded on April 22, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the Natio ...

**17 exclusive national regular season games (2021–present) **30 regular season

games in

only. *

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**All non-national

matches in Washington state only. *

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and

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events (2022–present)

United Kingdom

(2018–present) * US Open (2018–2022) *

**Third party pay TV provider for Queens Club and Eastbourne tournament (2018–present) **All Masters 1000 events (2019–present) **Twelve 500 and 250 series tournaments (2019–present) **Third party pay TV provider for the ATP finals (2019–present) *

**20 matches (2019–present) *

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**49 tournaments (2020–present)

Brazil

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(2022-2026) **Sub-licensed from

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**Circa 50 matches per season **Exclusive matches from 1st round until quarter-finals **Semi-finals and final shown, but also shared with

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and

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(2022-2023)

France

(2021–24) **8 matches per week **10 top pick matches and 66 second and third pick matches per season **Sunday highlight show *

(2021–23) **10 night sessions

Germany

(2021–24) **Tuesday evening matches up to the semifinals

Italy

**16 Wednesday evening matches up to the semifinals *

References

{{Amazon Video original series Amazon Prime Video original programming