the National Football League renews agreement to broadcast live Thursday night football games on Amazon Primewhich also puts Tic users in the public.
Under the agreement, 11 NFL games on Thursday nights, broadcast by FOX, will be streamed live on Amazon Prime and Amazon-owned Twitch. (They will also appear on the NFL Network and in Spanish on deported fox.) Twitch users won’t need an Amazon Prime membership to view the games.
The NFL started streaming select games on Amazon Prime last year. His first Amazon stream in 2017 drew 372,000 concurrent viewers, more than 100,000 more than average Twitter live broadcasts of TNF games drawn the previous year. Live games will be available to Prime viewers in the US and all other countries that have access to the service.
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“Having over 100 million Amazon Prime members provides a massive platform to digitally distribute Thursday Night Football, not only to our fans in the United States but also around the world,” said the media director. and NFL business, Brian Rollappin a press release.
As part of the agreement, the NFL Movies produces documentary series, All or nothingwill launch its third season on Amazon Prime today, covering the Dallas Cowboys. Meanwhile, Twitch viewers will simply be able to view live games while enjoying the platform’s “interactive social” features, according to the statement, which did not specify whether Twitch broadcasters will be able to co-stream the games. games.
Meanwhile, Twitch streamers co-streamed NBA G-League matches since December 2017. Available on dedicated Twitch channelthe games also feature stat overlays and rewarded viewers who log in regularly with a “loyalty” system.
TNF begins on September 13, but it will start streaming on Amazon and Twitch in the fourth week of the season, September 27, when the Los Angeles Rams face the Minnesota Vikings.
