Amazon touches down with a new streaming era for NFL and a boost to Prime membership

On September 15th, Amazon Prime Video aired its first Thursday Night Football ( TNF ) match under its new$1 billion-per-yeardomestic broadcast rights deal . Amazon’s decision to become the exclusive broadcaster (via Prime Video and Twitch) has meant that all NFL fans outside of the local markets of the playing teams (which Amazon syndicates out to local broadcast-TV stations as part of the terms of the deal) must have a Prime subscription in order to watch the TNF games.
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