Amazon will stream an exclusive national regular season game as part of the company’s new three-year deal with the NFL, the league announced Wednesday.
The NFL said Amazon will broadcast the game on its Amazon Prime and Twitch platforms, meaning most viewers won’t be able to watch the game on traditional network television. However, in the cities of the games’ participants, the game will still be aired on a local channel.
This year’s contest will take place on a Saturday during the second half of the season.
That exclusivity was part of a larger deal between the two companies as Amazon will continue to air Fox’s “Thursday Night Football” broadcast.
CNBC reported that the agreement surpasses the two-year, $130 million deal Amazon previously paid for the league’s streaming rights in 2018.
This isn’t the first time that the NFL will have a game exclusively on a digital platform. The league previously experimented with the format in 2017 when the Baltimore Ravens’ matchup with the Jacksonville Jaguars was aired only online from any Verizon-owned website.
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