Amazon has a new three-year deal to stream the NFL's 'Thursday Night Football' telecasts, which includes the rights to an exclusive game in the 2020 season.
Viewers hungry for live sports tuned in across four networks Thursday, with an average of 15.6 million viewers watching the selection of college players.
The exclusive 2020 game included in the new deal will be a Saturday contest in the second half of the season, which will air on TV only in the two local broadcast markets of the teams that play. It will be the first streaming-only NFL contest since Yahoo had exclusive rights to a 2017 game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens in London.
Yahoo reportedly paid $20 million for the rights to the game. Amazon did not have any exclusive games in its previous NFL pacts.
Amazon is considered a strong contender for such a streaming package if the NFL makes one available. The company has been getting more involved in the sports TV business asBefore the start of the 2020 season was delayed by the
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