Rogers Communications and the NHL have reached an unique settlement with Amazon’s Prime Video to hold Monday regular-season video games in Canada for the following two seasons.
Rogers and the league mentioned in a joint assertion Thursday that “Prime Monday Evening Hockey” will stream all nationwide common season Monday night time NHL video games in English for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 NHL seasons.
It marks the NHL’s first unique broadcast take care of a digital-only streaming service in Canada.
The package deal will embody a brand new broadcast group offering evaluation and play-by-play.
Each Rogers and the NHL have ongoing partnerships with Amazon.
The NHL has labored with Amazon Net Providers (AWS) to ship in-game analytics and video highlights. Sportsnet, which is owned by Rogers, has been accessible via Prime Video since October.
“We’re dedicated to driving extra innovation for followers as we carry the NHL into extra Canadian houses and throughout extra units on Monday nights than ever earlier than,” Magda Grace, head of Prime Video, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, mentioned in a press launch.
Kraken additionally announce streaming deal
There was a development towards stay sports activities or sports activities leisure properties transferring towards streaming providers. Main League Soccer signed a 10-year take care of Apple in 2022 and Netflix will grow to be the house of World Wrestling Leisure’s flagship “Uncooked” program subsequent 12 months.
In america, ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery have introduced plans to launch a sports activities streaming platform this fall. It could function a hub for followers who presently must navigate a number of subscription providers to livestream their favorite sports activities.
The Seattle Kraken additionally introduced Thursday that they are going to transfer their video games to an over-the-air broadcaster and have a streaming partnership with Prime Video starting with the 2024-25 season.
The Kraken would be the first NHL group to have a streaming take care of Prime Video for all non-nationally televised video games and shall be accessible to Amazon Prime members in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. They’re additionally the third particular person group to have a streaming partnership with Prime Video, becoming a member of the New York Yankees and the Seattle Storm.
